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Lee Barnes: Flog female benefit cheats

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Barnes: Flog female benefit cheats

Lee Barnes, the BNP’s Legal Director, has said that a female Somali benefit cheat should have been flogged before being deported.

In a blog post titled “Deport the bitch” Barnes writes about benefit swindler Leyla Yusuf who stole £70,000 in benefits using a bogus identity. He says, “this bitch should have been flogged then deported.”

Criminals who steal from the state should be punished and face justice in a court of law. But Barnes is advocating a form of medieval torture. This is a deeply worrying insight into how the BNP’s Legal Director would like to turn Britain from being a gentle democracy into a cruel and sadistic torture laboratory like Zimbabwe or Saudi Arabia.

Lee Barnes responds to Nothing British

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Lee Barnes, BNP Legal Director

The BNP’s Legal Director, Lee Barnes, has responded to our letter calling on him to correct the factually inaccurate blog postings he has made on his blog 21st Century British Nationalism.  

Mr Barnes has continued to repeat the lie that the former Castaway contestant, Alister Cooling, who has been convicted for downloading indecent images of children, worked for Nothing British and ConservativeHome. This is not true. We ask both the BNP and Mr Barnes to correct this.

Cooling has never worked for Nothing British, a not-for-profit company registered at Companies House. He has never contributed articles, has never had a contract of employment or any formal role, and no one here has ever met him, talked with him or corresponded with him.

In 2007 Cooling once contributed an unpaid article to the now defunct “Conservative Future Diary” which was once part of ConservativeHome. Cooling was not, as Mr Barnes and the BNP state, an employee of ConservativeHome nor has he ever had any contractual or formal relationship with ConservativeHome.

ConservativeHome does not “run” Nothing British. The two organisations are quite separate corporate structures.

We continue to ask both Mr Barnes and the BNP to correct their baseless comments made about ConservativeHome and Nothing British.

Alister Cooling – BNP lies

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The official BNP website and its Legal Director, Lee Barnes, have sought to link Nothing British with Alister Cooling, the former-Castaway participant who was recently convicted for indecent images.

Alister Cooling has never worked for Nothing British. He has never contributed articles, has never had a contract of employment or any formal role, and, as far as I know, no one here has ever met him, talked with him or corresponded with him.

Our letter to Lee Barnes asking for a correction.

Our letter to Nick Griffin asking for a correction.

James Bethell.