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BNP member: 'I'm here to stay'
City Hall
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The BNP member of the London Assembly has launched an angry tirade at the first meeting of the Assembly.

Richard Barnbrook, who represents Barking and Dagenham and won the party's first seat at City Hall, told the other members "I'm here and I'm here to stay" at this morning's meeting.

The far-right politician is facing a boycott from the mainstream parties and has been warned to step back from promoting the British National Party's racist agenda.

Candidates from other parties walked out as he started his victory speech last weekend and staff at City Hall from ethnic minorities are reportedly reluctant to work with him.

"I don't care if I received one vote or a thousand - I'm here and I'm here to stay," the 47-year-old former artist angrily told the Assembly today.

He said that if other members continued to make comments about him he would have "no qualms going straight to the English Standards Board".

"I'm here to work for London with Londoners," he added.

Mr Barnbrook secured 5.3 per cent of the vote in last week's election, narrowly passing the five per cent required to sit in the Assembly.

12:49pm Friday 9th May 2008

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Posted by: Giles, London on 2:48pm Fri 9 May 08
Any Assembly members or staff who do not wish to work with a democratically elected member should resign immediately or face disciplinary action and loss of job. If they wish to campaign against a n elected member they can do this from ouside the Assembly where they are not paid to do a job, not abuse their position within it at taxpayers expense and to the detriment of the functioning of this body.
Posted by: Abby, Croyden on 2:48pm Fri 9 May 08
Good for you, Richard!
Posted by: James on 3:09pm Fri 9 May 08
Well done Richard! But why does this reporter refer to the BNP as 'far right'? Did she refer to Ken Livingstone as 'far left'?
Posted by: Mike, Tulse Hill on 3:12pm Fri 9 May 08
If Winston Churchill was alive today I know who's side he'd be on. Their refusal to deal with Richard who was elected by 130,000 worried Londoners is taking this country to the same level as Zimbabwe. Mugabe must be laughing his head off.
Posted by: David, London on 3:20pm Fri 9 May 08
Ken and co. should be referred to as the now 'far richer' after the 'distribution' of taxpayers money to the various 'black groups. Millions that sometimes never saw the light of day.
Posted by: Jack, UK on 3:35pm Fri 9 May 08
I love it how people in power think they are invincible, then the unthinkable happens. If in 2005 you told Red Ken and Lee Jasper that in 2008 they would be out on their ears and a BNP candidate would have a seat on the GLA with the ability to research from the inside on past Mayoral financial affairs they would have sneered then laughed in your face.

They obviously forgot that it was only in 1989 that one of the worlds largest most oppressive regimes the Soviet Union which they both no doubt admired came crashing down with barely a shot fired in anger. People power was enough.
Posted by: Jock, London on 3:48pm Fri 9 May 08
Abby wrote:
Good for you, Richard!
Supports a BNP member, and cannot even spell Croydon properly.

I think that tells us all something!
Posted by: Michael, London on 4:02pm Fri 9 May 08
Jock wrote:
Abby wrote: Good for you, Richard!
Supports a BNP member, and cannot even spell Croydon properly. I think that tells us all something!
Do you think people who can't spell in English shouldn't vote - that would exclude most of the immigrants and bogus 'asylum seekers that have flooded in in the last few years. Ken Livingstone wasn't exactly an educated man and neither was the 'get rich quick merchant' and all his Black friends, Lee Jasper with his Mickey Mouse degree or the 'future 'architects',' lawyers' Black kids who were killed in the last couple of years by other Black kids (no doubt future 'architects'and 'lawyers' themselves. Maybe none of these should be allowed to vote as they have nor will ever have got any education.
Posted by: mike, england on 4:04pm Fri 9 May 08
Jock wrote:
Abby wrote:
Good for you, Richard!
Supports a BNP member, and cannot even spell Croydon properly.

I think that tells us all something!
now the far lefts only tactic is to look for spelling mistakes (easily done on keyboards).its a far safer tactic for them now all else has failed and no one listens to their 'message' anymore.
im still laughing at the '400' protesters earlier in the week,
not an ethnic minority in sight but plenty of middle class white uni students in che guevara tee-shirts.
classic stuff by the enemys of democracy.
communism has killed 100,000,000 people and theres the middle class white kids screaming against democracy,you couldnt make it up.
Posted by: Brian, London on 4:53pm Fri 9 May 08
Mike, its just a phase they are going through, many of them from well-off families and want something to rebel against or have the need to feel they have suffered or are suffering when the reality is they haven't, don't nor probably ever will suffer. It's the need to be part of a group with an aim and something to fight against, but everyone knows they are silly kids. The demonstraton against the War with up to 1 million protestors now that was something, but was ignored and we went to war for Israel anyway. The Media decide what is a 'meaningful' demonstration or not and who gets publicity - the kids are just being used.
Posted by: Sinead, A sane place on 5:05pm Fri 9 May 08
Ah, the BNP's keyboard army on the march again...
Posted by: Blake, Australia on 5:09pm Fri 9 May 08
Good work Barnbrook, those of us abroad are rooting for you!
Posted by: Bill, London on 5:15pm Fri 9 May 08
Good to see democracy thriving in NuLabourLandia.I don't support all of the policies of the BNP but the old 'fascists' tale is starting to wear abit thin really.If people do not agree with the policies of the BNP then do not vote for them or vote them out of office,this sort of childish point grabbing is anti-democratic and anti-British.The proletarians are voting for the BNP because they are sick to death of all of the lies and spin of the fab three,i also think that the left forgets who it was who took us into an illegal war in Iraq..........it wasn't the BNP thats for sure.90 day detention........BNP policy?........ASBO'
s,rendition flights....BNP policy?
Posted by: mike, england on 5:17pm Fri 9 May 08
Sinead wrote:
Ah, the BNP's keyboard army on the march again...
its ok sinead,
130,000 people in london (probobly more like 500,000 after red ken mugabes (and his convicted burglar friends?) overnight tamperings)is a lot of people,something the middle class white kids and people yourself cant comprehend!so if 1 in a 1000 feel like leaving a comment about their elected representative it equals a lot of comments (un)fortunately,noth
ing forces you to read them though,
young tarquin and sebastian are free to comment as well when they leave the student union bar before the long trip home to mummys in the lovely 'white' suburbs tonight.
Posted by: Australian, Oz on 5:17pm Fri 9 May 08
If the people voted for him, He has the right to represent those people.

It's little wonder the anti-BNP nuts are outraged, they forced multiculturalism, so it's no-wonder they have little respect for democracy.
Posted by: Jock, London on 5:27pm Fri 9 May 08
mike wrote:
Jock wrote:
Abby wrote: Good for you, Richard!
Supports a BNP member, and cannot even spell Croydon properly. I think that tells us all something!
now the far lefts only tactic is to look for spelling mistakes (easily done on keyboards).its a far safer tactic for them now all else has failed and no one listens to their 'message' anymore. im still laughing at the '400' protesters earlier in the week, not an ethnic minority in sight but plenty of middle class white uni students in che guevara tee-shirts. classic stuff by the enemys of democracy. communism has killed 100,000,000 people and theres the middle class white kids screaming against democracy,you couldnt make it up.
You're making an awful lot of assumptions about someone you've never met. Let me just clear up some of your 'mistakes'.

- I'm not from a middle class family. I'm from a working class family, and I myself are working class.

- I am not, and have never voted for the far left.

Oops! There seem to be a couple of holes in your soapbox so far, and I'm sure I could make some more. You'd better hope it doesn't rain!!
Posted by: Robert, Ramsgate, Kent on 5:29pm Fri 9 May 08
Sinead wrote:
Ah, the BNP\'s keyboard army on the march again...
Those who don't condemn the BNP as Nazi scum are not all BNP members - for instance 100,000 who voted for the BNP or do you say these are Nazi scum? People dont want the country to become Muslim, nor a place where White people are assaulted, raped and killed with impunity whose cultures don't find these things unacceptable and many hate White people or just want to get benefits from them. Am I lying? NO.
Posted by: mike, england on 5:51pm Fri 9 May 08
Jock wrote:
mike wrote:
Jock wrote:
Abby wrote: Good for you, Richard!
Supports a BNP member, and cannot even spell Croydon properly. I think that tells us all something!
now the far lefts only tactic is to look for spelling mistakes (easily done on keyboards).its a far safer tactic for them now all else has failed and no one listens to their 'message' anymore. im still laughing at the '400' protesters earlier in the week, not an ethnic minority in sight but plenty of middle class white uni students in che guevara tee-shirts. classic stuff by the enemys of democracy. communism has killed 100,000,000 people and theres the middle class white kids screaming against democracy,you couldnt make it up.
You're making an awful lot of assumptions about someone you've never met. Let me just clear up some of your 'mistakes'.

- I'm not from a middle class family. I'm from a working class family, and I myself are working class.

- I am not, and have never voted for the far left.

Oops! There seem to be a couple of holes in your soapbox so far, and I'm sure I could make some more. You'd better hope it doesn't rain!!
cuckoo,cuckoo!
the spelling mistake was the only thing bout you!
but as your so self important as to think the whole post was,ill let you believe it was,egos in the guardian comments,whatever next?
Posted by: Joshua on 7:14pm Fri 9 May 08
The BNP's racist agenda? I see plenty of racists here but not in the BNP.

Why did Boris Johnson hire a man who is runs a Black-only school to be his deputy mayor; isn't segregation supposed to be racist?

And why are ethnic "minority" staff members refusing to work with the only politician in city hall that represents the needs of Native British people? After all there are plenty of politicians who say they represent various "minority" groups. Isn't it racist to refuse Native Brits the same represention that everyone else already has?
Posted by: James, London on 7:24pm Fri 9 May 08
BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK!
Posted by: Chris, London on 7:28pm Fri 9 May 08
They're gonna crack. The LibLabCon is a disgrace. The British people know they are fake now. They are on their way down and the British people are sending them there.
Posted by: Grace, Kensington on 9:08pm Fri 9 May 08
My family and I did not vote for you last time Mr. Barnbrook - but we most certainly will next time.

God bless you.
Posted by: Ali on 10:02pm Fri 9 May 08
As an asian I am not welcomed to join BNP. That's racist. If you inde-non-genious working class with your sub-education cannot understand then be it. Your fate will be the same as of aborigines of australia or red indians or america. Sooner or later Brown and Chinese asians will hump you.
Our time is coming you filthy pigs.
Posted by: Peter Brooks, Kent on 10:58pm Fri 9 May 08
Ali wrote:
As an asian I am not welcomed to join BNP. That\'s racist. If you inde-non-genious working class with your sub-education cannot understand then be it. Your fate will be the same as of aborigines of australia or red indians or america. Sooner or later Brown and Chinese asians will hump you. Our time is coming you filthy pigs.
and they wonder why the BNP would prefer some people not to come here. LOL.
Posted by: Richard, A Last British Piece of London on 12:14am Sat 10 May 08
Ali wrote:
As an asian I am not welcomed to join BNP. That\'s racist. If you inde-non-genious working class with your sub-education cannot understand then be it. Your fate will be the same as of aborigines of australia or red indians or america. Sooner or later Brown and Chinese asians will hump you. Our time is coming you filthy pigs.
Thanks for that post -it precisely defines everything the BNP are fighting against -and for. No, Sir, you are not welcome in the BNP, or in any other civilised company.
Posted by: Jock, London on 1:08am Sat 10 May 08
mike wrote:
Jock wrote:
mike wrote:
Jock wrote:
Abby wrote: Good for you, Richard!
Supports a BNP member, and cannot even spell Croydon properly. I think that tells us all something!
now the far lefts only tactic is to look for spelling mistakes (easily done on keyboards).its a far safer tactic for them now all else has failed and no one listens to their 'message' anymore. im still laughing at the '400' protesters earlier in the week, not an ethnic minority in sight but plenty of middle class white uni students in che guevara tee-shirts. classic stuff by the enemys of democracy. communism has killed 100,000,000 people and theres the middle class white kids screaming against democracy,you couldnt make it up.
You're making an awful lot of assumptions about someone you've never met. Let me just clear up some of your 'mistakes'. - I'm not from a middle class family. I'm from a working class family, and I myself are working class. - I am not, and have never voted for the far left. Oops! There seem to be a couple of holes in your soapbox so far, and I'm sure I could make some more. You'd better hope it doesn't rain!!
cuckoo,cuckoo! the spelling mistake was the only thing bout you! but as your so self important as to think the whole post was,ill let you believe it was,egos in the guardian comments,whatever next?
Try responding with proper grammar next time.

No...In fact...Stop me. Your whole comment was a travesty to the English language! One might almost suspect that you are foreign yourself!

PRAT! And please explain your "spelling mistake was only thing bout you" comment...Double standards surely, you halfwit!
Posted by: Jock, London on 1:17am Sat 10 May 08
James wrote:
BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK! BARNBROOK!
Tit!
Tit!
Tit!
Tit!
Tit!

Getting it yet?

You all think it's so wonderful to have a BNP tw&t on the Assembly...

God forbid if they (and they won't) come to power. Liberties will go out the fecking window. You'll be hung from the nearest lamp post if you disagree. If you want a curry - the same. If you want a chicken chow mein - forget it! If you want a clone society of steak and chips - go for it.

The BNP will turn this place into such a repressed society, you won't even be able to drink Guinness through fear of crapping the wrong colour.

Yeah! So, put my windows in. Try and break my spirit. YOU WON'T.
Posted by: Jock, London on 1:25am Sat 10 May 08
Richard wrote:
Ali wrote: As an asian I am not welcomed to join BNP. That\'s racist. If you inde-non-genious working class with your sub-education cannot understand then be it. Your fate will be the same as of aborigines of australia or red indians or america. Sooner or later Brown and Chinese asians will hump you. Our time is coming you filthy pigs.
Thanks for that post -it precisely defines everything the BNP are fighting against -and for. No, Sir, you are not welcome in the BNP, or in any other civilised company.
Bend over there, Dicky!

Ahh, no sunshine. Only red&white. Thought so. As much as the BNP laughably like to be known as "british", they're not welcome in Scotland. The SNP wins hands down.
Posted by: Dan, Norwich on 6:53am Sat 10 May 08
Ali wrote:
As an asian I am not welcomed to join BNP. That's racist. If you inde-non-genious working class with your sub-education cannot understand then be it. Your fate will be the same as of aborigines of australia or red indians or america. Sooner or later Brown and Chinese asians will hump you. Our time is coming you filthy pigs.
Another ethnic who cries out "racist", but is indeed racist himself!

Posted by: Dan, Norwich on 6:58am Sat 10 May 08
Jock wrote:
Richard wrote:
Ali wrote: As an asian I am not welcomed to join BNP. That\'s racist. If you inde-non-genious working class with your sub-education cannot understand then be it. Your fate will be the same as of aborigines of australia or red indians or america. Sooner or later Brown and Chinese asians will hump you. Our time is coming you filthy pigs.
Thanks for that post -it precisely defines everything the BNP are fighting against -and for. No, Sir, you are not welcome in the BNP, or in any other civilised company.
Bend over there, Dicky! Ahh, no sunshine. Only red&white. Thought so. As much as the BNP laughably like to be known as "british", they're not welcome in Scotland. The SNP wins hands down.
Yeah, and Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, John Reid, Des Brown, George Galloway, and other Scottish communists are not welcome in England.
Posted by: J. Williams, Swansea on 7:54am Sat 10 May 08
The BNP are not promoting the foreigner over the native white British people, not elevating sexual perversions to levels of wide acceptability, not promoting Islam at the expense of Christian values, not attempting to destroy our traditional culture and identity - so why are the BNP "the baddies"? They are not - but look what Daniel Finkelstein, Associate Editor of The Times, says in the Jewish Chronicle: He thinks this BNP victory to be a calamity, firstly because “the new member can act a rallying point for neo-Fascists”.
He says “On London’s Carlton House Terrace, there is a tiny grave marked “Giro”. It contains the remains of the dog that had belonged to the ambassador from Nazi Germany. It is the only British soil the Nazis managed to conquer. Now there will be a space in City Hall too. You can expect the BNP to make full use of this”. We need look no further for the guilty ones.
http://www.thejc.com
/home.aspx?ParentId=
m12s32s35&SecId=35&A
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Posted by: Aiddy on 8:14am Sat 10 May 08
Well-done Richard, a man of principle & a credit to the BNP & their supporters. Steadfast in the face of adversity, true British moral values & a shock to the worthless mealy mouthed liberals.
Posted by: Alasdair, London on 2:23pm Sat 10 May 08
How can Mr. Barnbrook face a "boycott from the mainstream parties"? Surely by gaining 130,000 votes in London, the BNP has shown itself to be one of the mainstream parties?

Every anti-Nazi music carnival by insalubrious drug-addicted rockers, every Communist rent-a-mob that descends upon City Hall to tell us whom we can’t vote for, and every act of discourtesy perpetrated by old gang political careerists on an elected representative provides yet one more compelling reason for voting for the BNP...
Posted by: Karl Chappell, Carlisle on 9:59pm Sat 10 May 08
Having lived in London for 15 years and wonder why these party puppets are more scared of the BNP than walking out at night without a bodyguard. Phew. It wouldn't bother me walking past a load of 'BNP' blokes - I bet there would be no trouble at all!
Posted by: Jennifer, London on 10:45am Sun 11 May 08
I didn't vote BNP this time, but I will think about it next time.

Depends on who they have standing in my area I suppose. If its a good ordinary person then I think I may be putting my mark next to his/her name.

Lets face it the other parties are terrible, anything which shakes them awake has got to be an improvement.
Posted by: mike, england on 8:29pm Sun 11 May 08
Jock wrote:
mike wrote:
Jock wrote:
mike wrote:
Jock wrote:
Abby wrote: Good for you, Richard!
Supports a BNP member, and cannot even spell Croydon properly. I think that tells us all something!
now the far lefts only tactic is to look for spelling mistakes (easily done on keyboards).its a far safer tactic for them now all else has failed and no one listens to their \'message\' anymore. im still laughing at the \'400\' protesters earlier in the week, not an ethnic minority in sight but plenty of middle class white uni students in che guevara tee-shirts. classic stuff by the enemys of democracy. communism has killed 100,000,000 people and theres the middle class white kids screaming against democracy,you couldnt make it up.
You\'re making an awful lot of assumptions about someone you\'ve never met. Let me just clear up some of your \'mistakes\'. - I\'m not from a middle class family. I\'m from a working class family, and I myself are working class. - I am not, and have never voted for the far left. Oops! There seem to be a couple of holes in your soapbox so far, and I\'m sure I could make some more. You\'d better hope it doesn\'t rain!!
cuckoo,cuckoo! the spelling mistake was the only thing bout you! but as your so self important as to think the whole post was,ill let you believe it was,egos in the guardian comments,whatever next?
Try responding with proper grammar next time.

No...In fact...Stop me. Your whole comment was a travesty to the English language! One might almost suspect that you are foreign yourself!

PRAT! And please explain your \"spelling mistake was only thing bout you\" comment...Double standards surely, you halfwit!
seemingly they now allow access to the internet in care in the community schemes,
scandalous!
cuckoo cuckoo,
we shouldnt laugh though,he probobly carrys a set of kitchen knifes inside his urine odoured overcoat!
Posted by: dave, Devon on 11:16pm Sun 11 May 08
The truth is coming out soon. well done BNP - reveal the ethnicity of the suspect in the killing of the 16 year old boy Mizen. BBC seems to have hushed it up so he must be an ethnic. Imagione all the bull we'ed be hearing if it was white kid killing a black kid. But that rarely happens in the real world.
Posted by: Grant on 6:31am today
Good on you Richard!

Posted by: Ken Morey, peckham on 8:05am today
The other partys have to remember that the BNP member for the GLA was demacratly elected, as with the Nazi party in Germany it was elected. Then they destroyed demorocy in Germany and Hitler was made Chancelor.
Instead of turning their back on the BNP it would be more helpful for the other political partys to look at the reasons as to why people put their cross for the BNP. Then address the issuses that drove people to vote for the far right.
And if it matters I have dyslexia so please excuse the spelling mistakes.
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