one for south london
Nov 30 2007 15:42
have a peek at this
http://www.lon donbnp.org.[BREAk]uk/lewisham.html
50 members tramping round lewisham.
admin ffs tack break the actual url will you?
Nov 30 2007 15:45
#2
this is the mayoral candidate:
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Mayoral Candidate.Councillor Richard Barnbrook, the leader of the BNP group on Barking & Dagenham council, is the party’s candidate for Mayor in the London elections taking place on 1 May 2008.
London is facing a number of growing problems: crime, housing and transport are among the main ones, and these are all aggravated by continual and uncontrolled mass-immigration.
Parts of our capital city are coming to resemble a dangerous and grotty third-world town. On 1st May 2008 Londoners will have the opportunity of electing someone committed to removing the one million or so illegal immigrants living here, stamping down on crime and making London a better place for us all to live.
Richard was born in Catford on 24 February 1961 and has spent much of his adult life working in the capital.
Richard’s background:
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Art in 1985 I have been deeply involved with the theme of Landscape in Art and have achieved an international reputation for my work on both a large and small scale.
I have exhibited and lectured extensively throughout the world and lived in the United States, Thailand, France and Germany and in doing so have gained good understanding of other cultures.
Over the last seven years I have also taught art, focusing on schools with a high percentage of students with special needs. I also began my own freelance design company, which broadened into an environmental charity with strong roots in English culture.
My charitable work has taken me into British communities where I have become well acquainted with the local people in order to design environmental and educational solutions that meet their needs.
My voluntary work has also taken me onto the streets and I am a Streetleader for my local Council, which involves removing graffiti, antisocial behaviour and other forms of vandalism from South East London.
what a cracking chap!
New breed of BNP ftw
Nov 30 2007 15:46
#3
oisleep wrote:
can you post up some of the text please (or give an outline), i can't access that from work
BNP out in Force in Lewisham.
28th November 2007
The British National Party was out in force in south Lewisham last weekend (24/25 November) as over 50 members put out around 25,000 leaflets urging local residents to vote for the party and our Mayoral candidate, Richard Barnbrook, in the GLA elections next May.
While the other parties are stuck in neutral – and some have yet to even select their candidates – the BNP’s campaign is up and running.
London is proving an area of astonishing growth for the party. The BNP now has councillors in three boroughs and in one of these – Barking & Dagenham – we are the official opposition. The BNP is growing and recruiting members throughout the capital, and a string of new branches have been set up this year.
Although Lewisham has not traditionally been a BNP stronghold the party is attracting many new members even here and hence this area was selected for a weekend of intensive leafleting.
BNP
One of the BNP’s leafleting teams with Richard Barnbrook (with clipboard).
BNP members split into several teams and spread out over south Lewisham and even north Bromley. The BNP’s main messages for the GLA elections will focus on crime, housing, transport, taxes and immigration.
BNP leafleters were well received and we look forward to recruiting even more members in this area. Only the BNP has fair and commonsense solutions to the problems facing London and Londoners.
We are now active around the capital every weekend spreading the BNP’s message of hope to all Londoners. If you care about what is happening to London and want to leave a decent future to your children then come and help us!
Join the British National Party by clicking on the link above and start to do something positive. Together we can make things better. Together we will WIN.
Nov 30 2007 15:48
#4
in short, nothing political. Just a big leafletting for the election (MAY 2008!).
They have SFA on local issues and were probably dishing out that shit version of The Londoner they do.
The issue is that they had at least 20 people wandering around lewisham.
Nov 30 2007 16:02
#5
cheers
i live there and never seen any sign of them, nor any leaflets floating around (was only out and about there for an hour or so during the day on each of those days and then in the evening though)
i'm surprised they chose that area tbh, it's pretty solidly black christian fundamentalists
thing is, if no one else
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will focus on crime, housing, transport,
they will, and they'll pick up some support
socialist party have a couple of councilors in lewisham, wonder if there was any attempt at a counter
Nov 30 2007 16:05
#6
aha. I remember that from back on urban - how are the SP doing?
Looks like they have held on very well if its the same people as back in like what, 2002?
The only councillors the SP has gained recently were labour defectees and i believe they lost the next election.
...or was that an MP even?
Nov 30 2007 16:16
#7
they've had the same two councilors there for a while now, they have 2 out of 3 seats in one of the wards (telegraph hill). i think they had three at one point, someone from labour defected to them, but i think he lost his seat afterwards although i'm not 100% sure if that's correct
i've never seen anything from them, but there in the ward just next to me
i don't think the BNP have ever even contested a seat in lewisham, athough that barnbrook prick is from there
Nov 30 2007 16:24
#8
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admin ffs tack break the actual url will you?
i fucking did!
it was .org.uk, i didn't realise that it would still work with .org alone. It has never happened to me before.
That was clear, don't be twattish, just point it out.
Nov 30 2007 20:03
#9
Sounds like they were tramping round Downham. Or less likely Bellingham. Downham is a classic cottage estate, solidly working class, and doesn't generally vote Labour like most of the rest of the borough did (until the last election). Demographically it's a lot like Dagenham, but without the major employer on its doorstep. It's also home to Tess Culnane, the nazi granny, who I believe is no longer in the BNP but did stand there for them. She was also involved in a call to commemmorate the brave lads of the NF who took such a battering 30 years ago. I think it's fair to say apart from her and the Lib Dems, there are no political activists in the Downham or Bellingham areas. If they put the effort in, they will be rewarded - the same would apply to anyone taking the "community activist" approach, though I think only the IWCA would be interested from the left.
Can't see the BNP coming north of the south circular TBH, and they may struggle in the areas they target as there's hardly any muslims.
As for the SP, they still have their 2 councillors, they came close to winning 3 but not that close. There's no sign of them breaking out of the one ward, though, and 2 of the neighbouring wards have Green councillors now.
Regards,
Martin
Nov 30 2007 20:14
#10
oisleep wrote:
they've had the same two councilors there for a while now, they have 2 out of 3 seats in one of the wards (telegraph hill). i think they had three at one point, someone from labour defected to them, but i think he lost his seat afterwards although i'm not 100% sure if that's correct
Not quite. The Socialist Party has two councillors in Telegraph Hill. It used to have one, then won a second, lost it and won it again. At one stage the third seat was held by a local education campaign, supported by but not run by the Socialist Party. I can't remember the details but I think that campaign won its central demand and is now defunct. The councillor defecting from Labour and then losing his seat was in Stoke. The most recent Socialist Party member to win a seat was in Huddersfield, where she actually stood for a local NHS campaign (initiated by the SP) rather than the SP.
The Socialist Party's base in Lewisham is quite strong in electoral terms but it is localised to one area of the borough.
Nov 30 2007 20:21
#11
Yeah - the original SP councillor was a defection from Labour (well, he was expelled IIRC). The second seat was lost when the sitting councillor got a job that precluded her standing I think.
There are quite a few issues that ought to play well for the SP electorally, such as the privatisation of council housing (it's the sale of the century!) but it doesn't seem to have panned out that way for them.
In other boroughs, ALMOs and PFIs have required a ballot, but Lewisham have read the rules in such a way that so long as the council retains ownership, all they need to do is "consult".
Regards,
Martin
Dec 1 2007 16:49
#12
Tacks wrote:
this is the mayoral candidate:Quote:
Mayoral Candidate.I have exhibited and lectured extensively throughout the world and lived in ... Thailand
nonce! blatantly
Dec 1 2007 19:06
#13
if thats the case it may well be on film.
Just before hes attempt at London Mayor it transpires he used to make gay erotica films.
can you post up some of the text please (or give an outline), i can't access that from work