Wednesday 21st today, and off the work at the GLA (Plenary day). For the first time a Minister is to scrutanised..... Bob Neil MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communitiess and Local Government. It is all about the Devolution of London Boroughs..... Ye right! How about hands off of Barking and Dagenham.
It all should be fun.... But No Borris!!!
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
I have been fielding phone calls all day after it was announced that I was standing for nomination in the BNP Leadership Elections. Yellow forms have been dropping through the boxes of those eligible to nominate since yesterday. The forms are an improvement on previous years with a number of security features to ensure that forgeries can be detected. This is very important as Red Fascist groups like the misnamed 'UAF' have indicated that they will seek to submit fake forms based on the leaked membership lists. Eddy Butler who has design his own signature nomination paper and make it available for download on the web! No wonder that Head Office has rightly said that only nominations made on the secure, official form will be accepted as valid.
Anyway, back to the phone calls! I've been asked by people who signed the unofficial forms produced by Eddy if they can nominate me instead. Members who want reform in the Party have said that they did not know at the time that I would be putting my name forward and prefer me to the other candidates. The answer is simple. The forms produced by Mr Butler are invalid. They will not be counted. There is therefore no reason you cannot change your mind now that you have the full facts and nominate me by writing in my names on the official, valid yellow form.
I hope that you will consider nominating me as I will ensure that there is fairness and transparency in the Party and end the back-biting and disunity.
Anyway, back to the phone calls! I've been asked by people who signed the unofficial forms produced by Eddy if they can nominate me instead. Members who want reform in the Party have said that they did not know at the time that I would be putting my name forward and prefer me to the other candidates. The answer is simple. The forms produced by Mr Butler are invalid. They will not be counted. There is therefore no reason you cannot change your mind now that you have the full facts and nominate me by writing in my names on the official, valid yellow form.
I hope that you will consider nominating me as I will ensure that there is fairness and transparency in the Party and end the back-biting and disunity.
Richard Barnbrook: Leadership Challenge-
We are one family of nationalists. As in all families, individual members have their differences. But what I don’t like to see is nasty, relentless, targeted and often unsubstantiated personal criticism waged in full public view.
I’m not here to score points or to pick holes in individuals. You can judge each of us by what we have said and indeed, what we don’t say.
We need someone we can all rally around and who can take the party forward. Not just one faction, or group. We need to move forward together as a reconciled and unified whole. Because that’s the only way we are ever going to win elections.
If you live in London or another of the big cities of this once green and pleasant land, look around you!. You know, and I know, there’s no other party out there that has either the means or the will to do anything about the massive problems which we continue to face as a nation. It’s down to us in the BNP, or it’s down to no-one. Because there is no one else!
So that’s why I’m standing. Because I’ve always had a vision for this country. Because I am not and never will be prepared to stand back and see this country wrecked. I believe that there is no one else at the present time who can effectively pull the warring factions in the Party together. I know that I have the status, the proven track record and the ability to motivate everyone to get back into the family fold and pull together, for the sake of all that binds us as fellow nationalists. That’s why I have said that if elected leader, I will hold the post as a caretaker, to allow the Party time to take stock and regroup.
Let’s just put personalities to one side in this contest and think about what’s best for the Party and our cause. Above all, we have to get everyone back on board. It’s simple common sense. By voting for me as leader, I believe the Party will have taken its first step on the road to restoration and renewal.
I’m not here to score points or to pick holes in individuals. You can judge each of us by what we have said and indeed, what we don’t say.
We need someone we can all rally around and who can take the party forward. Not just one faction, or group. We need to move forward together as a reconciled and unified whole. Because that’s the only way we are ever going to win elections.
If you live in London or another of the big cities of this once green and pleasant land, look around you!. You know, and I know, there’s no other party out there that has either the means or the will to do anything about the massive problems which we continue to face as a nation. It’s down to us in the BNP, or it’s down to no-one. Because there is no one else!
So that’s why I’m standing. Because I’ve always had a vision for this country. Because I am not and never will be prepared to stand back and see this country wrecked. I believe that there is no one else at the present time who can effectively pull the warring factions in the Party together. I know that I have the status, the proven track record and the ability to motivate everyone to get back into the family fold and pull together, for the sake of all that binds us as fellow nationalists. That’s why I have said that if elected leader, I will hold the post as a caretaker, to allow the Party time to take stock and regroup.
Let’s just put personalities to one side in this contest and think about what’s best for the Party and our cause. Above all, we have to get everyone back on board. It’s simple common sense. By voting for me as leader, I believe the Party will have taken its first step on the road to restoration and renewal.
Re: SABOTAGE OF MY BLOG
For those of you who think I might be pulling a fast one, just go to richardbarnbrook.com and see for yourself where it takes you!
Barking and Dagenham- the new One Party State-
The headline piece in the week’s local free newspaper, the Yellow Advertiser is very different in tone to its usual pro-Labour stance. Why should this be, I wonder? Perhaps they have seen, with misgiving, that a total monopoly by one political party of both the parliamentary seats and the council isn’t really a good idea for democracy. They have covered the reason for the local council by-election in a refreshingly fair and sensible way in my view:
“Tax payers made to pay after local Labour Party blunder….”
The cost of re-running the by-election because lollipop lady Louise Couling should not have stood came to about £10 000. Apparently, this could have paid for…….
A teaching assistant for a year
Three lollipop ladies for a year
55 dog waste bins
Free swimming for 5000 pensioners
10 000 free parking hours for shoppers in the borough
20 000 cups of tea for pensioners
2000 books for the borough’s libraries
Well done at last to the Yellow Advertiser! But it’s a case of too little, too late! If they had given the BNP even half the coverage they gave to Labour, maybe there would be at least someone elected to the council who could at least challenge the crack-pot ideas that Labour want to implement.
As it is, we are all the losers, every one of us, Labour and non-Labour as well as BNP Because the way that democracy is supposed to work is that ideas are raised, debated and then voted on. But how can you have a debate when all the participants are on the same side? It’s like having a football match with only one team playing.
The BNP still have a presence in Barking and Dagenham. Now we need to look forward. Because this totalitarian set up isn’t fair. And that means that the voters will soon get fed up with it.
“Tax payers made to pay after local Labour Party blunder….”
The cost of re-running the by-election because lollipop lady Louise Couling should not have stood came to about £10 000. Apparently, this could have paid for…….
A teaching assistant for a year
Three lollipop ladies for a year
55 dog waste bins
Free swimming for 5000 pensioners
10 000 free parking hours for shoppers in the borough
20 000 cups of tea for pensioners
2000 books for the borough’s libraries
Well done at last to the Yellow Advertiser! But it’s a case of too little, too late! If they had given the BNP even half the coverage they gave to Labour, maybe there would be at least someone elected to the council who could at least challenge the crack-pot ideas that Labour want to implement.
As it is, we are all the losers, every one of us, Labour and non-Labour as well as BNP Because the way that democracy is supposed to work is that ideas are raised, debated and then voted on. But how can you have a debate when all the participants are on the same side? It’s like having a football match with only one team playing.
The BNP still have a presence in Barking and Dagenham. Now we need to look forward. Because this totalitarian set up isn’t fair. And that means that the voters will soon get fed up with it.
A new White Elephant rises at the Elephant and Castle
London’s tallest residential tower block, Strata SE1, has now been completed. At 43 storeys, the 485 foot monolith with its crazy zebra striped window pattern and circular turbine top stands out for miles. Like a sore thumb.
310 of the apartments will be privately owned, with a further 98 on the lower floors set aside for shared ownership for local people. It’s envisaged that many of these will be occupied by residents from the nearby Heygate Estate, another post-war, brutal, barrack-like architectural disaster, which has been beset with problems. As for being hailed as an innovation in the ‘green’ sense, in that the wind turbines are expected to supply 8% of the tower’s total energy requirement, I would interested to know how much of this will be expended in working the lifts.
As an artist, I can’t help feeling affronted by what I see as the total lack of sensitivity and proportion that is inherent in most modern architecture. Relativity of scale, together with personalised expression of artistic detail are sadly lacking. I see brash, modern glass-monopolised constructions like this as hugely reflective of the malign forces at work in society: the state, and big business, not to mention globalisation riding rough-shod over the interests and preferences of the individual.
Contemporary architecture, indeed like most forms of modern art, is the product of the ‘emperor’s new clothes’ syndrome. We’re told it has merit. We’re told to appreciate it- like it or lump it. Because the artistic elite have got us exactly where they want us: only they know best. It’s an almost exact parallel to the current political situation isn’t it?
310 of the apartments will be privately owned, with a further 98 on the lower floors set aside for shared ownership for local people. It’s envisaged that many of these will be occupied by residents from the nearby Heygate Estate, another post-war, brutal, barrack-like architectural disaster, which has been beset with problems. As for being hailed as an innovation in the ‘green’ sense, in that the wind turbines are expected to supply 8% of the tower’s total energy requirement, I would interested to know how much of this will be expended in working the lifts.
As an artist, I can’t help feeling affronted by what I see as the total lack of sensitivity and proportion that is inherent in most modern architecture. Relativity of scale, together with personalised expression of artistic detail are sadly lacking. I see brash, modern glass-monopolised constructions like this as hugely reflective of the malign forces at work in society: the state, and big business, not to mention globalisation riding rough-shod over the interests and preferences of the individual.
Contemporary architecture, indeed like most forms of modern art, is the product of the ‘emperor’s new clothes’ syndrome. We’re told it has merit. We’re told to appreciate it- like it or lump it. Because the artistic elite have got us exactly where they want us: only they know best. It’s an almost exact parallel to the current political situation isn’t it?
Eleven years inside the BNP
I joined the party at the end of 1999 and before I even got my membership card, I was asked to become the Lewisham and Bromley Group Organiser.
Then in 2004, I was awarded the George Flaxton Memorial Award for Activist of the Year and was made the London Regional Organiser. In the same year I moved across to Barking and Dagenham to become the Barking and Dagenham Branch Organiser and fought 3 by-elections, of which we came second in two and first in one with a staggering 52%.
In 2005 I stood in Barking and achieved the highest parliamentary vote for the Party to date, of 19%.
In 2006, I was presented with awards for both the best campaign organiser, and most new councillors. This is when we got an unprecedented 12 councillors elected out of 13 candidates in Barking and Dagenham’s local elections.
In 2007, I was given a Certificate of Appreciation by the Party for the work that I did as official Leader of the Opposition on Barking and Dagenham Council.
In 2008 I was the Mayoral Candidate for the GLA and beat UKIP and was elected with 130 000 plus votes to the GLA as a London-wide member.
In 2009, with the BNP councillors and myself, we returned the highest vote for a borough/local area and won the highest percentage of votes nationally in the European elections.
Now how do you think all this was achieved? The answer is very simple, like most things in life: hard work, walking the streets, backed up by a dedicated and motivated team of supporters, talking to the electorate and experiencing the same grievances and concerns. None of this has been brought about by sitting in an ivory tower. But by actually connecting with people, and responding to their daily needs and concerns in a practical way.
Then in 2004, I was awarded the George Flaxton Memorial Award for Activist of the Year and was made the London Regional Organiser. In the same year I moved across to Barking and Dagenham to become the Barking and Dagenham Branch Organiser and fought 3 by-elections, of which we came second in two and first in one with a staggering 52%.
In 2005 I stood in Barking and achieved the highest parliamentary vote for the Party to date, of 19%.
In 2006, I was presented with awards for both the best campaign organiser, and most new councillors. This is when we got an unprecedented 12 councillors elected out of 13 candidates in Barking and Dagenham’s local elections.
In 2007, I was given a Certificate of Appreciation by the Party for the work that I did as official Leader of the Opposition on Barking and Dagenham Council.
In 2008 I was the Mayoral Candidate for the GLA and beat UKIP and was elected with 130 000 plus votes to the GLA as a London-wide member.
In 2009, with the BNP councillors and myself, we returned the highest vote for a borough/local area and won the highest percentage of votes nationally in the European elections.
Now how do you think all this was achieved? The answer is very simple, like most things in life: hard work, walking the streets, backed up by a dedicated and motivated team of supporters, talking to the electorate and experiencing the same grievances and concerns. None of this has been brought about by sitting in an ivory tower. But by actually connecting with people, and responding to their daily needs and concerns in a practical way.
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