"...at least they get your grass cut."

[mr blur]

Walker is articulate but not a demagogue, a businessman who runs a small joinery firm and a family man whose wife, Ellie, a school governor, has also been elected as a BNP councillor. Above him in the BNP's high-ceilinged room in city hall, is an election poster that reads: "People like you, voting BNP."

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Walker likes to talk about all the things he has done for local people since he was elected in 2005. "I'm getting birthday cards off 80-year-old ladies," he says. There is no BNP army - they cobbled together 40 activists for the local election campaign - and it is hard to find anyone in local politics who believes the BNP are performing constructively or effectively in Stoke's council chamber. But even their political opponents agree that the BNP councillors are busily visible in their local areas. "The BNP have gone into the communities, they've listened to what people said and they've engaged with them in ways Labour haven't for years," says Mick Temple, professor of politics and journalism at Stafford University.

"The men and women of the BNP look like your neighbours," says Michael Tappin, the former Labour group leader and ex-Stoke MEP who lost his council seat on May 1. "They are not the mythical 25st men with body-piercings and tattoos as portrayed by antifascist demonstrators. They are respectable. It's impossible to demonise them. They wear suits, they look tidy." As Tappin says, they pick up old ladies when they fall over in the street, shop for the elderly and cut people's lawns. "It's like that saying about Mussolini - 'at least he made the trains run on time.' Here, it's 'at least they get your grass cut.'"

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Yes, these peope are saints.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/28/labour.thefarright

[non sociopath skin]

1. Not surprising that ..

" .... It is hard to find anyone in local politics who believes the BNP are performing constructively or effectively in Stoke's council chamber"

... if they have the same glowing insight into Local Government finance as their counterparts in Dagenham and Barking when led by Richard Barnbrook, now an enthusiastic Johnsonite in the London Assembly

This year they did put forward a minority party budget, which proposed millions of pounds of cuts to council services, targeted mainly at old people, children and the staff of the borough’s human resources department.

Challenged at the Assembly meeting to explain how he would achieve his cuts and the effect they would have on services, he was completely unable to do so. Nor did he do any better in the written replies he offered to save him further embarrassment on his feet. It became evident that he knew next to nothing about how the council was structured and how services were provided. Nor did he have any concern for council employees or employment law, declaring: “the BNP is not going to burden taxpayers with redundancy payments”.

When it all got too much for him he retorted stupidly: “the Director of Finance permitted this to be presented, therefore, given his Accountancy qualifications, we trust that these are figures and proposals that can be worked with”, and in similar vein: “I suggest you ask the Chief Executive to help you if you want to compile figures so that you can copy the BNP’s good ideas and claim them as yours”.


In fact the borough’s Chief Financial Officer had previously expressed concern in writing that the BNP’s budget would compromise the council’s ability to deliver services it was legally obliged to provide. Barnbrook had failed to understand or deliberately ignored this.

One of the main powers of the London Assembly is that it can amend the Mayor’s annual budget. Barnbrook has shown that he hasn’t the faintest idea of council finance or how a council functions.
That did not stop Griffin saying “As Richard has already been a council group leader he already understands how councils work”."

Rest at: http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=228

Although the Torygraph still seems to find Barnbrook a fine young man.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/28/thefarright.media

The Skin

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Guardian credits 'The Latest' website for drawing attention to Barnbrook on 'My Telegraph'

but this blog beat them by a day, and takes apart Barnbrook's postings nicely:

- The police should disobey the government and pursue their own sort-of-legal agenda. He adds "A free society is one where the police can do their job the way they want to do it." Although most of us would call that a police state rather than "free societies", but the haircut knows best.

- You know there never was any violent crime until we started letting in darkies and their communist friends. "Most of it (knife and gun crime) is being done by immigrants or by the sons of immigrants who have been protected by a despicable government desperate for the Ethnic Block-Vote."

- But what is to be done with our streets over run with all these "ethnics"? In order to clean up the streets send in the army. Yes. The army. I'm not joking, that's what our man in the Eagle's Nest is proposing. To get rid of guns on the streets we'll fill the streets with... oh hold on.

- If the commies oppose this sensible measure? Well the "human rights lawyers can scream all they want." Presumably in a basement somewhere, whilst Brownshirts tear out their fingernails.

http://jimjay.blogspot.com/2008/05/jointhe-puke-thon-telegraph-provides.html

[LeftishBrit]

3. What a nasty bunch of people

It's a bit worrying having a BNP councillor as a school governor. I wonder if all the pupils and staff are white. If not (and perhaps even if so), it must be pretty intimidating.