Greenwich Branch held its first afternoon meeting on Saturday 14th March. It was felt that there may be many members who do not like to come out of an evening and so we decided to try an afternoon meeting which turned out to be a great success, encouraging many to attend their first BNP meeting, including many pensioners.

I opened the meeting by mentioning the sickening attack on one of our colleagues by Labour party supporters in Wigan but was fortunately able to balance this with the many good things that have happened since our last meeting and in particular local results in Bexley and Swanley.

Our fist speaker was Michael Barnbrook who is on the London list for the EU elections. Michael had intended to talk about the EU but had found his research so sickeningly depressing that he put together a list of facts and figures which he presented to us but said that the last thing he wanted was to depress people and so went on to detail his recent sleazebusing activities.

Next, our new organiser in Greenwich, Johnny Leech, explained to the audience how we need money to pay for leaflets etc if we are to run an effective campaign. He announced that we would be taking a collection and placed £100 of his own money on the table and invited others to join him which led to donations and pledges of £100, £80, £50 and various other amounts. By the end of the meeting of some 40 people we had raised in the region of £650 with more pledged and some big boxes of loose change still to be counted. I think we will be looking at over £800 for this meeting which puts up in good shape for our EU campaign.

Following a short break we were very pleased to welcome our main speaker for the day, Lee Barnes, the BNP legal specialist. Lee’s talk was as always, pasionate and from the heart. He talked about the betrayal of the British people by politicians and the media, the destruction of communities and what he BNP plans to do to rectify these things.

Lee covered so many subjects that I could not list them all but one thing is sure, he had the audience with him all the way and there was even a moment when a couple of the ladies had tears in their eyes.

In all this was a veru successful meeting and we would like to thank our speakers and all who came and supported this event and gave so generously.

Darren Staunton
Greenwich Fund Holder.

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London Region: Sidcup, Kent.

Michael Barnbrook, born in Essex, is 65, and married with two children, 2 step-children and six grandchildren.

Educated at Plaistow Grammar School, he joined the Metropolitan Police Force in 1964 and gained the rank of Inspector before retiring. Michael then worked for 7 years with Greenwich Council in the Leisure Services Department and retired fully in 2001.

Since then he has been actively involved in fundraising to erect headstones for the unmarked graves of Victoria Cross holders.

Michael is known as the Party’s ‘sleazebuster’ having been involved in the demise of a number of MPs over the years, most recently Derek Conway and Sir Nicholas and Lady Winterton.

Since joining the party he has stood in 2 council elections and has been selected as our prospective parliamentary candidate for Old Bexley and Sidcup in the next General Election, which, fittingly enough, is Derek Conway’s old constituency.

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The BNP’s Paul Golding has swept to victory in stunning style in St Mary’s Ward, Swanley. The ward has been in Labour hands for 40 years and was considered their safest seat in Sevenoaks. But the Labour vote crumbled in the face of a solid and professional BNP campaign.

This is the first time that the BNP has had an elected councillor in Kent and and the first south of the river in the South-east.

Paul Golding, known to many as the Truth Truck’s driver and director of British Pride spoke to me on the phone a few minutes ago and was delighted with the result.

“We have fought one of the most professional campaigns I have ever seen with 7 sweeps of the ward, canvassing and leafleting.

I have had great support and can not complain at all about any part of the campaign.”

This stunning result comes just weeks after Mick Barnbrook came within 8 votes of victory in nearby Bexley. The BNP are certainly making themselves known in this part of the world and it can only be a matter of time before more BNP councillors are elected.

The result was as follows:

BNP 408 – PAUL GOLDING, 41.3%
LAB 332
CON 247

London Patriot sends congratulations to Cllr Golding and his hard working team. We also congratulate the good people of St. Mary’s ward for looking past the media lies and having the courage to elect someone who will look after their interests.

Cllr Paul Golding, BNP

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The following has just been received from Greenwich Branch’s Ken Gibson…

Swanley team

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The following are a couple of videos recorded by Michael Barnbrook on the day he stood as the BNP candidate in Bexley’s Christchurch Ward.

Before The Count

After the Count

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The three London by-elections yesterday showed some good results for the party. You can see the full results elsewhere on the site but here is a short summing up.

The Christchurch ward in Bexley was a four horse race in a Tory stronghold and the target was to beat one of the main parties with a second place being a bonus. This is the first time we have contested this ward and so it was somewhat unknown territory. Michael Barbrook put in a good campaign which even won the respect of the Conservative candidate. With just 48 votes between second and fourth place it could have gone any way and we were happy to have pushed Labour into fourth.

In Havering’s South Hornchurch Ward a hard fought campaign by Anthony Steff saw him up against no less than eight other candidates including the phoney nationalists of UKIP and the Eng Dems. A great second place behind an independent was achieved and as this too was our first time standing in the ward it certainly bodes well for the future, especially given the total dearth of UKIP (66 – 2.6%) and Eng Dem (28 – 1.2%) votes.

In Chadwell Heath ward in Barking and Dagenham, also a first time outing for the party, James Webb took a respectable third place with 25% of the vote. Again the UKIP vote was negligible but if cast for the real nationalists of the BNP would have given us second place, forcing Labour into third. A message there to those clinging on to the UKIP banner.

The most important thing about these elections is that they show how well we can do in areas of London where we have never before stood a candidate. Also the experience gained and lessons learned will be very valuable in future London campaigns.

On behalf of London BNP, congratulations to all of the candidates and the hard working party members and supporters who put in so much time and effort to assist them.

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