Sandwell man says "The BNP forged my signature"

(With thanks to The Stirrer.)

Nominations for BNP candidates in Birmingham are already being scrutinised by the police following revelations on The Stirrer last week; now we’ve heard from a Sandwell man who says his signature has been forged by the party.

The names of Andrew Smith from Wednesbury and his partner Lynn Marshall both appear on the nomination paper for the party's candidate in the Friar Park ward Scott Dale - but Smith is adamant that he never signed it.

“I never signed for the BNP, and neither did Lynn” he said.

“I’m not a BNP supporter, I’m a staunch Labour man.”

The Stirrer isn’t suggesting for a moment that Scott Dale or his agent have done anything illegal or improper; the truth is that we simply don’t know what has gone on.

It is curious, however, that we have also heard from a woman in Birmingham who claims her name was forged on a nomination paper (see the story here); and from a man in the city who admitted that his father had signed, but says that he didn’t realise what he was doing (see the story here).

Simon Darby, the West Midlands Regional Organiser of the BNP scoffed at the suggestions that his party is cheating, blaming “dirty tricks on an industrial scale” for the stream of allegations.He said: “The idea that we would struggle to get signatures in Friar Park is laughable. People in the area know the Dale family, and they really wouldn’t have done this.”

Darby blamed the stigma attached to supporting the BNP for some of the stories, and he suggested there should be a law banning the questioning of nominees, claiming that this amounts to harassment.

He also pointed to the Welsh Assembly elections where he said candidates can’t stand without needing anyone to nomination; he described the current situation in England as “archaic”.

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/