A councillor says he is furious after being warned by council bosses not to clear graffiti.
Cllr Richard Barnbrook, leader of the BNP party on Barking and Dagenham Council, said he could not believe his ears after being told his actions "contravened the constitution". He said he received a call from an executive officer on Friday telling him that what he was doing could be seen as a conflict of interests.
However, this week Barking and Dagenham Council, which said an investigation had been launched, defended its policy on how graffiti should be reported and cleaned. Cllr Barnbook said he had been cleaning graffiti from a wall in Parsloes Park, Parsloes Avenue, Dagenham, with party activists on February 1.
He said: "I can't see how it could be a conflict of interests. We have been removing graffiti in my ward every month or two since 2004. I couldn't give a damn what the constitution says. If we are under funded and if we get complaints, we will act. I'm furious."
A council spokesman said councillors and members of the public in general, could not clean graffiti from a public area and should instead contact the council's graffiti team.
Cllr Barnbrook said: "I will inform the council of my plans, but I don't always have the leisure to inform it. If residents ask us to remove graffiti and the council haven't got the funding or resources to do this, we will do it."
A council spokesman said: "The reason the council asks residents not to remove graffiti themselves from council-owned buildings or public spaces, is because it makes it difficult for us to monitor the tags and to provide evidence for the police to help prosecute offenders. There are also health and safety reasons.
"As a direct response to residents' concerns about graffiti, the council has expanded its graffiti service and there are now three teams dedicated to removing graffiti from the borough. The graffiti team works with the council's street wardens to tackle hotspots in and around the borough.
Barking and Dagenham Recorder
February 14, 2008
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Will Richard Barnbrook and his BNP cohorts also be cleaning the racist and fascist graffiti put by BNP members and supporters? Will that extend to the 'fake' graffiti put by BNP members that call upon non-Whites to attack Whites (part of BNP attemtps to stir up racial conflict)?
As always with certain elements of the press you never get the true story, and certainly the picture that went with this doesnt tell the truth either, so here is the truth...
a couple of weeks ago on a Friday afternoon Diva Dicky and another decided they were going to get some free publicity, so off they trot to one of the parks in B & D, this park is not in Dickys ward by the way, he then puts on his very stylish yellow jacket and commences to paint a very nice shelter battleship grey, it was a nice green in line with all shelters in parks, they only painted up to head height but covered nearly all the building when they were spotted by a council employee who told them they couldnt do that and asked them to stop, of course the diva got on his high horse but the council workman stood his ground and made them leave.
There was no evidence whatsoever that there was any graffitti on the walls of this building, true there was some on the roof, but could you see diva tip toeing on the roof? the council now has to go to some expense repainting the whole of the shelter and cleaning up the bloody awful mess this drunken bufoon has made with splashes of paint all over the place.
I just hope the Council sends the dancing nazi the bill. and lets the council tax payers of the borough know just what the nazis are costing them.
But like everything this man does and says there is no truth or substance to him he just wants his name and his face in the paper, he doesnt represent the people in B & D he doesnt care about the people in B & D he only represents himself, he only cares about himself and where the next drink is coming from.
Bumbrook would do anything for votes. I bet my "bottom" dollar he wouldn't clearn racist graffiti, including scrawlings with three letters, or stastikas from walls, me thinks, lol
Griffin's lot are opportunist, hypocritical scumbags.
he then puts on his very stylish yellow jacket and commences to paint a very nice shelter battleship grey, it was a nice green in line with all shelters in parks, they only painted up to head height but covered nearly all the building when they were spotted by a council employee who told them they couldnt do that and asked them to stop,
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If that was the case, then can't
Richard Barnbrook and his BNP bum chum be reported to the police for criminal damage??? More BNP twat behaviour at work.
Darby and Dicky are not letting this one go and appear to be intent on milking it for what its worth.
Have a listen to recording of their tele con on Darbys site posted Friday evening, in which Diva claims that the Council has drastically cut the budgets of the graffiti teams and all he and his nazi friends are doing is coming to the aid of the poor residents.
Such outrageous lies need and will be challenged.
Bumbrook is a griffinite sleazeball, and it's such a laugh that the rebels have swallowed his lies hook, line, and sinker.
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