Bowden, Spence, McLean and Potter gone - will Barnbrook be next?

Since the Spence/McLean debacle, information is pouring into the Lancaster UAF mailbox at a great rate - more than ever from those in the BNP who have finally started to get a grip on the fact that their party is led by a man widely regarded as a manipulative crook whose only interest seems to be in lining his own pocket.

Nick Griffin has long-protected the worst elements in the party - Tony Lecomber and Mark Collett spring immediately to mind - leaving the membership both bewildered and angry at his apparent contempt for ordinary members who lack the extremely subtle charm that some, these two in particular, seem to exert on him.

While protecting the least-deserving, Griffin withdraws support apparently randomly as people move on and off his list of current favourites. Lecomber lasted for years despite being a liabilty to the BNP in every way, while the Hitler-worshipping Collett, although an arrogant imbecile, manages to avoid censure despite his numerous gaffes.

Having lost Jonathan Bowden, Andrew Spence and Scott McLean, the last two thanks solely to Collett, in a mere fortnight, one would have expected Nick Griffin to have taken care not to lose any more prominent personnel but, we are told, this is not the case because the pornmeister of Barking and Dagenham, Richard Barnbrook, suddenly seems to have found himself in the firing-line.

Information reaches us, as it usually does one way or another, that Barnbrook's fake flat (the one he uses to pretend he lives in Barking and Dagenham but which is only actually used as a very expensive storeroom) is packed to the rafters with thirty thousand undelivered and unlikely to ever be delivered leaflets setting out the BNP's housing policies - strange little documents that carry the maximum possible number of permutations of the words 'indigenous', 'asylum-seekers', 'Africans' and 'Muslims' on each and every one of them.

Poor old Dicky (which we're told is what he bizarrely prefers to be called), his troubles are only just beginning. Sadie Graham, who took over the Group Development Officer role in the BNP after Lecomber got the boot, has been ordered to keep an eye on him after word began to spread about both his performance in the council chamber (which can charitably be described as erratic) and his poor and shabby appearance, which we're told his colleagues have tended to put down to a drink problem which seems to have developed over the past year or two.

The Barking and Dagenham BNP contingent - once the darlings of the far-right - have famously failed to deliver on pretty much everything in the council chamber. Attendance is so bad now that other council members tend to be surprised if more than four of them turn up at the same time (out of twelve) and, it has been noted, Barnbrook is hardly ever able to string together a coherent sentence, preferring to sit and rub his eyes to keep awake, except apparently one day last week when someone shouted 'Remember Stalingrad' at him in a meeting (again) and he totally lost the plot and began screaming and spluttering until he was threatened with being thrown out of the chamber.

Sadie Graham's intervention and watchful eye is putting the pressure on Barnbrook. Recent remarks made over on Stormfront about his lifestyle are believed to have been made by a fellow BNP councillor in Barking and he has no-one who is prepared to co-operate with him to fend off Graham's interest in his performance. In fact, from all we hear he has been more or less deserted by his comrades on the council. Those who actually bother to go to meetings regularly tried to get him to clean up his act but have now washed their hands of him and finally it was they who asked Graham to get to London to sort him out.

Dicky seems to have been in quite a lot of trouble recently. Last month saw the demo that never happened at the Dagenham Show that caused huge embarrassment for the BNP, then there was the toe-curlingly awful St George stunt (one of many such stunts that simply haven't worked) then, just recently, Nick Eriksen was appointed to 'assist' him in his job as Councillor Liaison Officer to ensure that Barnbrook actually does the job he's meant to be doing within the party. Despite these indications that he has his act far from together, Barnbrook was recently selected as the BNP candidate for the London Mayoral election which prompted a number of pithy responses over at Stormfront, neatly encapsulated in the following sentence;

'Most people in the party know that the choice of Richard Barnbrook to take on Red Ken in the London Mayoral election next year is a disaster in the offing...'

We believe this is Nick Griffin's way of saying goodbye to Barnbrook. Nobody in their right mind would consider the BNP had any chance of even a reasonable vote when standing against Ken Livingstone and any attempt to do so is inevitably bound to end in dismal and deeply embarrassing failure. Given Barnbrook's condition and behaviour of late, Griffin seems to be placing him in such a position that he will be resoundingly beaten and thus left a spent force within the party.

Just a short while ago, Stormfronters were talking up Barnbrook as a possible eventual heir to Griffin - a dangerous game to play, particularly as Griffin seems to be trying to wangle his foul daughter into taking over from him when he finally stands down a la his old buddy Jean-Marie Le Pen. Even though still unaccountably popular with the rank and file, Barnbrook will find it difficult to come back from a major defeat, particularly if Barking and Dagenham BNP councillors continue with their consistently lacklustre performance, and there currently seems to be little possibility of improvement from the BNP's former flagship council indifferently led by the man in the shabby white suit with a vodka in each hand.