Barking and Dagenham police have visited the landlady of an east London pub where Nick Griffin is due to speak tonight and told her that she risks losing her licence if the meeting goes ahead, according to the British National Party spokesman Simon Darby. Darby claims an alternative venue has been arranged for the party leader’s visit.
HOPE not hate does not know exactly what the police told Leigh Friend but Redbridge and Epping Forest Together, a local HOPE not hate supporting group, has long campaigned for an end to a variety of fascist and nazi activities at the Cherry Tree pub in Wood Lane, Dagenham, and has been in contact with Barking and Dagenham police about tonight’s event.
REFT, Searchlight and members of the public have made several complaints to Barking and Dagenham council’s licensing and regulatory board, so far to no avail.
Unusually for the BNP the meeting venue was advertised openly, probably because the pub is already so well known as a nazi haunt. Mrs Friend herself supports the BNP to the extent that she was one of the BNP’s 34 candidates for Barking and Dagenham council last year. All of them failed to get elected.
Earlier this year Blood and Honour, the nazi skinhead music organisation, held an international gig at the pub which was attended by nazis from a number of European countries.
Tonight’s meeting is due to start at 7.30pm. This is Griffin’s second visit to the south east in under a fortnight. Last week he spoke to party officers and activists at the second in a series of “Way Forward” meetings aimed at boosting Griffin’s flagging support in the party and countering growing dissent.
Thanks to Searchlight/HOPE not Hate
May 25, 2011
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Any local resident can ask for a pub's license to be reviewed if there is any trouble at the venue, or if anything happens to give cause for concern that trouble might follow.
The new licensing laws effectively give anti-fascists carte blanche to close down any pub that knowingly allows nazis to meet, formally or informally, on its premises.
All that is required is a little imigination, decorum and plain common sense.
Griffin speaking at the venue change The Elm Park Hotel, East London tonight
It would be interesting to send a Black person into that pub, with a hidden camera, to see if they get served or completely ignored by the bar staff.
"It would be interesting to send a Black person into that pub, with a hidden camera, to see if they get served or completely ignored by the bar staff."
Or indeed abused by the customers, which could reasonably be said to have been encouraged by the management in the light of their support for the fascist BNP.
"The new licensing laws effectively give anti-fascists carte blanche to close down any pub that knowingly allows nazis to meet, formally or informally, on its premises".
CAN WE CLOSE DOWN WETHERSPOONS FOR KNOWINGLY GIVING PERMISSION FOR THE EDL TO MEET THERE, GET DRUNK, AND BE FUELLED UP TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK PASSING ASIAN PEOPLE??????
ANYBODY KNOW THE ANSWER?
Griffin speaking at the venue change The Elm Park Hotel, East London tonight
That's the gaff in Hornchurch where the BNP proved they are most certainly in no way fascist by assaulting a Times journalist.
The Cherry Tree is covered in scaffolding on Google Street View. From the last time Combat 18 paid them a visit (or maybe the EDL?)???
"CAN WE CLOSE DOWN WETHERSPOONS FOR KNOWINGLY GIVING PERMISSION FOR THE EDL TO MEET THERE, GET DRUNK, AND BE FUELLED UP TO VIOLENTLY ATTACK PASSING ASIAN PEOPLE??????"
Unfortunately each establishment is licensed individually by its own local council. But close a few and Wetherspoons would soon get the message.
Anonymous said:
"Unfortunately each establishment is licensed individually by its own local council. But close a few and Wetherspoons would soon get the message."
You think? Wetherspoons' owner is a UKIP-supporting rightwingnut anyway, so the closure of one or two establishments would probably just galvanise his already questionable views.
i went in the cherry with a mixed race friend and lets just say she wasnt made to feel welcome at all.......
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