Barking and Dagenham finally and firmly closed the door on Richard Barnbrook and the BNP yesterday when voters in the borough's Goresbrook ward decisively rejected the racist party in a hard-fought by-election brought about by Barnbrook's objection that May winner Louise Couling had been ineligible to stand, being a lollipop lady employed by the council.
Couling, the Labour Party candidate, had the pleasure of beating Barnbrook all over again, and improved her own vote by 2.5%. The BNP threw everything it had at Goresbrook, the party's bigwigs, including Griffin, out in force last Sunday.
Griffin's presence may have been a mixed blessing for Barnbrook, since he insists on operating from within a cocoon of BNP security goons too moronic to realise that throwing menacing stares at members of the public going about their business in their own streets on a pleasant summer's day is apt to be a vote losing strategy.
The result (taken from Vote UK):
Lab 881 (46.6%)
BNP 642 (34.0%)
LibD 136 (7.2%)
Con 108 (5.7%)
Ind 63 (3.3%)
UKIP 50 (2.6%)
Ind 11 (0.6%)
In May the BNP vote fell from a 2006 high of 42.4% to 26.7%, but even without the big party squeeze brought about when local elections are fought alongside general elections Barnbrook recovered only 7.3% - good news, as many observers had believed the BNP might re-take the seat or come a close second.
The fact that the vote improved by 7.3% over the May result will doubtless be used by the beleaguered BNP leadership to add some much needeed gloss to Barnbrook's performance, and to save face following the sidelining of Barnbrook's election agent Eddy Butler in favour of enthusiastic mobile phone cameraman Clive Jefferson.
As Jefferson has been in charge of the BNP's election efforts for some weeks now, as well as taking responsibility for the Goresbrook result he might like to explain the disasters which occurred in the two other by-elections fought by the BNP on Thursday.
These were:
Chadwell (Redbridge LBC)
Lab 800 (31.5%)
Con 580 (22.9%)
LibD 576 (22.7%)
Grn 413 (16.3%)
BNP 115 (4.5%) Julian Leppert
UKIP 54 (2.1%)
May 2010 - failed to nominate.
May 2006 result:
LibD 1305 (37.60%)
Con 835 (24.08%)
Lab 706 (20.34%)
BNP 624 (17.98%)
and
Cockerton West (Darlington UA)
Lab 388 (45.12%)
LibD 347 (40.35%)
Con 84 (9.77%)
BNP 41 (4.77%) Paul Thompson, ex-jailbird
May 2007 result:
Lab 492 (40.02%) averaged
Con 308 (25.03%)
LibD 263 (21.37%)
BNP 167 (13.57%)
These results will demoralise an already badly demoralised BNP membership, and we somehow doubt that Nick Griffin's distraction tactics in the Euro Parliament (where he has nominated Dutch MEP Geert Wilders for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought) are going to cut much ice.
Showing posts with label Paul Thompson. Show all posts
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July 09, 2010
July 02, 2010
BNP member Paul Thompson served six month sentence for violent disorder
One of the candidates standing in a council by-election next week is a convicted football hooligan, The Northern Echo has learned.
British National Party member Paul Thompson was convicted and jailed for six months for violent disorder between two sets of thugs. He also has a previous conviction for criminal damage after hurling stones through the shop window of a left-wing book store.
Mr Thompson is one of four candidates who is standing for the Darlington Borough Council by-election in the Cockerton West ward. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Jenny Chapman, following her selection at the town’s new MP.
Mr Thompson stood in the 2003 and 2007 council elections, both times in Darlington’s Northgate ward. In 2003 he was last with 151 votes and again in 2007 with 126 votes. A Darlington Borough Council spokeswoman confirmed that Mr Thompson was allowed to stand.
People are barred from standing as a candidate in council elections if they have been sentenced to more than three months imprisonment within the previous five years. Mr Thompson was jailed for violent disorder in 1998. He was one of nine men involved in trouble between Darlington and Cardiff City supporters in May 1997.
His earlier conviction happened in 1994, when he was given a 12-month conditional discharge.
Ken Booth, regional organiser for British National Party, said the charges were irrelevant and Mr Thompson was entitled to stand for public office. He added: “It is a long time ago. You get over it and move on. He is not breaking any law by standing, but obviously someone wants to drag up the past. Is this a topical issue? I don’t think so. Everyone deserves a second chance.”
Mr Thompson has also previously been criticised by the family of a man murdered in a street attack in 2001 after he produced leaflets attacking the three-year sentence given to his killer. People intervened when he handed out the leaflets because they were of a racist nature.
Mr Booth called the accusations “fictitious and bogus”.
Also standing in the by-election are Jan Cossins, for the Labour Party, David Davies, for the Conservatives, and Brian Jefferson, for the Liberal Democrats.
Mrs Cossins is chairman of Cockerton East Community Partnership and a governor at Branksome School. Mr Davies is a former UKIP candidate and husband of Conservative councillor Kate Davies. Mr Jefferson is chairman of Growing Older Living in Darlington.
The election takes place on Thursday. Labour will maintain its overall control of the council whatever the result of the election. It now has 28 councillors, the Conservative party 18 and Liberal Democrats six.
Northern Echo
British National Party member Paul Thompson was convicted and jailed for six months for violent disorder between two sets of thugs. He also has a previous conviction for criminal damage after hurling stones through the shop window of a left-wing book store.
Mr Thompson is one of four candidates who is standing for the Darlington Borough Council by-election in the Cockerton West ward. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Jenny Chapman, following her selection at the town’s new MP.
Mr Thompson stood in the 2003 and 2007 council elections, both times in Darlington’s Northgate ward. In 2003 he was last with 151 votes and again in 2007 with 126 votes. A Darlington Borough Council spokeswoman confirmed that Mr Thompson was allowed to stand.
People are barred from standing as a candidate in council elections if they have been sentenced to more than three months imprisonment within the previous five years. Mr Thompson was jailed for violent disorder in 1998. He was one of nine men involved in trouble between Darlington and Cardiff City supporters in May 1997.
His earlier conviction happened in 1994, when he was given a 12-month conditional discharge.
Ken Booth, regional organiser for British National Party, said the charges were irrelevant and Mr Thompson was entitled to stand for public office. He added: “It is a long time ago. You get over it and move on. He is not breaking any law by standing, but obviously someone wants to drag up the past. Is this a topical issue? I don’t think so. Everyone deserves a second chance.”
Mr Thompson has also previously been criticised by the family of a man murdered in a street attack in 2001 after he produced leaflets attacking the three-year sentence given to his killer. People intervened when he handed out the leaflets because they were of a racist nature.
Mr Booth called the accusations “fictitious and bogus”.
Also standing in the by-election are Jan Cossins, for the Labour Party, David Davies, for the Conservatives, and Brian Jefferson, for the Liberal Democrats.
Mrs Cossins is chairman of Cockerton East Community Partnership and a governor at Branksome School. Mr Davies is a former UKIP candidate and husband of Conservative councillor Kate Davies. Mr Jefferson is chairman of Growing Older Living in Darlington.
The election takes place on Thursday. Labour will maintain its overall control of the council whatever the result of the election. It now has 28 councillors, the Conservative party 18 and Liberal Democrats six.
Northern Echo
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