Nick Griffin causing a nuisance in Thurrock

posted by: Nick L | on: Thursday, 1 May 2008, 20:05

Just had a call from a friend in Thurrock to say that the BNP leader Nick Griffin was campaigning with a dozen supporters in and around Tilbury station for local BNP candidate Emma Colgate.

Thurrock is one of the BNP's top targets tonight, with the local branch confident of winning a couple of seats. It was also going to be the seat Griffin was to have contested if there had been a General Election last year.

However, I think that Griffin had other reasons to be in the area. It appears that he is getting increasingly jealous of the media interest in the party's Mayoral candidate Richard Barnbrook. After hearing that several TV companies were keen to interview Barnbrook tomorrow, the party leader whizzed down the motorway to grab a slice of the limelight.