Richard Barnbrook goes Independent

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Friday, 13 August 2010, 17:24

Richard Barnbrook goes Independent

News has just reached me that the Richard Barnbrook, the BNP's representative on the Greater London Assembly, has written to the Chief Executive stating that he is to become an Independent. Barnbrook is believed to have told friends that he will not return to the party fold until "high level wrongdoings in the British National Party" are resolved.

Of course, it might not be as easy as Barnbrook thinks and a legal row is set to break out. Barnbrook was elected in the party list system so it could be argued that if he stands down from the BNP his place should be taken by the number two on the list - Bob Bailey.

I have just received this email that is now being circulated within the GLA:

"Richard Barnbrook AM has issued a statement declaring that with immediate effect he is resigning the BNP whip and will now sit as an independent member on the London Assembly. He has called for an independent internal investigation of certain allegations about the BNP stating that he will recommence sitting on the Assembly as a BNP member when such an inquire reports no foundation to the, unspecified, allegations. He has not resigned his membership of the BNP."

This is just the latest twist to the on-going implosion in the BNP. In a further move, Griffin has sacked two critics on the party's Advisory Council ahead of a meeting tomorrow which was supposed to go through the BNP accounts. Richard Edmonds and Ken Booth join a long list of BNP members being witch-hunt by Griffin.

It's all falling apart for Nick Griffin and given that he has a long record of destroying everything around him before he concedes defeat the very future of the BNP is now in doubt.

Murad Qureshi who sits in the assembly next to Barnbrook and is a proud owner of a Hope 51 BNP 0 T-shirt told me:

"As per usual we're seeing Richard self-destruct. In his case after losing in Barking and Dagenham where they were humiliated 51-0, I can only guess as to what is the state of his mind really is"