They seek him here

HOPE not hate / Searchlight by Sonia Gable | Thursday, 2 April 2009

Richard Barnbrook, the BNP’s London Assembly member, attended Barking and Dagenham council’s budget setting meeting on 25 February, where he was reportedly still recovering from his birthday celebrations the day before. But he seems to have been doing little in return for his £50,000 a year Assembly salary, if his website is anything to go by.

As Searchlight goes to press, Barnbrook has posted nothing since 3 March, and that entry only reproduced the Mayor’s written answers to Barnbook’s usual batch of silly questions.

Simon Darby, Barnbrook’s part-time personal assistant at City Hall and deputy leader of the BNP, has said not a word about Barnbrook on his own prolific blog for some weeks and the only reference to him on the BNP’s website in March was a report of him speaking to a BNP meeting in Barnsley, a long way from London.

So is Mr Barnbook indisposed? Or perhaps Darby has been so busy talking to journalists, who seem to have developed an insatiable interest in the BNP, that he has had no time to guide Barnbrook closely through his Assembly duties and write his blog for him.