Drunk, paranoid - and a BNP council leader
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by Sonia Gable
on: Thursday, 1 October 2009
Carry on drinking: BNP councillor Bob Bailey (center)
The leader of the BNP’s largest council group in the country has been found guilty of failing to provide a breath specimen.
Robert Bailey, who heads the 12-strong BNP group on Barking and Dagenham council in east London, claimed a drink driving charge was a conspiracy by a “higher order”.
Police stopped Bailey, 43, on 28 May near his home in Chadwell Heath, east London, because he was driving without headlights late at night. He claimed the stop was part of a plot against him and the BNP.
He refused to answer when police who smelt alcohol on his breath asked him if he had been drinking. He then refused to give a breath sample twice at the roadside and again at the police station.
In court he claimed Bailey, who is also the BNP’s London regional organiser and east London organiser, was the victim of a conspiracy against him, the BNP and “the indigenous people of this country” and that his home and phone were being bugged. The court heard he had a possible personality disorder and may be paranoid.
District Judge John Wollard fined him £490 and banned him from driving for 18 months.
London will have elections for all council seats next spring and Bailey is already looking for “as many candidates as possible” to stand. However disabled people are not eligible. “The reasons for not standing are many but age, disability, and recent falling outs with the authorities still leaves a large proportion of the membership who are legible [sic] to stand,” Bailey wrote in a bulletin to party members early last month.
Presumably “falling outs with the authorities” refers to the many members with criminal convictions. Now that he has collected one himself, will he consider himself ineligible and resign as BNP council group leader? Don’t hold your breath. The “law and order party” has always been the master of double standards.
