Hello sailor, au revoir Griffin

| Sunday, 1 May 2005 Source: Searchlight

Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, today fled the hustings for France. Did Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the Front National, France's equivalent of the BNP, really need Griffin's presence on the annual Joan of Arc May Day fascist parade, or was Griffin only too pleased to take the opportunity to leave what has become the sinking ship of the BNP?

Richard Barnboork, the BNP candidate for Barking, east London, has already been threatened with legal action over a series of election leaflets containing outright lies. Barnbrook, who likes to depict himself as the captain of a ship sailing up Barking creek, may rapidly find his vessel is more akin to the Titanic.

Searchlight can now reveal that Barnbook once starred in a homosexual video, titled HMS Discovery, made in the style of the gay Marxist genre of films such as those by Derek Jarman and Peter Greenway. His involvement in this film is in direct conflict with the BNP's opposition to the promotion of homosexuality. Those who have viewed this epic, in which Barnbrook not only acted but was also the director, producer and co-writer of the script, say that it leaves little to the imagination.

Barnbrook is reported to have been riled by Searchlight's jibes that he only had one suit. In HMS Discovery he has no suit or any other clothing as he appears frolicking with half a dozen other naked men. Whoever is giving Barnbrook legal advice over this matter appears not to know their naked posterior from their elbow. Their threats to injunct Searchlight verge on something from the twilight zone. Searchlight did not create this film, Barnbrook did it all on his own.

The BNP's press officer, Stuart Russell, tried to maintain that the video of the film was a fake. But he was contradicted by Barnbrook himself, who told journalists that it was an art movie.

In the latest issue of his Barking & Dagenham Patriot, Barnbrook repeats his lie that his charity, the Jubilee Woods Trust, received the support of the Royal Family. Not so, says the Palace. And Barnbrook fails to mention that the charity sacked him when it found out about his role with the BNP. Barnbrook must be wondering why he ever bothered to leave South East London for Barking.