BNP member fails to win board seat

| Friday, 31 March 2006 Source: Sunderland Today

A BNP activist has failed for a second time to win a seat on a community board that promotes racial harmony.

David Guynan was among nine residents standing for five places on the board of the £54million Hendon regeneration project, Back on the Map (Botm).

Mr Guynan was a British National party candidate in the General Election.

He tried to win a seat in last year's Botm poll – but this year received just 57 of the 338 votes.

The five winners were Fred Henderson, Geoff Moon, Rosalyn Warner, Pam Bolden and Tafazzal Hussain.

Rosalyn stood as the Official Monster Raving Loony party candidate in last year's General Election, calling herself Mad Cow-Girl.

Those elected last night will sit as resident members of Botm's partnership board, which is responsible for investing £54million in Hendon and over 10 years.

Jules Preston, Botm's chairman said he "did not support and could not support the policies" of the BNP.

"If he had been democratically elected it would have been something we would have had to manage. But the residents haven't voted him in and that's all that's important," he said.