Luton MP leads battle against BNP

| Monday, 2 October 2006 Source: Searchlight

Margaret Moran, the Labour MP for Luton South, and several leading councillors extended their thanks to Searchlight for giving them early warning of a British National Party meeting in Luton on Wednesday 27 September.

Local anti-fascists led by the MP and councillors pursued the BNP activists, who had been bussed into the area from several counties, from the advertised venue, the High Town Club, which appears to be a local watering hole for Rangers supporters, to the Royal Navy Club in Crawley Green Road.

The exposure of the BNP's presence and plans to contest the council elections in Luton next May, coupled with the revelation that the party's new East Herts organiser who uses the name Steve Johnson is none other than the long-time nazi and loyalist activist Stephen John Brady, has shaken the BNP to the core.

The guest speaker was Councillor Richard Barnbrook, leader of the BNP group on Barking and Dagenham council. Barnbrook appears to be spending an inordinate amount of time away from his borough, where according to local reports an acrimonious civil war has broken out among the party's 12 councillors.

The BNP hierarchy appears to think that keeping him on the road with a speaking tour might lessen the friction between him and his fellow councillors.