Somalia, crystal balls and a BNP councillor

Sonia Gable | Tuesday, 13 February 2007 Source: Searchlight

Unable to put motions to Redbridge Council because he cannot find a seconder, BNP councillor Julian Leppert spends his time writing silly letters to the Ilford Recorder instead. In January 2007 he revealed that BNP headquarters keeps a crystal ball, which may explain quite a lot.

After consulting with the crystal ball Leppert, who once stood for mayor of London, predicted race riots in Ilford in summer 2009, and a Recorder headline reading "Ilford explodes". He also indicated that the BNP has no hopes of winning any Redbridge by-elections, referring to a "lone BNP councillor" challenging the other parties over "decades of treason" and "successive postwar governments' policy of turning our country into Somalia".

Leppert claims that everyone he meets in his Hainault ward tells him they refuse to go shopping in Ilford, preferring to spend their money in the more agreeable environment of Romford Market. Leppert himself seems to have become less enamoured with the environs of his own ward. He signs his letter from Hanson Green, Loughton, to where he has recently decamped.