Drugs raid on BNP pub

Sonia Gable | Saturday, 7 July 2007 Source: Searchlight

Councillor Jamie Jarvis, BNP councillor for Village ward on Barking and Dagenham council, was caught up in a police drugs raid on 15 June on the Cross Keys pub, a favourite BNP venue.

Cllr Jarvis and his friends were heard abusing police and observers. Class A drugs were seized during the raid and a number of arrests were made before the pub closed at around 9pm.

The BNP regularly holds meetings in the pub and Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, has visited.

Although Barking and Dagenham hosts the largest group of BNP councillors anywhere in the country and the 12 of them form the official opposition to the ruling Labour group, the party has proved unable to maintain its local website.

No news or future plans have been

posted since November 2006 and its picture gallery of councillors still includes James Webb, who failed to get elected in May 2006, but omits Sandra Doncaster who succeeded, several months after Searchlight pointed out the error.

The website is hosted by Lambertus "Bep" Nieuwhof, the former South African pro-apartheid bomber who has recently taken over most of the BNP's internet operations but seems to be falling down on the job.