Who Is Richard Barnbrook?
5th May 2008
Posted in: Fascism | London Mayor
Written by: James Grieves
That’s easy - a raging hypocrite and laughingstock.
He was, however the stalking terror. The one feared by the self-styled anti-nazis of prominence at LMHR, the one used to stir up voters by all three parties, the one who made all sources beg to get out the vote and dilute the power of a hard-core of racists. He was also the one that filled me with horror and shock when it was announced the BNP had won via top-up. At the head of the Party List that the BNP assembled they placed the name of their candidate for mayor.
Barnbrook is perhaps atypical of the standard BNP member. Firstly he is responsible for a film named HMS Discovery: A Love Story, which features whipping, gay sex and some naked chaps jumping into a river. His name is on the credits reel but he claims not to have written:
“It bares you like a foreskin’s folds”
Which is a pity because I find that quite beautiful. Or:
“Open-mouthed, I shall dream of altar boys.”
Which is probably for the best, really.
It actually sounds like it might be worth a viewing, perhaps even a public screening somewhere. I’m just not sure that this is exactly the representative that most of the party would have in mind for themselves.
If you want to find it, it’s filed under “Marxism”.
Secondly he was, at least at one point, proposed to Simone Clarke; the notorious BNP ballerina. He arranged a counter-protest to the one staged by UAF at her first public performance after The Guardian revealed her BNP membership in 2006. That aside their relationship, indeed her political affiliations, were rendered rather odd given that she had a half-Asian daughter aged 4 at the time. Barnbrook once remarked that “I’m not opposed to mixed marriages but their children are washing out the identity of this country’s indigenous people.”
Worse was to follow, though as the News of the World released an expose of his cheating ways, saying that he had slept to a woman who was not only not his partner but not from this country. Apparently he had had an almost affair with none other than a Finnish lady who he sent photos of his genitals to prior to their first actual meeting.
As you might have guessed in some respects this has not gone down too well with the far-right. Those I spoke to on the issue mentioned that Barnbrook’s organisation London BNP operates as an almost autonomous unit and, although nowhere near as opposed to Griffin as Yorkshire division, seems not to need him. Given that the BNP achieved only a quarter of what they had hopes for. On one level, then, the GLA seat serves as a consolation prize for the weakness of the party advance, while on the other the relative triumph of an internal organisation that operated apart from the rest of the party must leave a bitter taste through implicit comparison to the rest.
Regardless, Griffin could unquestionably have hoped for a more appropriate champion.
So it seems that the racist, homophobic BNP have placed into their most powerful position yet a director of a gay film that has had not only an affair but also been caught in an affair with an immigrant.
Still, the Finn only discovered her “average” lover’s political views upon finding a copy of Mein Kamph under the bed, a book that Griffin considers to contain “Some really useful ideas”. So there’s hope yet.
what dreadful rehashed drivel what century do you exist in? dont know about r.e.vamp pat.hetic much more appropriate!
Ah, a representative from Green Arrow! Welcome to the blog, so nice to have you along.
How can I improve this article, in your view? Perhaps I should have mentioned that the ballerina has a mixed race child? Or maybe floated the rumour that his brother married a black person?
Please do let me know, I find you far-rightists quite charming.