Andrew Constantine

I have just read in the Sunday newspapers that London Assembly staff and the other parties have decided to boycott the BNP London Assembly member and generally give your elected candidate a hard time.

Your successful candidate has a democratic mandate equal to any other elected London Assembly member, and should thereby have the same access to facilities, information and officials as any other member of the Assembly.

I suggest to the BNP that if they face such discrimination in the Assembly (based after all in the capital of England), they should seek legal advice.

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As predicted. It isn't just other assembly members but people like secretaries and administrators who are also participating in the BNP boycott.

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John Connor

Same thing has been happening on Stoke council, where the NuLabour peeps refuse to work with the BNP councillors.

Even better now there's 9, not 6, BNP thugs on the council - shows how much the other councillors believe in democracy.

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g hall

So these people believe in free speech and the democratic process as long as the results are what they want
I dislike the BNP and all they stand for but until the organisation is made illegal this should not happen and staff who boycott should be disciplined they are there to do a job - as for other politicians if they wish to boycott then fine but I believe that their stupidity will encourage some people to vote for the BNP

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blueblood1920

This will just make Richard more determined to fight on and expose anything and everything he can. He will be a thorn in their side and they will all be having nightmares about this man, they can boycott all they want but they wont stop the BNP.

However the BNP has said some officials were very pleasent and helpful yesterday when they were getting shown around. The BNP know we have supporters in their already as we had people leaking us information all the time.

As for Stoke, the BNP have stated they will take the council within 5 years, will stand a full slate next time. Also the Labour MP has attacked his Labour councillors and praised the BNP, hes clearly worried that he could now lose his seat to a growing BNP voter base.

Vortex

I love that quote from some on this board "I dislike the BNP and all it stands for", when the BNP advocates withdrawal from the EU. So you're against that are you?

But thanks for the support in upholding the rights of democratically elected councillors in doing their job for their electors, of which 200,000 voted BNP.

The Bear

I find myself between a rock and a hard place on this issue.

On the one hand I detest the BNP for its rotten core and their rotten ideologies but on the other what the BNP is presenting in the big lettering is what a lot of people believe, especially with regard to Islam and uncontrolled immigration.

On balance it is for those reasons that I believe it will be wrong for other Assembly members to boycott the BNP representative. The people who do have opinions that the BNP have broadcast are entitled to have their voices heard.

In the case of secretarial and support staff, the situation should not even arise.

They are employed to do a job. Politics should not enter into it. If as individuals they do not want to work with a legal party, no matter how foul that party might be, they should find another job.

Just a shame that the decent parties don’t pick up on the issues that the BNP have used in their game of smoke and mirrors, then there would be no need for them to sully the atmosphere in the LA.

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kernow

I agree 100%

London Orbital

In that case, what we may see is at least the partial disappearance of the traditional notion of a politically-disinterested civil service.

For never fear - Richard Barnbrook will find no shortage of willing & able volunteers and supporters to assist him at the GLA. Indeed, he is quite entitled to appoint such people to assist him.

From a BNP point of view, we have not worked this hard to get him elected merely to see his appointment founder upon lack of co-operation by politically-motivated ethnic support staff at the GLA.

(For goodness sake, that building even has a Muslim prayer room installed in its basement!)

However - more generally - as we begin to lose the notion of widespread consensus in an increasingly divided society (which has been brought about by massive levels of immigration never consented to by the wide majority), parties like the BNP may obtain more & power, yet without ever joining - or even expecting to join - the 'club'.

When I lived in Brazil, I discovered that politicians there always brought along with them pretty much 100% of their own adminstrative 'help'.

So when they were voted out, all their secretaries were fired along with them. This process may become more the norm here as well.

tito

Simple

1) It is immoral to facilitate the BNP (and Labour, and the Tories, and the Lib Dems for that matter.)

2) It is your job to facilitate immoral people

If 1 prevents you from doing 2 then you quit.

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