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A MAN has been cautioned after signatures on the nomination forms of a defeated BNP candidate in the General Election were found to have been forged.

South Wales Police received a number of complaints from members of the public concerned that their details had been used on Richard Barnes’ nomination form.

Mr Barnes stood for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney in the recent election, but received only 1,173 votes.

Before a prospective candidate is allowed to stand, he or she must obtain 10 signatures: a proposer, a seconder and those who signed the nomination papers.

Police investigated the claims and as a result a 30-year-old man was arrested and later cautioned for tampering with ballot nomination papers after he was found to be responsible for forging signatures.

A South Wales Police spokesman said: “Mr Barnes was unaware of the actions and the man was cautioned on May 16.”

Ronald Fealey, of Penydarren, was one of those who had his name used to forge a signature.

He said: “Someone told me my name was on the nomination form and I thought they were taking the Mick about it.

“My son downloaded the nomination form and there my name was. I reported it to the returning officer and they informed the police.

“I don’t know why my name was chosen, it possibly could have been out of a hat for all I know.”

Katy Meredith, of Church Street, Penydarren, was also a victim of the deception. She did not sign the nomination papers and said she did not vote BNP.

The Echo contacted the BNP but received no response.

Merthyr Tydfil Council was unable to help the Echo contact Richard Barnes, but did say: “Fraudulently signing election nomination papers is a criminal offence.

“Therefore, when Merthyr council was officially made aware that there was a potential issue with one of the candidates’ nomination papers the week after the election, the matter was referred directly to South Wales Police for investigation. Merthyr council has no further role.”

From Wales Online

A BNP thug who ran for council has been given a year’s community service for assaulting two female pacifist campaigners.

David Clarke, who got 518 votes when he stood in Heathfield for this year’s local elections, was sentenced on four counts of assaulting anti-racism campaigners.

Clarke, of Dunley Drive, New Addington, pushed and shoved Lorna Nelson-Homian, James Cox, Nigel Green and Silvia Beckett in two separate attacks last May outside East Croydon train station.

Croydon Magistrates’ Court handed the 41-year-old a 12-month community order last week and ordered him to pay costs of £650.

Clarke denied attacking the Hope Not Hate campaigners but was found guilty on April 30.

Giving evidence in relation to the first incident on May 27, campaigner Nigel Green said: “I saw him [Clarke] walking towards me.

“He was walking right towards me and I could see there would be problems. I decided to stop and put the leaflets behind my back.

“But he gestured for me to give him a leaflet and he basically snatched them out of my hand. They were thrown down on the street and that was quite a shock to me.

“Then he sort of pushed me and grabbed my arm and twirled me around. I was very shaken because I had done nothing to provoke him.”

Prosecutor Daniel Irving told the court how after the first assault Clarke left, only to return to repeatedly shove Ms Beckett to get to Mr Green.

The court heard Clarke almost knocked the woman off her feet.

Mr Irving told the court that when Clarke spotted other Hope Not Hate campaigners two days later he screamed at them: “F****** scumbags, filth on our streets, taking all our jobs.”

Then Clarke again snatched leaflets, threw them on the floor and shoved Ms Nelson-Homian and Mr Cox.

Bob “it’s all a conspiracy” Bailey has resigned as head of London BNP after losing his seat and getting arrested for assault. According to to a statement by London BNP, Bob stood down in order to:

“concentrate on clearing his name following unfounded allegations of assault during the recent London Elections”

Before claiming that:

“Bob leaves London BNP in good shape”

Under his leadership the BNP lost every single seat they held in the capital. These included his own and the council seat of the BNP’s only London Assembly member Richard Barnbrook. Barnbrook has so far failed to mention this defeat, although he does admit that:

“We didn’t do nearly as well as we’d hoped.”

However, all is not lost. As he puts it on his blog:

“the result, disappointing as it was, doesn’t actually change anything”

Oh dear. I think we’re stuck in the first stage of grief here Richard.

Source: Tory Troll

A photograph has emerged of a BNP councillor pictured with three men giving a Nazi salute standing next to a war memorial.

Steve Batkin is a councillor at Stoke-on-Trent City Council and is also a governor at two secondary schools.

The image, taken in 2002 in Stone, shows Mr Batkin and saluting far-right activists with a Union Jack flag.

Mr Batkin said the men were expressing their “rebelliousness” but admitted the image was “regrettable”.

The BNP said it rejected fascists and the “fascist cultists” who for many years had tried to take over control of the party.

The photograph was recently given to the BBC.

Smiling pose

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has called for Mr Batkin to resign his school governorships and stand down from his council post.

South Staffordshire Royal British Legion manager Peter Smith said he viewed the photograph with “revulsion”.

“Three-hundred-and-twenty-six thousand servicemen and women died in World War II so that we wouldn’t have Nazi salutes on the streets of Britain.”

The picture was taken while Mr Batkin was campaigning to win a seat on the city council.

Mr Batkin told the BBC the men were members of a “blood and honour” group sympathetic to the BNP but not officially linked.

Two of the men are now dead, he said.

“When the picture was shot, I don’t know exactly whether they’re going to do a fascist salute or not,” Mr Batkin explained.

“It would have been better they didn’t. But the fact is they did express their rebelliousness.”

Asked about his smiling pose, Mr Batkin added: “Yes, they are good, sound patriotic people.”

Mr Batkin is a governor at Edensor Technology College and Mitchell High School, both in Stoke-on-Trent.

A council spokesman said: “Schools have their own code of conduct for their governors, and the decision whether or not to suspend a governor rests with the school.”

Michael Coleman, a spokesman for the Stoke-On-Trent BNP branch, said: “Membership conditions of the BNP bar association with people who behave in a way that our people, the British people, would find offensive.

“This includes wearing fascist emblems or behaving in a way that would harm the reputation of the party.”

Because of the age of the photograph, Mr Coleman said he thought it would be sufficient to remind members at the next meeting that fascist associations were unwelcome, but to take no further action.

From: BBC News