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BNP laughing stock in capital

Bermondsey Bill | 10.05.2006 18:44 | Anti-racism | London

Andrew Gilligan article, front cover Evening Standard

"BNP CHIEF HAS SECRET PAST AS GAY PORN FILM PRODUCER"

Andrew Gilligan reports in today's Evening Standard that Richard Barnbrook, official opposition leader of the 11 strong BNP councillors on Barking and Dagenham council, produced and directed an amateur Gay Porn film called 'HMS Discovery: A Love story' in 1989. It is described on a cinema website as "Marxist gay cinema from conceptual artists Barnbrook".

The film featured young men in Sailors uniforms frolicking naked, the group flogging one of their number and "a naked man apparently performing a sex act on another". All accompanied by Mr Barnbrook and another unidentified man reading homoerotic poetry for the sound track.

More seriously, Gilligan claims that Barnbrook used a false address at 5a London Road, Barking as his address on the electoral register despite the fact that the building is derelict. Further, that he registered at this address only six weeks before the election and that Councillor Barnbrook's real home is in posh Blackheath.

It is not clear where Gilligan got his information but everyone is laughing their heads off in London tonight!
But why didn't someone mention this before May 4th?

Finally, how about organising a public showing of this cinematic master piece for the voters of Dagenham and Barking or putting it up on a web-site in the name of public interest?

Bermondsey Bill

Comments

Display the following 13 comments

  1. What a pity... — Lancaster UAF
  2. Idiot — Liz
  3. Oooh get her....... — Bermondsey Bill
  4. Nor can you count..... — BB
  5. Nor can you count..... — BB
  6. An old stanby — Lance
  7. Homophobia and the anti Fash — Zac
  8. It's all about hypocrisy — Glover
  9. Homophobia — Zac
  10. Dangerous News? — DC
  11. gays — ricky
  12. The tone of the article is *not* homophobic — Hugh
  13. homophobic left — ricky

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