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Tory Troll (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
One of Richard Barnbrook's fellow BNP councillors was thrown out of a Barking and Dagenham council meeting last night, after refusing to apologise for comparing sex education to paedophilia. Councillor Lawrence Rustem (second right) was asked to say sorry for is previous statement that teaching sex education to children before secondary school was akin to paedophilia. But rather than withdraw his statement,...
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John's Labour blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Saturday 18 October 12 noon Dagenham Heathway station The HOPE not hate campaign is calling on its London supporters to begin the fightback against the BNP in Barking and Dagenham. For too long we have sat back and allowed the BNP a free run in the borough – this is now going to change. On Saturday 18 October the HOPE not campaign is launching a concerted campaign in the borough with a targeted campaign...
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Telegraph Blogs : Guest (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
This weekend will see the first Offset Festival . It takes place in Hainault Forest, a green oasis north of Dagenham in the hinterland where Greater London bleeds into Essex. Art-punk band Wire are headlining at ...
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Labourhome (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
A group of residents in Barking and Dagenham are to protest against Labour Councillor Liam Smith, who reportedly said to a political rival's mother "shut up you f***ing fat dyke" during the count at Chadwell Heath bi-election last month. More The comment was directed at Sue Connelly, a straight grandmother of eight and the mother of local Tory councillor Neil Connelly. More on PinkNews
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Through The Scary Door (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
That only nazis can add. From today's Gary Younge article: On Wednesday evening around 7pm, the Reverend Roger Gayler, vicar of St Marks parish, went to answer a knock on the door. It was the night before the Chadwell Heath byelection for Barking and Dagenham council in Greater London, and Gayler had recently written an open letter to his flock. "I rarely enter the party political arena and do so very...
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Indigo Public Affairs (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The Conservatives gained the Barking and Dagenham borough council ward of Chadwell Heath in a byelection on 3 July, thereby doubling their representation on the council and allowing themselves to form a political group. The party also held on to Bexhill Sackville ward on Rother district council, and to Christchurch ward on Bexley borough council [...]
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Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Well at least there’s one bit of good news from last night’s by election in The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Fears of a BNP upsurge on the back of their London Assembly Member, already strong base in the council in B and D and their overtaking Labour last week in Henley were allayed. [...]
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Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
John Gray reports here with pictures on canvassing at the weekend in the St Marks Gate ward in the Chadwell Heath area of Barking and Dagenham. There’s a council by-election on Thursday and the BNP who are standing are likely to be bouyed up by their Henley result (although they lost their deposit there too). The other two ward [...]
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Theo's blog (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
Hat-tip to Recess Monkey for this scoop on the BNP in Barking . According to the Ilford Recorder, Cllr. Bob Bailey - the Deputy Leader no less of the BNP on Barking and Dagenham Council - launched a verbal attack on the newspaper's reporter after complaints about biased coverage. Now, I'm sure all councillors have felt a bit hurt from time to time by biased or shoddy by local papers. However, few then...
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the groundhog (Free subscription) | 29/02/2008
Ground: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Stadium Date: Tuesday 12th February 2008, 7.45 pm League: League Two Result: Dagenham & Redbridge 6 Chester City 2 HT: 3-0 Att: 1,328 Strevens 13, 60 Uddin 15 Roberts 51, Murphy 90 (Chester scored 1st) Rainford 23 Nurse 83 Hall 90 Additional: Entrance £15 Programme £2.50 Hot drinks £1.00 Luckily for me my work were sending me on a [...]
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Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 21/10/2007
Yesterday I was in full campaign mode, thankful that the London weather is unseasonably mild and sunny. In the morning, I was out delivering residents’ surveys in Eastbury ward in Barking and Dagenham, which the LibDems used to hold, before the recent local surge of the BNP — a situation London region is keen to [...]
