Euro Election Candidates

Euro election candidates

Despite expressing strong opposition to the European Union, ironically a seat on the European Parliament is one of the BNP's most coveted prizes. A BNP MEP would bring the party a level of publicity and funding that it can currently only dream about. Kate Taylor sets out the list of BNP candidates for the 11 Euro constituencies it is fighting. Among those competing for European glory are several hardcore activists and racists who would bring hate and bigotry to Brussels.

West Midlands

1 Simon Darby
West Midlands organiser and director of information technology. Formerly in the National Democrats

2 Simon Smith
Was last month suspended from his position of maths teacher at a Solihull school because of his ties with the BNP and for running a nazi website

3 Martin Roberts

4 Robert Purcell
Editor of the BNP’s members’ bulletin

5 Mark Payne
Once ran the 14 Words Press, a UK branch of a US book club of the same name, dedicated to remembering US terrorist Robert Matthews. Payne once changed his name to Mark Matthews in honour of his hero, who ran the nazi terror gang The Order and was killed by the FBI

6 Michael Coleman

7 William Locke

Scotland

1 Steve Blake

Owner of Aurora Promotions, the importer of hardcore nazi material from the US, in the 1980s

2 Scott McLean
Nazi vice chair of the BNP

3 David Kerr
Football “casual” and Combat 18 thug

4 Stephen Burns

5 Bryan Dickson

6 Craig McComb

7 John Bean
Lifelong fascist, “the British Dr Goebbels”

North East

1 Alan Patterson

2 Andrew Harris

3 Jenny Agnew

Wales

1 John Walker

2 Pauline Gregory

3 James Roberts

4 Mark Stringfellow

South West

1 Tony North

Devon and Cornwall organiser, received a police warning last year after harassing anti-racist campaigners

2 Michaela MacKenzie

3 Barry Bennett

4 Peter Mullins

5 Robert Baggs

6 Bruce Cowd

Somerset organiser and long-time BNP activist

7 Frederick Paynter

North West

1 Nick Griffin

BNP leader. Convicted in 1998 for producing the racist magazine The Rune. Denies the Holocaust ever happened and is a disciple of Roberto Fiore, the convicted Italian terrorist.

2 Martin Wingfield
Former National Front chairman, who joined the BNP in 1991. Edits BNP newspaper The Voice of Freedom. Convicted for racist leaflet

3 David Jones

4 Patricia Thompson

5 David Joines

6 Ralph Ellis

7 Richard Chadfield
Active political extremist since 1978

8 Anita Corbett

9 Barry Birks

East Midlands

1 Peter Francis

2 Clive Potter
Prominent Leicester activist. Former key member of the National Democrats. Expelled from UNISON a few years ago for bringing the trade union into disrepute through his far-right activities

3 Patrick May

4 John Pennington

5 Wendy Russell

6 Mark Hall

London

1 Chris Roberts

Former City insurance man and brother of hardline nazi Barry Roberts

2 Tess Culnane

3 Lee Barnes
Wannabe legal adviser to the BNP

4 James Sneadon

5 John Bowles
Itinerant BNP activist

6 Jay Lee

Prominent Bexley activist, expelled from ASLEF in 2002 for his alleged racist activities

7 John Evans

8 Alan Bailey

9 Lawrence Rustem
His recruitment to the BNP caused an internal row because of his Turkish origin

Yorkshire & The Humber

1 Nick Cass

The BNP’s Dewsbury organiser has admitted to taking photos for the nazi website Redwatch, which aims to harass and intimidate people who do not like the BNP

2 Chris Beverley
Recently graduated from Leeds University with a first class degree in German. While studying he forged close links with German far-right NPD. Beverley, known as Scarface, runs Excalibur, the BNP’s merchandising operation, and is director of internet publicity

3 John Brayshaw

York based national treasurer of the BNP, tried to infiltrate the UK Independence Party in October last year, but was expelled when his BNP membership was exposed

4 John Aveyard

5 Paul Cromie

6 Diane Carr

Eastern

1 Matt Single

2 Paul Goodchild
Former prison officer at a detention centre for asylum seekers

3 Patricia Richardson

4 Ramon Johns (aka Ray Johns)
On his own admission a failed BNP councillor in Broxbourne. His shelves are full of books about the SS and Nazism

5 Bert Corby

6 Sid Chaney

7 Peter Turpin
Disgraced former police officer

South East

1 Brian Galloway

2 Julie Russell

Daughter of Stuart Russell aka Phil Edwards, the BNP press officer. Julie has links with the Swedish National Democrats, and runs the Overseas Liaison Group. In a recent Identity article she wrote, “for us European also means white”

3 Timothy Rait
Long-time supporter of Nick Griffin’s rival John Tyndall

4 Dr Peter Lane

5 Roger Robertson

6 Julian Crewe

7 Adam Champneys

8 Ian Johnson

9 Dennis Whiting
A founder member of the National Front, Whiting joined the BNP in the 1980s. Has stood for the BNP on several occasions.

10 Vernon Atkinson

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