By Giuseppe De Santis – A few days before the 2011 local elections, Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP for Barking, dismissed any criticism about the demographic changes that took place in the borough by saying that things change and people must get used to it. A result of this ‘change’ was laid bare by the Barking & Dagenham Post, who ran a recent front-page headline claiming that the £23.9m given by the government to add extra school places is not enough and that Labour councillors want hundreds of millions of pounds in additional funding. 

By Giuseppe De Santis – During the campaign for the local elections in Barking and Dagenham in 2010, ‘anti-fascist’ groups were delivering many free papers in the borough, telling people that, if the British National Party took control, plenty of civil servants would be sacked, essential services would be slashed and many schools and libraries would be closed. It's sad that many people voted Labour out of fear only to find out that the newly elected Labour councillors are making deep cuts anyway without slashing wasteful expenditure. 

Barking and Dagenham British National Party activists have gained enough signatures for their petition to cut the number of councillors in the borough by a third to be discussed in the council chamber. 

Barking & Dagenham Council plans to save £48m over three years by sacking staff, increasing the prices of meals-on-wheels and charging workers £20 for parking, but London British National Party has identified a much more cost-effective series of cuts, writes Barking and Dagenham council candidate Giuseppe De Santis. 

British National Party members were out on Saturday morning to collect more signatures for their petition to cut the number of councillors in Barking & Dagenham by one-third, reports London activist Giuseppe de Santis. 

Activists from London British National Party visited South Ockendon, Thurrock recently to help out the Party’s Essex branch ahead of the local council elections in May, reports London Organiser Steve Squire. 

The Barking and Dagenham British National Party branch today led the campaign to stop the planned building of a new mosque in the area, reports Bob Taylor, Organiser for Barking and Dagenham.

Demographic change which propelled the non-white portion of the Barking electorate to 50 percent was the reason why the Labour Party won that election, writes regular British National Party website commentator “Edith.”

Nick Griffin MEP is to launch a court action to get the Barking election result overturned and the “liar” Margaret Hodge banned from parliament using the Phil Woolas court case as a precedent, the party has announced.

The British National Party’s defiant Richard Barnbrook increased the party’s vote by 7.3 percent in a dramatically reduced turnout in the Goresbrook by-election in Barking yesterday.