By Giuseppe De Santis – Something interesting is happening in Barking & Dagenham. As Labour councillors are planning to cut £20m in the next financial year, more people in the borough are asking, loudly, to reduce the number of councillors. Such requests have been made in a public hearing last week and in a letter published in the Barking & Dagenham Post. More interesting still, Terry Justice, a former Tory councillor, went further by suggesting to reduce the number of councillors by 2/3 so that the council could save at least £1m in the next four years. 

British National Party activists were out on the streets of west London on Saturday to campaign for an upcoming parliamentary by-election. Sub-regional organiser Dave Furness organised the day of action ahead of the Feltham and Heston by-election, which will take place on 15 December. 

The British National Party is on course to regain its GLA seat and perhaps win one more, London Regional Organiser Steve Squire told a recent meeting in Enfield. Mr Squire, who is the British National Party’s number one party list candidate for the GLA, was joined at the meeting by Party Chairman Nick Griffin. 

The British Veterans’ Group’s Veterans Officer, Pete Molloy, has received a response from both Buckingham Palace and Downing Street with regard to the issuing of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal next year. Many veterans and serving armed forces personnel will miss out on being awarded this medal due to the very narrow issuing criteria. 

Dedicated London British National Party activists were out in Dagenham Heathway on Saturday, distributing hundreds of leaflets and other Party literature promoting our 2012 GLA election fight. Over 900 I Love London campaign leaflets, 300 EU Referendum leaflets and more than 200 Voice of Freedom newspapers were handed out to the public. 

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. 

Ten dedicated London British National Party activists gathered 130 more signatures for Party campaigns in Romford on Saturday. The branch received strong support for both Nick Griffin’s EU ReferendumNOW petition and the campaign for an elected mayor for Havering. 

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. 

Simon Darby interviews the British National Party’s London mayoral candidate Carlos Cortiglia and lead GLA candidate Steve Squire at last weekend’s British National Party conference. Topics covered include the state of the economy, the establishment’s continual smears against our party, and the London riots. 

London British National Party activists enjoyed a great response from locals in Harold Hill, East London, at the weekend, gathering more EU ReferendumNOW signatures and promoting the Party’s fight for 2012’s Greater London Assembly election.