The politically correct persecution of British dissidents reached new levels last month with a series of wickedly deceitful press stories about the BNP's London Regional Organiser, Richard Barnbrook.

As well as being a key figure in London BNP, Richard is also an artist and sculptor of considerable note, as well as being a teacher and a lecturer.

His list of connections, with people as varied as the musician sting and the Royal Family supporting his groundbreaking mix of art and environmentalism, would break for all time the media's false image of BNP members being ''Knuckle-draggers''. Yet this was buried in a spiteful and petty attempt to ruin his career and force him to abandon his political beliefs.

The story began when Richard had the idea of celebrating Britain's heritage by designing and planting a series of hillside woodlands in the shape of traditional heraldic beasts representing the parts of the country in question.

The idea gained momentum and a charity, The Jubilee Woods Trust, was set up to raise the money needed to turn Richard Barnbrook's vision into reality.

It was then that it was offered its first major project by the North West Development Agency to create a community woodland near Liverpool. This breakthrough came after Richard had already gained support for a Kentish Horse Woodland, to be visible from the Channel Train track, from the Dover Chamber of Commerce and Folkestone MP Michael Howard, now the Tory leader.

Also to find well-placed favour was the proposal to plant a woodland version of the Ox of Oxford, off the M4, which was sponsored by the Rover Group at Cowley.

Artistic Vision

The extraordinary scale of Richard's artistic vision was also demonstrated by the support he gained for several projects designed to celebrate the Millennium in London at the start of 2000.

His proposals received support from Number Ten Downing Street, Mirror Group newspapers, Harvey Goldsmith and Richard Branson.

In the end , however, the Millennium projects came to nothing. "I hit a brick wall once Peter Mandelson got heavily involved in planning the celebrations I think the fact that there were no kickbacks or free rent boys involved rather put off various New Labour bigwigs,'' said Richard with hindsight.

The Jubilee Woodlands trust, however, received backing from the head of programs to the Golden Jubilee Office, then Lucian Hudson, Director of communications at DEFRA who looked for development cost. Further help came when Sting gave 20,000 for the development of the project, including work in the singer's home city of Newcastle.

Things looked even rosier when Richard received a letter from Her Majesty the Queen

''...and this certainly sounds a splendid idea for improving the environment in each and every county of this country...''

wrote Mrs Deborah Bean, her Chief Correspondence Officer, even though the initial plan had only been for a JWT wood in each English region.

As a result of this encouragement, Richard approached the Prince of Wales, and was offered two more potential sites, one in Thanet and the other in Somerset.

The key to the whole project was the plan to create a community woodland in Sefton, Liverpool, which was the first to get full approval.

The plan involved a 51 acre site, and included 18 schools and 12 community projects.

The project itself bought together hundreds of volunteers and schoolchildren, and helped by the fact that Richard refused to draw any salary from the money available, it went ahead.The result was a major new community wood, centered on a magnificent sculpture of an owl. This was chosen as the emblem by local children on account of the fact that owls already nested nearby.

Gutter Press

Needless to say, when all this community and environmental work came to the attention of Britain's despicable gutter press, they ignored all this good work. Instead, readers were told that Richard had 'conned' Sting and even, in one newspaper - now being sued - that the money had been used to fund the BNP's London mayoral election campaign.

The real story, of course, should have been the fact that one of Britain's most imaginative and idealistic landscape artists had decided to support the British National Party. And why Richard had made this decision.

But that wouldn't have fitted with fitted with the picture of the BNP that the Liberal-left who dominate the mass media want you to see.

Rather than tell the truth, they lied and persecuted until the trustees lost their nerve and closed the whole project down.

So while the magnificent limestone owl still stands in the middle of the community wood in Sefton, the other projects to celebrate our heritage and beautify our country will now not get off Richard Banbrook's drawing board.

Until, that is, the day when the British people get sick of being lied to by gutter journalists and of being robbed by gutter politicians like Blair, Mandleson and Howard.

For the day after a British National Party is elected, those plans will be taken up once more, as Richard Banbrook and all other idealists like him in the British National Party set about making our Green and Pleasant Land so much greener and more pleasant that those who come afterwards will find it hard to imagine that the filth and ugliness of our present day Britain ever really existed.

 

This article is reprinted with permission from the August 2004 edition of the BNP Newspaper 'Freedom'

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