BNP chief in MP bid
NICK Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, confirmed yesterday that he will stand for Barking at the next General Election.
He said he had chosen to fight Culture Minister Margaret Hodge for the east London seat because of “the housing and education problems in the borough, and the way that the Labour Party has let that borough down in a catastrophic way”.
Mr Griffin, Euro MP for the North-West, said the BNP would be fighting for the largest number of seats ever. “I guess in excess of 200,” he said. Speaking before he addressed his annual conference in Wigan, Greater Manchester, he said his party would target seats in a “mission to expose corruption”.
He added: “We will be looking at MPs who have had their snouts in the trough in terms of what they do to help privatise the commonwealth of Britain and then end up on the boards of the companies they have enriched.”
Mr Griffin also pledged that the BNP would be the only party to end the Afghanistan war by bringing the troops home.