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Photo / ColBacco Pair jailed for plotting murder of pregnant teen Illegal workers on the Olympic site have been arrested Sarkozy snubbed by Brown for bad-mouthing the City Skinny house for sale at half a million Mitcham’s Remembrance Sunday event was apparently hijacked by the …

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“London Has Been Ethnically Cleansed”

Image by hedgiecc “A lynch mob”, was how Nick Griffin described his treatment by the audience on Question Time last night. After his attempt to defend the “non-violent” Ku Klux Klan during the broadcast, his cliche was particularly appropriate. Waking up to a chorus of …

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ebb and flow by Ray Wise Anti-BNP protestors break into BBC on Griffin’s tail Macca announces one-off O2 gig. That’ll pay for Christmas then. The RMT backed down but Unite are going to ballot members over tube strike action Eastenders launches E20 online to lure …

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BNP’s Barnbrook Censured And Suspended

Richard Barnbrook, BNP council member for Barking and Dagenham and London Assembly member, has been suspended from the former for a month and censured by the latter for telling lies about ‘murders’ in his borough. His excuse? Dyslexia. Now, we don’t dispute that dyslexia can …

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Monday Miscellanea

Last week on Londonist in numbers, translated into pictures… 175,000 ducks in the Great British Duck Race £800,000.00 in estimated pay-as-you-go emissions fees from motorists for Richmond council £16.50 to get into Buckingham Palace according to our man with a pram 7 years of inaction …

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Barnbrook Avoids Suspension… For Now?

Standards committees were poised to grill the BNP’s Richard Barnbrook today and decide his punishment – which could include suspension from the London Assembly – after he admitted making up three murders in Barking and Dagenham. (And then denied it again. His indecision on this …

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BNP Leader Gets Egg On Face

Image / Simon-K Nick Griffin’s attempt to celebrate his party’s European election success was scrambled today when protestors pelted him with eggs outside Parliament. The MEP-elect for North West England may have overestimated his support in the Big Smoke when he organised a press conference …

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The attorney general is considering the leniency of the Baby P. sentences. A black man has been beaten up by BNP supporters in Eltham. Runs in the family: now Abu Hamza’s sons admit dodgy car dealings. Kids living in poverty in London are at greater …

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Griffin Fights For The Right To Party

Boris Johnson has leapt into the fray over BNP leader Nick Griffin’s controversial guest invite to the Queen’s garden party. ‘Can’t quite believe that the BNP are trying to turn the Queen’s annual garden party into a political stunt,’ the mayor Twittered. ‘Am going to …

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BNP Leader To Go To Palace

Image by SooHK in Lens Don’t worry, the world isn’t going mad: Nick Griffin, who leads the far-right British National Party, is not off to Buckingham Palace to get his knighthood, but he is planning to attend a garden party hosted by the Queen on …

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Mayor In Favour Of Immigrant Amnesty

A sign of our twisted political times, perhaps, that our Tory mayor endorses an amnesty for illegal immigrants while the Labour government opposes it. According to Boris Johnson, an amnesty for the estimated 725,000 illegals in the country would be “morally right”, but the government, …