EXCLUSIVE

FAR RIGHT GOES FARWRONG

28-09-2006

The Stirrer has discovered that a far-right political party calling for the repatriation of “non-Europeans” has become active in the West Midlands - and it's being organised by a former National Front candidate.

James Barry, from Oldbury, stood for the NF in Wolverhampton South East at the 2001 general election,polling 554 votes, and hehas also been a long-term member of the BNP.

Now he hopes to stand under the banner of the recently formed New Party in Walsall in next year's local council elections.

He's already busy leafleting the Palfrey ward (as well as other parts of the Black Country), with a manifesto similar in many respects that offered by the likes of UKIP and Veritas.

Under the motto “Putting British People First”, the New party are calling for withdrawal from the European Union, greater protection for home-based industries, and tougher crime policies.

What sets them apart is a demand from their more moderate rivals is the demand for an end to “positive discrimination” and the offer of voluntary repatriation of “non-Europeans”.

Barry, who's 44 and unemployed, assured The Stirrer that compulsory removal of people with African-Caribbean and Asian heritage, was “based on space not race.”

He said: “If you look on the map, we are a tiny dot and we can't cope with this many people.”

But why specify non-Europeans I wondered? Why not offer repatriation to recently arrived Poles for example?

“Aah” said Barry, spectacularly failing to answer the question, “ we don't know how long they are going to stay.”

He was at least honest about the party's local membership - “a handful” - and revealed that their recruitment strategy involved contacting like-minded people who had written to local newspapers, as well as getting in touch with former UKIP candidates.

He had some interesting views on Muslims: “They aren't so bad” said Barry, “because they tend to live within their own areas. We are speaking out because we want people to have the right to live in all-white areas.”

He also said that repatriation would not be compulsory: “We're talking about 6 or 7 million people out of about 60 million and it wouldn't be very humane. And it also wouldn't be practical.”

Instead, enticements would be offered, using the cash saved from scrapping Britain's foreign aid budget.

There are just a couple of snags with Barry's masterplan. Firstly, he lives in Sandwell, and unless he moves to Walsall by October 15th, he'll be too late to meet the residential qualification for next year's ballot.

Barry believes there's a housing office conspiracy afoot to hold him back, and ruefully admits that if he misses the deadline: “That would set me back another year.”

His other great difficulty is that there is another New Party, based in Scotland, which is already registered with the Electoral Commission, and they know nothing about James Barry and are appalled by his racist views.

Their spokesman Martin Green told The Stirrer, he'd be taking up the issue immediately with Commission because no one elseis allowed touse the party's name.

Don't cry too much, butit looks as though all the leafleting James Barry has been carrying out in Walsall, trying to inflame racist sentiment, has been a complete waste of time.