The BNP love story

Sometimes, a story warms your heart so much, you just have to burst out laughing.

So principal ballerina Simone Clarke with the English National Ballet, is set to marry the party's London mayoral candidate (good luck with that one, BNPers, the Tories have got BORIS), Richard Barnbrook.

Clarke was outed as a BNP member by a Guardian investigation a year ago. As The Telegraph delicately puts it:

Shortly after Miss Clarke was outed as a BNP member her relationship with fellow dancer Yat-Sen Chang, a Cuban immigrant of Chinese descent, broke up and she started seeing Mr Barnbrook.

Yes, him indoors probably wasn't thrilled by the revelation.

The couple have a small daughter, Olivia, and her mother's prospective husband doesn't sound like an ideal stepfather:

Incredibly, when Clarke was first outed, Barnbrook said he hoped she would not have children with Chang.

Speaking before he knew the couple had a daughter, he said: "I'm not opposed to mixed marriages but their children are washing out the identity of this country's indigenous people."

Apparently, now he goes by the less inflammatory line of:

"It doesn't bother me at all. I knew about Simone's child before I met her," he said.

"If we do end up getting married, as far as I'm concerned, that child will be my child."

"That child." The warmth! The humanity! But - how did this romance begin?

Mr Barnbrook, the leader of the 12-strong BNP group on Barking and Dagenham Council, watched the production to demonstrate his support for Miss Clarke, whose performance was interrupted by anti-fascist campaigners.

In an extraordinary escalation of the row, several protesters jumped up from their seats to shout: "Black and white unite. No to the BNP."

Placard carrying protesters chanted slogans outside.

Mr Barnbrook, who took a bouquet of red roses and lilies for Miss Clarke, said: "I was aware of her, had been in the same room as her, but had never talked to her or properly met her.

"I thought she was beautiful. In the future we will get married and have a family."

"We will." Eek. There's nothing like the background hum of protest against your party's racially divisive policies when falling in love.

One last comment from Barnbrook:

He added: "We have been seeing each other for nine months. I amazed nobody cottoned on to it."

WHERE have the paps been? Just following Winehouse around isn't enough! Sometimes, you have to go all the way to Barking and Dagenham for the real story.

Good luck to Olivia. She's going to need it.

Written by Westmonster on 20 Dec 2007 10:15 AM. There are 1 comments so far. Permalink