News from Richard Barnbrook: Progress at Mayors question time

At Mayor’s Question time at London’s City Hall today the BNP’s Richard Barnbrook caused controversy by submitting two questions directly towards Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

There was a degree of consternation amongst other Assembly Members when AM Barnbrook offered to donate a day’s wages to a charity for the elderly in support of his first question.

Mr Barnbrook’s London Mother’s Against Knives campaign, which has attracted 17,500 signatures, also received a boost when his second question in support of this campaign received unexpected support from Boris Johnson himself. Mr Johnson admitted however, that he had never heard of the TV show "Ross Kemp on Gangs".

Notes to Editors

The questions in order of submission were:

Pay Rises

Question No: 2343 / 2008

Richard Barnbrook

Considering the increasingly dire economic situation impacting especially on London’s pensioners and other vulnerable communities, will the Mayor, as a gesture of solidarity and understanding, request that the Head of Paid Service suspend all pay rises for this year to the Mayor’s direct staff, agree not to take up his own pay rise, and urge London Assembly Members to do the same?

Violent Street Crime

Question No: 2347 / 2008

Richard Barnbrook

In seeking to tackle the root cause of violent street crime in London amongst some of the younger generation will the Mayor condemn the gratuitous open depiction of knives and guns on the covers of DVDs and computer games and the television glamourisation of street violence such as the series Ross Kemp on Gangs?