Richard Barnbrook

Thankfully I have yet to experience what it is like on the inside of a police interview room. Perhaps a more unusual claim to fame, is my ability from time to time, as a GLA member, to be able to put the police on the spot.

Further to this I would hazard a guess that kind of questions I am allowed to ask of senior officers are, even in their long experience, somewhat different to the line of questioning that they are accustomed to. So what happens when a BNP politician is locked in a committee room with senior members of the Metropolitan Police and the Fire Service and starts asking questions that in politically correct Britain should never see the light of day?

Thanks to the relative openness here at City Hall a video archive of these encounters is publicly available. As such, via yesterday’s Buget Monitoring Sub Committee meeting, you can view for yourselves as specific figures surrounding the spending on “hate crime” are called for and an explanation for sharp increases in white “stop and search” and similar decreases in black “stop and search” is also demanded.

The outcome is not exactlly politically correct and judging from the hesitancy I do not think those charged with providing the answers enjoyed the experience, but it does make fascinating viewing nevertheless. Real democracy in action is the way I see it, but you can judge from yourselves by clicking here, where the action starts after about 9 mins 40 secs.