My solicitor has been instructed to go ahead with legal action against a number of defendants including Chairman Adam Walker and party treasurer Clive Jefferson.
In the background, away from the public domain, a two year process of trying to hold the leadership of the BNP to account, of trying to get Chairman Adam Walker to do the most basic thing – uphold the BNP Constitution, has been exhausted.
IN FACT, THE BNP CONSTITUTION HAS HAD PROTECTED PARTS CHANGED COVERTLY, BEHIND THE MEMBERS BACKS, WITHOUT VOTING MEMBERS BEING GIVEN A VOTE AS THE CONSTITUTION MANDATES.
SUCH INVALID AND ILLEGAL CHANGES BENEFITED THE TREASURER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE NEC.
I am forced to bring legal action against Adam Walker, Clive Jefferson and other defendants, who have collectivity failed to reply in a satisfactory manner to “Pre-action before claim” letters sent to them by my solicitor. They have also failed to reply to follow up reminder letters.
The defendants failure to treat the matter seriously only strengthens the case against them.
That failure also gives me the green light to take the defendants to court, we are past the point of no return. A date in court is unavoidable and I will be working with my solicitor to ensure that happens ASAP.
It has come to light, that not only have the defendants failed to uphold the BNP Constitution, they have actually broken it by covertly changing the BNP Constitution, refusing to acknowledge that it’s been broken and furthermore, are ignoring any proposed remedies to fix it.
Before I go into the details of the legal action and why it’s being brought, I urge all members to renew their membership of the party and not feel downhearted and demoralized in any way. It is vital that you do, because if you don’t, you will not have any say in the future of the party and you would be dropping your democratic right to vote in future BNP leadership elections, policy motions, votes of confidence and constitution changes.
A lot of money is being spent on legal proceedings to force an EGM.
If and when that EGM happens, members need to turn up to it and vote for what they want, hopefully after a fair hearing from any voting member who wishes to speak.
Many members who know me, know that I’ve always worked hard to keep internal party matters out of the public domain. However because of the nature of the legal action and why it’s being brought, it’s vital that I go public now.
If you are one of our friends, perhaps an ex member or someone thinking of joining our party, I urge you to join, because I believe strongly that the party has a future.
I’m proud of the activists and members that we have, as they are wise people who understand that our party’s future depends not on the resolve of its present or future leadership, but on the resolve of the membership, activists and officials to stop at nothing to ensure that The Constitution is upheld and enhanced so that we can build a strong and well structured party.
Far from feeling demoralized, I’m actually quite excited for the future of our party.
This isn’t some squalid dodgy dossier that’s somehow supposed to discredit people. It’s vital information that BNP members need.
If and when Chairman Adam Walker and Treasurer/Dept Chairman Clive Jefferson finally face the members, you will have questions that you will be able to ask them.
My trust in Adam Walker and Clive Jefferson has long broken down, as they have deployed tactics that has destroyed my confidence that they will play ball fairly and respect the rights of members and officials.
They have so far been evasive and ignored my questions so far. I have tried the NEC route as per the constitution, emails, phone calls and letters via my solicitor. As I have said, two years have gone by, this hasn’t come about because of a personal fall out. I have worked very hard to keep personality politics out of it.
I urge all members to simply digest the information I post on this website. You should share it privately. Please don’t share it on the public domain. Your Facebook wall is NOT private, please don’t share it that way.
I urge members to refrain from any attempt at public discussion of these revelations. Others will try to get you to make public comment, it’s vital that you resist the temptation no matter what is being said by those outside (or even inside) the party. If you find a party member commenting on public forums, the best thing to do is contact privately and urge them to stop.
Chairman Adam Walker and others at party HQ may very well release statements concerning all of this. Again in such circumstances I advise party members to refrain from commenting in the public domain. If you really have to comment, it’s your right to do so, but I would keep in mind the BNP’s code of conduct before doing so. It would be an awful shame if you got yourself expelled, as fun as it would be to ask which BNP Constitution you are being expelled under!
At the bottom of this article are links to the legal documents that have been served to the defendants. Please read through them carefully and you will be fairly up to speed as to why the legal action is being brought about.
Not everything is explained in those legal documents, but most of it is.
Before you read those documents, you should understand that the BNP Constitution has been covertly changed so that bank / building society accounts could be opened up by BNP treasurer Clive Jefferson even though the legitimate BNP Constitution expressly forbids it.
This is quite concerning considering who the co-signatory is on those accounts – Valerie Donahue. A lady who is quite close to Clive Jefferson considering that she took him in at the age of 15 when his natural Mother passed away.
It’s impossible for Clive Jefferson to claim he had no knowledge of The Constitution being covertly changed, taking away powers from the NEC and Head of Administration, when he has taken advantage of such fraudulent changes by opening up building society accounts, that the older legit constitution forbade him from doing.
Please note, that I’m not just talking about what pages and documents exist on the WayBackMachine for the BNP website, we’re also talking about the BNP Constitution that was filed By Adam and Clive with the Electoral Commission when they failed to renew the party’s registration in early 2016.
Concerning the Electoral Commission. It should be noted that upon renewing their registration , political parties are not supposed to file their constitutions even if there is updates in their constitutions, unless the changes that were made make a material difference to anything that was written in their financial schedule when they first registered with the Electoral Commission. In plain English, it’s only under special circumstances that the Treasurer of a political party should file updated constitutions.
At least one major change was made to the protected part of The BNP Constitution and as such, as per The Constitution, changes to the protected part of the constitution demands that the major revision number is incremented and not the minor AND that a vote of voting members is held, amongst other things.
The constitution was changed behind members backs, covertly.
In a fantasy alternate reality, had the voting membership been mad enough to pile into an appropriate meeting and vote to strip the NEC of such a vital power in favour of our treasurer Clive Jefferson, then the next valid BNP Constitution would have been numbered 15.1 rather than 14.x to draw attention to such a major change.
It wasn’t, because it was covertly done as so not to draw attention. They jumped from the legitimate 14.2 to the illegal 14.4 –
For more on the BNP Constitution, including evidence of it being changed, please read this article here:
The BNP Constitution
To read the Protocol before claim letter and other correspondence, please visit:
https://cbarnettnationalist.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/correspondence-with-the-defendants/
Again, I urge members renew their memberships. It is vital.
Don’t leave things to chance, please ensure any members you know also renews their memberships as well.
To summarize, the legal action being taken out against the defendants, has a number of aims:
- The correct BNP Constitution is published on the party website.
- The Cumberland building society accounts are shut down.
- The Constitution is upheld – 4 NEC meetings are held a year along with an AGM / Conference.
- The Constitution is freed up so that NEC members from the regions can be elected when the next leadership election is called.
- To ensure that future leadership elections are fair.
- Remove conflicts of interest that Clive Jefferson has.
- Make the Chairman accountable to the NEC again.
Chris Barnett.
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