Back in February 2009 the BNP gained its first councillor in the South East when Paul Golding was elected in Swanley with an overwhelming 41 percent of the vote. Since being elected, Cllr Golding has had to fend off disgraceful lies and fabrications, all engineered by the local media working in concert with a terrified Labour Party.

This campaign of hate against the BNP in Swanley reached a climax when the local gutter rag, the News Shopper, ran a Labour-created story claiming that Cllr Golding has ‘done nothing’ since being elected, this being the conclusion of ‘local residents’. These local residents, however, amounted to two Labour supporters and a Labour councillor terrified of the growing BNP support in the area.

This particular attack is all the more ridiculous when it is considered that Mr Golding was elected in the first place because the people of Swanley were sick of being ignored by the local Labour councillors who were reviled as the ‘Invisible Councillors’.

Cllr Golding immediately hit back, producing a rebuttal leaflet that was distributed to 5,000 homes throughout Swanley exposing the truth behind the Labour/News Shopper coalition. He also launched an Operation Fightback campaign against the News Shopper’s advertisers, which initially attracted a vehement response, but has since panicked the News Shopper into virtual silence. This Fightback campaign was so successful that News Quest Media Group — the company that owns the News Shopper — suggested a meeting between Cllr Golding and the that paper’s  editor.

Cllr Golding also set up a local councillor’s website to detail the work that he, as a lone councillor among an army of over 50 Lib-Lab-Con councillors, is doing, such as opposing council tax increases and pay raises for councillors.

The News Shopper almost immediately demonstrated their bias by refusing to publish a genuine story that showed that Cllr Golding had been banned from using council facilities in Swanley to meet with his residents by the Labour controlled Town Council. They also investigated the story of a disabled woman who had come to Cllr Golding for help after being fobbed off by Labour but then refused to print this genuine story.

“I am determined to fight the outrageous Labour ban imposed on me by all means available,” Cllr Golding said.

“Labour has abused their position to hinder the progress of a rival elected political party. A democratically elected councillor is now unable to hold meetings with his voters, supporters and members because Labour says so. It is absolutely outrageous and a totalitarian act of spite,” he said.