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EPPING FOREST: BNP councillor to feature in TV documentary
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| Councillor Pat Richardson, who is to feature in the Channel 4 Dispatches programme |
ONE of the district's BNP councillors is set to feature on a controversial television documentary which attracts millions of viewers.
Councillor Pat Richardson will speak candidly about her attitude towards Muslims living in Britain on the Dispatches programme scheduled to be screened on Channel 4 in July.
Mrs Richardson, who has the rare distinction of being the BNP's only Jewish councillor, was interviewed for the programme during the local election count at Waltham Abbey Town Hall earlier this month, where she was elected to represent the Loughton Broadway ward.
Along with fellow BNP party members, she was questioned about her views on British Muslims by the show's producer James Jones.
Mrs Richardson said: "He was very polite and he followed us around throughout the morning.
"I told him I think there are many moderate Muslims living in Britain just going about their day-to-day lives, but that they end up being treated with suspicion because of radical Muslims who carry out attacks which devastate peoples' lives."
Mrs Richardson has appeared on television before, in a BBC news programme when she became one of the first three BNP councillors elected to Epping Forest District Council in 2004.
She says she is looking forward to the Dispatches programme, but added: "Hopefully they will show me in a positive light but you never know how these things are going to be edited - so we'll just have to wait and see."
Mr Jones said: "I chose to interview Pat Richardson as a subject because her background and political views make her an interesting subject.
"I'm hoping what we're putting together will make informative and entertaining television."
4:56pm Tuesday 13th May 2008
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