A COLNE Valley village has the joint highest membership of the BNP in the Huddersfield area.
Details released this week show that seven people in the village of Golcar belong to the BNP.
The party’s membership list, including names, addresses, telephone numbers and jobs of 12,000 people, was leaked online this week.
The list has now been removed after BNP leaders complained that their members had been threatened.
The leaked document shows there are 104 party members in the Huddersfield area, with Golcar and Brighouse topping the list with seven.
Elland, Greetland, Almondbury and Longwood are next, with five members each, followed by Dalton, Fartown, Honley and Marsden on four.
The BNP won 944 votes in Golcar in this May’s Kirklees Council election, easily the party’s best performance in south Kirklees.
The leaked list also shows that the BNP has 74 members in north Kirklees, with 30 in Dewsbury and 19 in Batley.
The BNP once had three councillors in north Kirklees, two in Heckmondwike and one in Dewsbury East. But the party lost two of those seats this year.
Kirklees staff do not have to disclose membership of any political party.
Council leader Clr Robert Light, a Conservative, said there was no need for disclosure, although officials in higher-ranked positions had to sever any political affiliations.
He added: “The only reasons why anyone applying for a post with the council would have to reveal affiliation to any political group would be if councillors were involved in the recruitment and there could be a clash of interests.”
