Monday 19 February, Assemble 5.30pm, outside the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London W1.

LMHR are keeping up the pressure for ‘BNP ballerina’ Simone Clarke to be sacked as a principal dancer at the English National Ballet. The ENB are holding their annual Gala fundraising dinner at the Dorchester. We have called a protest with Unite Against Fascism on Monday 19 February, 6pm outside the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London W1.

The ENB cannot be allowed to get away with arguing that Clarke’s BNP membership is a private matter and doesn’t contradict their duty as a publicly-funded body to promote diversity and equality. The ENB have confirmed they are unwilling to take action against Clarke, who was exposed by the Guardian newspaper as a member of the fascist British National Party (BNP). The ENB is arguing that the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000 does not apply to them. UAF and LMHR are arguing that given that Clarke has used her position in the publicly funded English National Ballet to justify her beliefs and promote her membership of the BNP in the Mail on Sunday, that the ENB has duty to investigate this. We believes that the Race Relations Amendment Act applies to the English National Ballet (ENB) as a publicly funded organisation. Simone Clarke?