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Nick Griffin on Question Time with Jack Straw, Chris Huhne, Sayeeda Warsi and Bonnie Greer

It was interesting watching Question Time this evening for many reasons. The hype behind Nick Griffin's appearance was nothing more or nothing less than was expected really.

Jack Straw started the evening off talking about MPs having a moral compass!! ( Yes Jack, but it's stuck at magnetic North! )

The programme was as most people were expecting a verbal beating for Nick Griffin. Equally expected was his poor performance in response to questions about race, religion, immigration . . . . and so on. His constant insistence about his " mis-quotes " in the press were almost farcical. Trying to deny and twist video evidence to the British public on his various quotes is both foolish and naive.

I'm afraid that Jack Straw made an equally poor impression on the occasions he wasn't launching into Griffin, when he was questioned several times on immigration. Bonnie Greer held herself with decorum throughout and was both calm, gracious and polite whilst being sat next to Nick Griffin for the programme. Chris Huhne was Jack Straw's equal in attacking Griffin but faired slightly better with his answers, whilst Sayeeda Warsi came across as someone who had interesting opinions and correctly challenged Jack Straw regarding the Labour Party and their lack of cohesive immigration policy. She fielded her questions well and put a positive foot forward in representing the Conservative party . . . I think?

I was actually hoping that the show would have more variety of questions for Nick Griffin, and that the other politicians would challenge him on a greater variety of policies than just race, as was mostly the case. We are all aware of the BNP and their policies of race, but it would have been far more entertaining to have challenged him on other policies; such as economic policy, the NHS and banking reforms but to mention the tip of the iceberg!

I think that the MPs lost a golden opportunity to really humiliate Nick Griffin and despite his sweaty, twitchy and nervous answers, I'm sure he will have appealed to a small minority of people.

To top it off at the end of the programme, Jack Straw came full circle back to Mps and their moral standing ( should have been lack of them and I would say it's more stooping or squatting than standing?).