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?).
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I guess from my point of view, there's nothing more desperate ( and pathetically funny ) than a political party creating a splinter organisation to brow beat their competition ( the BNP ), rather than deal with their own serious problems! Welcome aboard the Nothing British about the BNP bus!
A a time when the public ( including me ) what to see action over MPs greed, corruption, fraud, tax evasion and amoral and unjust expense claims - the Tory party would rather focus on having a go at the BNP.
Please David Cameron, get your own house fully in order before you get a few of your " tory boys " on the BNP's case!
You're actually doing nothing to help your cause and moving the focus fully onto the BNP, and giving them far more media attention than they deserve. Wouldn't you rather tackle them head on in a debate with a battle of the minds? OBVIOUSLY NOT...!
I personally believe that the major parties are running scared. They've been in their ivory towers for too long, developing their property portfolios on the back of taxpayers money, squeezing every last penny they can each year from their expense accounts, avoiding Capital Gains Tax by consistently swapping their primary residence designation at every opportunity and relaxing on their ever increasing holidays ( now they have 144 days holiday a hear - nearly 5 months!!!!! WOW ).
They have COMPLETELY forgotten and abandoned the working man in the street, and that is what has driven him into the arms of the BNP, and they know it. They are SOLEY responsible for the rise of the BNP and if they'd done their jobs properly instead of focusing on personal gain, the country would be in a much better state and there would be far less unemployment and discontent.
On their website they say that " We believe in addressing the concerns of those people who feel alienated from their society by government failures on issues like immigration, Europe, religious extremism and job insecurity. This means campaigning for policies that work. "
Yet they mention nothing about honesty, integrity, accountability, professionalism - the key attributes that it seems most MPs are lacking! They don't mention the current government that's drowning in it's own quagmire of sleaze, greed, corruption and scandal.
I'd like to know how they're going to " address the concerns of those people who feel alienated from their society by government failures " by focusing on the BNP? They way they're going about things makes them no better than the BNP I'm afraid!!!
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Peter Hain, in his column in the guardian on Sunday ( 11th October 2009 ), tried to put forward reasons why he thought that Nick Griffin ( the Leader of the BNP ) shouldn't be allowed to appear on the BBC's Question Time.
He says, and I quote in the first paragraph: " It flies in the face of all the BBC's core values as the world's most respected broadcaster: to promote diversity in the UK, tolerance, fairness and our parliamentary democracy " when talking about the BBC letting Nick Griffin's party represent itself.
< shouting very loudly > Peter Hain, promoting " fairness and parliamentary democracy " is EXACTLY why the BBC have invited Nick Griffin onto Question Time! They have every right to be represented as a legitimate political party with elected representatives.
He goes on to say " In June, at the European election that triggered this BBC decision, many voted for the BNP as a protest against the mainstream parties at the height of the MPs' expenses scandal. "
Yes Peter Hain, you would be VERY familiar with the MPs expenses scandal and other serious improprieties, having to resign from the cabinet in the face of campaign donation irregularities in 2008!
I think to be honest, people would rather see a genuine and open racist being challenged in a debate, than a dishonest, untrustworthy and seriously amoral MP dancing his way round the questions of immigration, public finances, expenses and salaries for " fat cats "? I KNOW I WOULD!
If the day comes, when the current government can dictate which other political parties are allowed to appear/be represented in the media, that'll be the day that democracy dies and we lose the right to free speech.
I think that the current " main stream " political parties are scared of the BNP because they appeal to the lost and forgotten working classes that Labour left behind 12 years ago. They're all scared that the BNP MIGHT actually get more votes and gain popularity and eventually become a main stream party themselves!
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