Well, anybody who thought that Question Time would be a stroll in the park for Nick Griffin MEP, had a rude awakening last night. Most Nationalists knew that the opposition politicos would be out to destroy Nick, but we didn’t know by which tactic the BBC would facilitate this. To be fair the BBC has played a blinder.
After sustaining very harsh attacks on their judgement from across the political spectrum we imagined that David Dimbleby would be under orders to scupper Nick at every turn, but it was not the other panellists who scored the hits, but the audience themselves. This is a clever move by the BBC because it absolves them of being accused of allowing the panellists to turn it into a witch-hunt. It allows the BBC to say ‘hey, look, we gave Mr Griffin a platform and the British public shot him down, that’s democracy’.
The audience itself appeared to be heavily composed of ethnic minorities, certainly an over-representation not reflecting the ethnic demographic of the UK, I suspect the BBC would say that it reflects the area it was filmed in (West London) and they’d probably be right.
At 20 minutes into the programme Nick looked shaken, he had just been attacked by the audience, host and panellists for a sustained period. This appears to have been the producers formula for the evening – smash him in the first 20 minutes, then 20 minutes recovery and finish him with the last 20; it is similar to a play-list selection for live rock bands, a blazing beginning, slower middle building up to a fast and furious ending. Only it didn’t quite work out, Nick had weathered the verbal storm of the first 20 and appeared to grow in confidence as the programme went on, contrary to Sky News he did land a few good hits.
Jack straw answered the first question with the logical fallacy of comparing the British National Party (BNP) to the 20 century Fascist regimes of Italy and Germany, of course, the dullards in the audience clapped like stupid seals. Nick countered with a great comment about Straw being the son of a coward – as his father was imprisoned for refusing to go to war, and therefore, Straw has no right to trade on the bravery of British troops – this enraged the seal-people, but Straw had no come back.
Baroness Warsi pretty much attacked everyone and refused to make clear her stance on civil partnerships, she also claimed that there ‘is no such thing as a bogus asylum seeker’, there is, as the vast majority of them are economic migrants.
Chris Huhne just sat there mumbling, what is the point of the Liberal Democrats? What is the point of Huhne? He tried desperately to make out that the Lib-Dems would be tougher on immigration, which Nick called him up on.
Bonnie Greer had her back turned towards Nick throughout the show, mocked his degree and generally tried to p0rtray herself as smart (lol). However, she left herself open when attempting to assign the Neanderthals as the indigenous population, they are a different species! It’s like saying that Monkeys were in Africa before Humans so Africans are not indigenous to Africa. Nick should have reminded her that the Neanderthals were wiped out by immigration, their birthrate was 0.1% below the rate at which they could have sustained their species, and competition from the immigrant Cro-Magnons sent their species over the edge.
Dimbleby had a few sly little digs, nothing of note.
I think some of us are being a little too critical of the performance, this is a new platform for Nick and it couldn’t have been easy being surrounded by a hostile audience and panel. He is ten times the man of Straw & Hunhe, those cretins would refuse to appear had the roles been reversed. The neutrals I have spoken to have all said that the panel was trying too hard, that it looked like a setup, and that is exactly the portrayal the producers wanted to avoid.
This was the establishment’s chance to bury Nick Griffin for good, in front of a massive home audience, and they failed.
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