I didn't watch all of the Question Time programme with Nick Griffin when it was first shown last week. Missing it was a no brainer: it clashed with a new episode of Curb your Enthusiasm, which I'd guess is not on Griffin's Sky+ recording list. However, I've seen it since, and I thought Griffin came out of it pretty badly, though arguably rather better than Jack Straw.
He could have come out of it a lot worse, though. It was a mistake for the BBC to confine the questions to race and immigration. Those are Griffin's territory, and they're also hot topics for a lot of potentially disaffected Labour voters. It would have been much better if the questions had covered other issues -- say, bank bonuses, the Royal Mail strike and global warming. Putting questions to Griffin on those topics would have revealed that he sees them through the prism of his awful racial views as well. (I'm guessing here, but I'd assume he thinks that the bankers are all Jews, the Royal Mail strikers are worried about losing their jobs to immigrants, and global warming is caused by flatulent foreigners or something of the sort). Exposing his lack of insight into the important topics of the day would have done much more to destroy his appeal than allowing him to spout nonsense about aboriginals or the ultra-leftist bias of the BBC.
Griffin is planning to complain about the way he was treated by the BBC, but at the same time he's claiming that the show led to a surge in membership enquiries for the BNP. He needs to watch his back, though. A splinter group within the BNP, the reassuringly-named Stormfront, thinks he made the party look silly. According to their spokesnazi, "the intelligent ones in the party want Griffin out".
The intelligent ones? What, both of them?
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