10/23/2009: "BNP on question time"

it fascinates me the way that people react to different things, nick griffin on question time tonight was on a hiding to nothing.
the BBC had built the show up, the panelists from the 3 main parties had a scripted attack planned.
the BNP leader didnt really have a chance of making any impact, yet managed (along with a couple of audience member questions to jack straw) to highlight much of what is wrong with todays world (in my opinion of course)

i am no fan of the BNP, i couldnt give a monkeys either way, but i do respect any person of any view's right to express that view. i might loathe it, support it or not have any particular feeling towards it.... but i would hate to be stopped from expressing a view and that should also apply to everyone else.

the contradictions on question time tonight were startling!
griffin was pinned down on immigration, being called a racist by jack straw, he squirmed abit but tried to answer, a couple of questions later a member of the audience asked if labours failures on immigration were to blame for more than a million people voting for the BNP, to which straw looked markedly uncomfortable and waffled for almost 10 minutes.... then another member of the audience absolutely nailed him on the subject... straw had no answer!
straw admitted that labour were limiting the numbers coming to the UK, but when griffin also stated he wanted to limit numbers in the same way, before he could finish, straw quipped that it was an argument about skin colour... with the libdem joining in and another 5 minute racist rant from the main parties.

the one single question that (as dimbleby told us) "didnt want the whole show to be about the bnp" - was about the stephen gately article by the daily mail, odeus said jack straw, but "i respect their right to publish as they have done nothing illegal" - so how does this compare to the BNP expressing their points of view?
dimbleby normally very good at chairing the program then instantly tried to pin the anti gay question on griffin... so every single question in the show was aimed at the bnp being racist (they may well be, i dont really follow them to be honest) and anti gay.... the fact that griffin stated his party dont want any sexual education taught in primary schools was ommitted from the clips being shown on all the news bulletins.
the news bulletins since the show aired have been one sided also... he was slated by a gent in the audience who asked where he would have to go since he is a "non white" yet british through and through..... the news didnt show the answer that griffin gave.... you are more than welcome to stay we wouldnt ask you to leave at all...... but that would undermine the bbc's own news report!

a classic revelation of the show was the libdem's claiming to have fought against opening our borders and allowing free movement of eastern block nationals into the UK..... not only did they support this they would have (if in power) have extended it even more than the original labour policy.

all in all i didnt expect anything deep, nor did i expect to hear much of what griffin was about..... but it was good fun watching a biased audience and panel gang up on him.... trying desperately to counter and ridicule him and his party.

the problem i have with this approach, is that if the three main parties policies were that strong and the correct ones, then surely they would have won the argument hands down?
the fact that they didnt get close to winning the argument shows that love or hate the BNP there must be an element of their policies that are based on facts that the major three parties cannot defend!