Having just watched the much publicised 'Question Time' I have come away a little confused.
I was expecting a loud mouthed shouting utter racist in the form of Nick Griffin to find that on some points I actually agreed with him. I wonder how many others thought that too ? Here was a much more polished and careful with his answers Griffin that appeared to be a changed man. Like all politicians, he has also tailored his answers to what may bring him some votes from a wider threshhold, and he appeared to have sold out his former alarmist viewpoints and seemed to be towing a more agreeable one.
The BNP is still a loathsome party but to see someone holding his own , being attacked by all the other panellists, the presenter, and a mainly ethnic Minority audience ( Naughty BBC) will almost certainly bring him some more fans and crucially more votes.
Instead of following the usual format, Question Time devoted 90% of the programme to attacking Griffin which I found rather boring and tedious and when they eventually got onto another topic - about Stephen Gateleys death and the reporting thereafter, it got a little more interesting. However even that was hijacked by militant gays who tried to quash and shout down anything they didnt agree with.
I would have preferred the usual format of Question Time as it would have brought out what Griffin really thought about current events rather than the tailored racism rants that emanated.
Isnt it amazing how Politicians change after they have been elected ? The Programme just after Question Time had the revolting Dianne Abbot- a prime example of just how status and money corrupts. Before she was elected , she used to shout about private schools and that they should be abolished etc ...and what does she do once she was elected ? Her kids are in a very expensive private school.
I am certainly NOT a supporter of the BNP......but I fear that Nick Griffin has a lot more supporters after being featured in his own show in the form of 'Question Time'.
A boring and disappointing programme that reduced itself to base questions and sometime uncontrolled blatant hysterics to pander to what it thought its viewers wanted.....and got it drastically wrong.
This disgusting episode of question time turned in to and was probably planed to be a lynching of the one man that stands up to the three main parties who as we all know are totally corrupt and money grabbing liars.
As I understand it Mr Griffin had a hard time getting in to the studio only to be confronted by a chorus of hysterical fools hand picked to give him a rough time.
Any one of us would have been on edge having that sort of welcome party ahead of them. I think considering the way he was attacked he although nervous held his head high and stayed reasonably calm.
Question time is supposed to consider all aspects of every day problems including politics and not as was seen last evening.
Had the audience been of normal every day people i'm sure that we would have found out a great deal more about Mr Griffins thoughts and ideals than we actually did.