Nick Griffin, BNP leader on BBC's Question Time

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So the obnoxious, convicted racist, Nick Griffin gets to broadcasts his grubby ideas to the nation tonight.

I am fully in favour and hope he that he gets exposed for the loathsome hatemonger that he is.





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When David Irving was interviewed, people complained that it just gives him a platform. The BBC replied -- quite correctly -- that it asked him tough questions. The problem, as the author of "Lying About Hitler" (Prof. Richard Evans) noted, is that they asked tough questions but didn't expose the lies in the following answers. Let's hope the BBC learned something.
 
Question Time has a very specific format, griffin is not going to be interviwed by the BBC at all (he will comment on questions posed by the audence) and is unlikely to face a grilling. Given the level of electrol support for the BNP baring them from QT would be worse than inviting them.
 
Skeptic said:
When David Irving was interviewed, people complained that it just gives him a platform. The BBC replied -- quite correctly -- that it asked him tough questions. The problem, as the author of "Lying About Hitler" (Prof. Richard Evans) noted, is that they asked tough questions but didn't expose the lies in the following answers. Let's hope the BBC learned something.
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Question time is a panel show. 5 guests and an audience who take turns to give their opinion on the questions of the day. The host manages the event and reads out the questions provided by the audience on the way in.

The host rarely quizzes the guests leaving that to the other panellists and the audience but he will occasionally “but in” to point out that the question is not being answered and the guest is drifting off topic.

Tonight the guests along with Griffin are Jack Straw, Labour. Baroness Warsi, Conservative. Chris Huhne, Lib Dem. & Bonnie Greer playwright.
 
Surely you have to let the idiots speak, otherwise how do you know that they're idiots?
 
Heard interview with someone from BBC this morning (driving to work so only partly concentrating).
BNP is a legitimate political party, BBC mandate does not allow them to decide which views can or cannot be aired. The government can do this by legislation.
Seems simple to me - they are entitled to have their say.
The audience and guests on QT can be pretty bloody minded sometimes - hopefully they will ask the right/difficult questions to show him up for what (I believe) he is.
I will be watching anyway.
 
Having seen the grilling some members of the public have given politicians who appear on Question Time, I'm confident that Griffin will get some pretty tough questions. Should be rather enjoyable to see him suffer.
 
This quote is pretty amazing: "'Yes, Adolf went a bit too far." Reminds me of Kryten responding to the corrupt future Rimmer: "Herman Goering is a bit dodgy?"
 
Arcade22 said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8321157.stm

"Anti-fascists" acting like blackshirts...why am i not surprised?
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Yeah, I'm sure we all remember those chilling scenes of Oswald Moseley's supporters standing placidly carrying signs. My God, it's a wonder British democracy survived such an onslaught.

Seriously, to pretend a few people jumping a barricade then being led back to the rest of the crowd is anything like the violence that the blackshirts perpetrated shows a hilarious lack of perspective. But I'm sure all of tomorrow's papers will pretend the protesters were all violent lunatics, because that's how our brave principled media work.
 
Perfume V said:
Yeah, I'm sure we all remember those chilling scenes of Oswald Moseley's supporters standing placidly carrying signs. My God, it's a wonder British democracy survived such an onslaught.

Seriously, to pretend a few people jumping a barricade then being led back to the rest of the crowd is anything like the violence that the blackshirts perpetrated shows a hilarious lack of perspective. But I'm sure all of tomorrow's papers will pretend the protesters were all violent lunatics, because that's how our brave principled media work.
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This isn't the first time a "few people" aka. far-left extremist have attacked and tried to disturb the BNP and it's supporters, but you know this very well, don't you?

These kinds of attacks are a violation of free speech and democracy it self.
 
Arcade 22, I am getting sort of concerned about the way you seem to sympathize with the likes of the BNP.
 
Perfume V said:
Yeah, I'm sure we all remember those chilling scenes of Oswald Moseley's supporters standing placidly carrying signs. My God, it's a wonder British democracy survived such an onslaught.

Seriously, to pretend a few people jumping a barricade then being led back to the rest of the crowd is anything like the violence that the blackshirts perpetrated shows a hilarious lack of perspective. But I'm sure all of tomorrow's papers will pretend the protesters were all violent lunatics, because that's how our brave principled media work.
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On the other hand, these kind of over the top protests give the BNP a chance to play the "we are matyrs for free speech" card and I don't think it is particularly smart to give them that opportunity.
 
Exactly. He should be allowed to speak, given that we have free speech in this country. That way, his views get heard, and everyone can realise that his views are disgusting.

The whole current anti-fascism movement is going about things very wrong. Show fascism as the intellectually bankrupt movement that it is, and let the political discussion move on.
 
A protest is not an "attack", nor is it anti-democracy or anti-freedom of speech. On the contrary, it is freedom of speech in action. If you want the Holocaust denier and his party full of weapons-stockpiling nutters to have their say, you have to accept that the overwhelmingly peaceful protesters should have their say too. Indeed, I would say that being offended by the latter and not the former represents a pretty skewed perspective.
 
Peaceful protest is perfectly fine. Storming the BBC TV Centre in an attempt to stop the filming (apparently) does allow the BNP to play the martyrs for free speech card.

And nice, David Dimbleby just pwned Griffin. Showed up the BNP's façade of hiding its extreme plans in favour of showing its moderate plans for now in order to get into power.
 
Dimbleby (the host) is getting involved - he's really having a go and not letting Griffin get away with anything.
 
I love it that Dimbleby is actually bringing up his old quotes. Fantastic stuff. The little **** is all over the place.
 
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