In the wake of what was a disastrous Question Time for Nick Griffin, when it would be sensible to allow the BNP leader’s intellectually threadbare argument to speak for itself, Peter Hain still can’t resist sticking his oar in:
“This could end up blighting the lives of many decent people in Britain just because they are not white. The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history.”
I know Peter means well, but he really ought to leave this one alone. The BBC actually did everyone a favour by allowing Griffin to hang himself politically.
I would criticise the Beeb, however, for allowing the questions to linger too long in Griffin’s comfort zone of race. If they had ranged across the gamut of contemporary political issues, they would have done more to highlight the fact that the BNP is in truth nothing more than a lame and unattractive one-trick pony.
I thought Peter was orange not white….
Whilst I deplore everthing that Griffin stands for, I couldn’t help but notice that Straw’s abysmal performance, when questioned on Iraq and immigration, will buoy the BNP’s supporters.
I do not support the B.N.P; but Question Time was a disgusting display of “let’s get Nick Griffin” whereby the audience, the panel and the chairman where evidently completely biased. The whole programme was on one subject confining the lone Griffin to the lower ground, whilst the attacking armies fired at will from the surrounding hills. This was not British and showed me real discrimination.
As for the pompous Peter Hain who believes that the British public are unable to form their own opinions without his intervention, May the Lord preserve us from him and his like in another Labour govenment where every single aspect of our lives will be dictated by these prigs. The expences scandal and Labours nanny state mentality show that nothing has been learnt from Animal Farm and Brave New World, let alone Voltaires comment about defending to the death one’s right to “say it”.
Persons like Hain think they are it. He & his cohorts work for us. Not the other way round