Sympathy for Griffin

Nick Griffin’s disastrous appearance on Question Time appears to have gone down badly even among his own supporters.

The Observer reports that Lee Barnes, the BNP’s legal officer (and what a demanding job that must be), has used his personal website to criticise Griffin for failing to take the opportunity to press home the attack on “the sanctimonious, hypocritical middle classes”.

Given that it is the middle classes, sanctimonious and hypocritical or otherwise, who make up a large proportion of Question Time’s audience, it is hard not to feel some sympathy for Griffin in the quandary that must have been presented to him.

But, on balance, I think I can resist the temptation.