Categories: just-life
Date: 16 October 2009 11:38:58
Next week there is going to be a potentially explosive (figuratively speaking) episode of Question Time when the leader of one of Britain's more shameful (or possibly shameless) political parties gets to sit on the panel. He is, of course, Nick Griffon of the British Nazi National Party.
Now like everyone who has more than two brain cells, I find pretty much everything that the BNP stands for fairly abhorant. Therefore I'm quite looking forward to seeing a representitive of the Far Right come up against a world class debater (I so hope that's it's William Hauge) and so it can be shown, on national television, just why we don't want such groups as the BNP running about the countryside. There is however a slight problem, just the tiniest potential glitch in this glorious sand-bagging of the 'Furer'... and that comes from the anti-far right campaign group United Against Fasism.
You see, the problem is that the UFA have announced that they are planning to protest the BBC and if possible prevent Nick Griffon from getting tot he studio. In my opinion, as ultruistic as the UFA's intentions are, this is a terrible idea. What better excuse could the BNP use for not showing up, for not being shown up, than to be prevented from their right to free speech by "the liberals of society".
If you wanted to show to your slightly less commited members/voters on the fence that some of the basic principles that supposedly make this country great are being eroded by the more liberal elements that are sweeping the nation, what better way than to be prevented from going onto a political debate show...?? I do honestly fear that if the UAF do indeed succeed they will infact be scoring a home-goal by giving the BNP an excuse that it is they who are being oppressed for their views.
This is by far the worse possibly outcome that could be achieved... to allow the BNP to fly the "we are being oppressed" flag can in no way help the cause to allow people to realise that the BNP are really just a bunch of thugs.
There was an interview on the BBC news earlier in the week with some BNP members (wearing balaclavas so they couldn't be recognized) who, in an attempted to show that they weren't fasists in any way, burnt a Nazi flag... admitedly they couldn't get it to light until someone went and got some petrol (they must use more combustible flags in the Middle East where they burn flags on a more regular basis). All it left me thinking was, where did they get their hands on a Nazi flag...?? And does this mean that one of them now has a rather large space on his wall...??