Categories: just-life
Date: 22 October 2009 23:31:07
Well, despite Blade being on the other side I decided to watch Question Time with the BNP's leader, Nick Griffon MEP making his debute, and I was pleasently surprised... not by Nick but by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi who I was expecting to be totally out of her depth, and while she might not have been as strong as one of the Tory heavyweights she wasn't washed over like I was fearing.
Mr Griffon was, unsurprisenly, unabashed about those views of his that he felt he could get away with and terribly evasive on those that he wouldn't have gotten away with. I did laugh when he said he was unable to tell us why he was no longer apparently a holocaust denier because european laws prevented him from talking about such things... even after Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, promised that nothing would happen to him.
Actually, there were a couple of good laughs at he BNP's leader when he was put under pressure of "what-he-thinks" comapred to "what-he-can-get-away-with". Just that pause as he wasn't able to say his first answer but had to come up with a more acceptable version.
Of course, outside the fools that make up Unite Agaisnt Facism spent the day making trouble... I feel that they just don't realise that if they, and others like Peter Hain, hadn't make such a fuss chances are that that no-one would have seen him on the TV (afterall, who actually watches QT??) and he wouldn't have gotten extra press in the newspapers this week.
As my dad said, it wasn't so much the being on QT that was the Christmas pressie for the BNP but all the fuss in the press that was brought up by those who are anti-BNP...