Question Time Pantomime
2009 October 16
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n9p81/Question_Time_15_10_2009/
Between 57mins 22 secs to the end. Listen for slightly late shout of
Oh no it isn’t
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n9p81/Question_Time_15_10_2009/
Between 57mins 22 secs to the end. Listen for slightly late shout of
Oh no it isn’t
What I knew about the BNP before last night’s QT: A racist agenda glossed over with the relatively moderate facade of ‘Britishness’.
What I know about the BNP after last night’s QT: A racist agenda glossed over with the relatively moderate facade of ‘Britishness’.
I’d have liked to see a normal QT debate around a broad range of issues but it was a 100% BNP focussed circus, playing to Nick Griffin’s rehearsed rhetoric. Lots of spleen venting but no pertinent questions.
I liked the woman who said something like
“science has found the human race started in Africa so we’re all ethnic minorities…”
Eh, how can we all be in the minority?
I think the Tory party should be treated exactly the same as the BNP. Every time a Tory MP appears on Question Time, the rest of the panel should round on them and explain to the audience how their values will not be tolerated in a decent society.
I thought it was a fun hour of telly. I can’t see the BNP picking up any votes on the back of Nick Griffins’ performance which has already been described as ‘Adolf Brent’. He laughed uncomfortably anytime he got a question he couldn’t answer without coming across a racist (ie all the time). I suppose it was relatively easy for the other speakers to score points against someone so out of touch with reality, but I did think Jack Straw was excellent, much better than I would have previously given him credit for.
Anyway, I think this issue will go away next year when the Tories win the election. As someone last night said, Thatcher made the NF an irrelevance because she adopted so many of their policies and you can be sure that when David ‘Emperor Palpatine’ Cameron and his Empire, I mean Party, show their trues right-wing colours in office all the Little Englanders will be happy again that a truly racist party is back in No.10.
On an unrelated note, I hear Ken Clarke say on radio yesterday that one of the first things the Tory Government will do will be to completely privatise the Royal Mail (ie it will cost more and deliver less to customers.) I think this, alas, is the shape of things to come.
Unless, boys, anyone fancies starting a revolution?
That the BNP are racist is a given though, everyone knows this, so nothing was achieved. Griffin’s answers were only greeted with more questions, not further debate and he was the centre of attention. Although he fumbled his way through a lot of it it was the rest who truly messed up…
- Straws bombastic praise of the soldiers who fought in the war blown out of the water as his father was revealed as a conscientious objector (not what I feel about the issue but I wouldn’t imagine the type of person who is liable to vote BNP would find this admirable)
- ‘science has found the human race started in Africa so we’re all ethnic minorities’ > point made by mormanski
- ‘It’s African-Caribbean, not Afro-Caribbean!’ > To the best of my knowledge either can be used and neither are derogatory in any sense.
- Bonnie Greer going back to the ice age.
- The curly haired smuggo in the front row.
- Jack Straw to a black man ‘I don’t know if you are descended from an immigrant family’.
- The ovation given to the Tory pledging to clamp down on immigration.
If the beeb had filled the audience with BNP followers it would truly have shown the party up, warts & all. In the end Griffin was given all of the attention and was able to bodge his way thorugh it and seem victimised.
I don’t think so. Anyone who left the programme felling sorry for Griffin or that he had a fair point was already likely a BNP voter at the start of the programme.
It was worth having him on, no question. And it was right he challenged throughout for his views.
I don’t think so. Anyone who left the programme felling sorry for Griffin or that he had a fair point was already likely a BNP voter at the start of the programme.
It was worth having him on, no question. And it was right he challenged throughout for his views.
I don’t think so. Anyone who left the programme felling sorry for Griffin or that he had a fair point was already likely a BNP voter at the start of the programme.
It was worth having him on, no question. And it was right he challenged throughout for his views.
Twice? Thrice?
Honestly, whoever designed this website deserves shot.
It’s utterly piss poor.
Twice? Thrice? Three times a website.
Aye Mormanski. It should be easier to use. Easy like Sunday morning. Yea-ahh.