señor ding dong
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That's a very big "if", isn't it?If our politicians are worth anything then they should out gun BNP's views on a live debate with ease.
The reason Mr. Griffin is a bit peeved today is because he didn't get to talk policy. As expected, the show became more or less a 50-odd minute personal attack on him, and issues like immigration, war, EU, etc, where he can actually score real points, got about 2 minutes worth of screen time. He actually got a fairly sympathetic round of applause from at least part of the audience on one or two occasions when he managed to address issues like that.
Make no mistake, misguided as it may be, there is real support for the BNP out there, and even though it was a piss-poor performance, I would think there might be more after Griffin's QT appearance. It really is a sad comment on British politics that people feel they have to turn to lunatic fringe thugs like that to get political support for reasonable concerns that simply aren't being adequately addressed by the two main parties. If there's any kind of silver lining to the emergence of the BNP in mainstream politics, it's that it might be a wake-up call for everyone else. Then again, that's probably another big "if".