Reaction to Question Time and the BNP

It was pretty much compulsory for me to watch Question Time yesterday. Little did I realise that it would be like watching a man get stoned (not getting high haha) to death in the Middle East. Question Time turned into a coliseum, as an audience of crazed members of the public applauded everytime a blow was dealt to Nick Griffin, and quite literally, egged each other on to attack Griffin even further.

Now this may sound like I am defending Griffin and the BNP, but believe me, the last thing we need is a party with the potential to quite literally start a civil war between races, to be prominent in British politics. I just thought the way the people on the show conducted themselves was a bit, well, sh*t really.

Jack Straw used the whole thing to try and dump the massive pile of sh*t that's currently sitting on top of the Labour Party onto the BNP. He nearly cleared all the manure when he was asked about how Labour's immigration policy could have led to the rise of the BNP. He twisted and squirmed and didn't really give an answer. Let's get the shovel and put the sh*t back where it came from...

Then there was the audience. Rather than see what Griffin's views on postal strike/economy/other current issues, we got an entire hour dedicated to Griffin's shady past. By all means, interrogate him in to why he can feasibly think the Holocaust didn't exist, ask why he believes Britain should be 'colourless like the South Pole'. But then move on. All these people who are moaning today about how giving Griffin the limelight was a bad idea. Well, if maybe you hadn't dedicated the ENTIRE program to him like some kind of memorial, we may have come away from Question Time with something other than the image of the weird looking face of Griffin.

Now, I hate protestors at the best of times. I have absolutely no sympathy with any of them if they get hurt or injured by the police. But yesterday, to protest against a 'violent and racist organisation' with, ermmm, remind me again, oh yeah, VIOLENCE. Injuring policeman and creating scenes that look more like the battles in Lord of the Rings. Well done. I hope all you slacking hippies get thrown into some fascist-flavoured shark-infested water.

And now the big man himself, Mr. Griffin. Didn't do himself LOADS of favours yesterday. He mostly sat there whilst everyone around him just shouted stuff. I imagine he probably just turned his ears off after a while; I would have. There was something troubling though about Griffin's performance. He kept a fairly low profile, didn't say much, and the things he did say was to try and worm his way out of his previous actions. It was almost as though he was temporarily hiding his racist ways, like when a child cleans his room and just stuffs all his toys in the cupboards. His mum's always going to find the mess, and it may even be worse when she finds it. That's probably the worst analogy I could have come up with, but still. Who knows, but the backlash from yesterdays Question Time will be massive. Over and out xD