The BNP's Nick Griffin on Question Time, what are your thoughts?

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Shouldn't we be pleased that DP is on this thread, rather than demonising her? We all accept that there are BNP voters out there - well, this is our oppurtunity to find out why. An exchange of ideas.

I am relieved that he was shown up to be (My new favourite word thanks to MN) TWUNT! he is. It was like the rantings of a madman - which IMHO he probably is!

Yes Vicar, you?

oh hi bc....thought you were avoiding me..?

i need to sleep..

g'night

'He came across well'??!!

Yes VulpusinaWilfsuit. I think he came across well and no, I did not serious misjudge.

In what way lollopops?

How surprising. dp avoids a direct question.

Do you know what? That sounds to me like she doesn't care that two year olds and other non-whites get attacked/ bullied/ whatever as a direct result of the BNP's success. If it did matter to you, dp, you'd have said so ages ago.

Despicable.

i do dreams - ive seen david dimbleby put down people far quicker!

i thought he was treated with the contempt he deserves to be honest. shown up for what he really is. ive seen david dimbleby do that before now

Just watched it, he came across really badly thank god. He was really twitchy and shifty looking and kept laughing at inappropriate moments. Oh, and the 'genocide' comments were really badly judged.
I can't believe anyone would vote for him based on this performance, abhorrent policies aside, he just looked totally out of his depth

Hey, melons - how's the sleep thing going?

I still think it was a mistake to have him on. There will be bnp supporters celebrating the fact that their man got to be on QT, they won't give a toss what he said, probably won't have even watched the programme.

VulpusinaWilfsuit: In the way that he will not lose votes in his perfomance tonight, more than likely gain more votes

But he is the moderator - he shouldn't be treating anyone with contempt, and he should have forced NG to expand on his policies rather than allowing others to jump in with pre-prepared soundbites.

I'm not his biggest fan, but I think he failed in his job tonight.

"pre-prepared"??

Sorry - no idea where that came from.

Maybe he should be on TV more so we can all laugh and point?

'MMH....there are attacks on white people by blacks and asians....what do you think about that..?'

God, you sound like my parents.....that's not a compliment. Luckily as I grew up I realised that their political stand point on things was not something to aspire to. I learned how not to occupy my head space with these small minded perspectives.

hazeyjayne i think it wasnt - hopefully all those idiots who think its ok to vote for him out of some misguided protest will now have their eyes well and truly opened.
im hoping and praying my colleagues do. they all support the BNP. ive been in a new job a week and am struggling with this big time - anything that shows him to be a twat is good imo!

dreams - dimbleby often wades in - if he had sat on the sidelines id have thought he was making allowances. he acted as he normally does.

I thought Bonny Greer was so weak I was ashamed.

Daft punk - how about emailing me your address? I have something our local BNP put through my letterbox when they saw me handing out leaflets about stopping Question Time maybe you'd like back.

Hi MMH, it's going badly of course! I'm gonna try what you suggested tonight.
Did I see right, a grown man picking on your 2 year old?

so daftpunk finally comes out of the closet.... not like it wasn't obvious before. I could say well done for being honest, but an honest facist is still a facist.

Griffin wasn't humiliated nearly enough, they should have given him enough rope to hang himself with.

I think it was correct to have this programme. IMO would have been better if Dimbleby could have behaved not exactly in his usual style, but instead bent over backwards to be more than fair to the repulsive NG. He should have been given the maximum amount of rope with which to hang himself... he still did a pretty good job of it though (e.g. practically giggling and making pointy hat gesture when KKK came up, and pointing out that the bloke he shared a platform with headed an 'almost totally non-violent Klan' like that made it absolutely fine....)

He got his free publicity by the BBC. Anti-fascists being arrested on his behalf. Manipulating the panel. Making excuse after fucking excuse about his vile comments.

He did well. His cronies aren't going to care that he looked a tit, they'll probably blame that on the fact that he was uncomfortable sitting next to a Jew, Black and Asian. People were expecting him to come out with his usual racist rhetoric. He didn't but why would he? He would have ended up banned and that would have served no purpose.

It was all a sham but he and his party came across well.

Hazeyjane I'm with you.

And how many more times will we now see him on tv now they've made it ok. I promise all the nice women on here earlier that if he does something in London & I can get there you'll see me on tv (or not) shouting at him (in my MB S&B advised leather skirt & new boots!) for all our kids.

monkeysmama, I thought Bonnie Greer was restrained, not weak. She was clever and funny, and also made a really important point about the BNP basing their policies on an idea of an 'indigenous' population which is completely false.
She also pointed out that anyone with any sense would see NG/ the BNP for what they were and that there was no need to sheild the British public from him because, generally speaking, people have got more sense.
What would you have like to see her do? I'm glad she didn't lose her cool. He's an idiot, she is far superior.