What a complete waste of time and what a complete yawn the 'Nick Griffin' Edition of Question Time was!
I was all in favour of the man being invited onto the programme, because regardless of his views, democracy demands a voice for all people. I hoped for some sort of debate which would display what and who this man was and what he believed. I hoped for it and was sadly let down.
What I saw in the first twenty minutes was a series of quotes from Mr. Griffin which he was then asked to defend. This was the 'Let's interview Nick Griffin' show. The other puppets on the show were little more than window dressing and the event had about as much value and worth and the Muppets protesting against the man's presence outside the BBC Television Centre.
The panel members spoke only to condemn the man - comfortable for once that their woeful parties and their excesses in claims, duplicity in appointing people and hypocrisy were lost to the circus. We had a woman who knew about culture, apparently, but she was black, The Community Cohesion woman had little to add - everything was about Nick and attacking him and his awful party. Still, he kept on smiling - something which is easy of one has little wit or integrity.
It took twenty-five minutes to get a question which Jack Straw failed to answer and of course the answer was BNP related. Seems there is nothing that cannot happen without involving the BNP! Which was handy as he never got round to answering the question because to do so put his own party fairly and squarely in the frame!
The show was a complete waste of time and apart from the BBC pushing their viewing figures through the roof it served no real purpose - none at least if democracy and debate were to be served by this programme. It wasn't the bear pit I feared but neither was it the debating forum I desired and hoped for.
What was on offer was Nick Griffin with:
One failed party, one hopeful party, one non-existent party (politically and personality wise) and an American who knows about culture (now there's a novelty!!!).
Debate was seen about forty-five minutes into the show - bit of a too little, too late situation really!
"I don't want this programme to be all about the BNP", says Mr. Dimbleby, so let's talk about the late lamented Mr. Gately instead! From the sublime to the ridiculous.
Chris Huhne, using the, "I don't like what was written but will defend their right to write it," approach just added the cherry to this tosh! Of course, the woman in question was attacking homosexuality so she was of course in the wrong - not a vote-winner.
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