The leader of the British National Party and MEP, Nick Griffin, finally appeared on the BBC current affairs programme ‘Question Time’ last night. There has been a lot of debate in the British media about whether he should have been allowed to appear on this programme, as most people believe that the BNP is a racist, fascist political party. My gut feeling is that the BBC should not have given him a platform as I find his views and his party’s manifesto to be abhorrent. However, when the state and what is in effect, state television starts to censor a democratically elected politician, we start to head down a route to tyranny far worse than the BNP. How can you accuse Nick Griffin of being a fascist then not let him have his right to free speech, not matter how much it sticks in your throat?
My hope is that his appearance on this programme will hopefully let those, let’s be honest, thick, white, ill-educated casual supporters of the BNP who really believe that the BNP is not a racist, fascist party to see through Nick’s thin veil of political respectability. I’ll leave you with this recent Exposé of the BNP.
Let the bugger have his say: his party have enough of the vote to enjoy that right. Pray that he makes as much of a fool of himself as we think he will. Very nice blog, keep up the good work.
“thick, white, ill-educated casual supporters”
Would that be like the same supporters of labour, who think there hands are clean of blood.