Aww, poor Nick has his feelings hurt...

[threaded]

I should add that if the BNP actually get in, I would flee the country (again).

Yeah, some contractors I've met in Scandi told me they voted labour for much the same reasons. The irony.

[KentPhilip]

Anyone prepared to admit they voted BNP

I will be voting BNP.

I (when in the UK) am in a safe Tory seat, and it is the Tories who I want to be in government, because they are a lesser evil than Labour.
But they are still going to be crap, and under "lettuce leaf" Cameron will continue many of the policies that have caused a lot of harm to the country (and us contractors).

So the BNP are the only real opposition now, as the other parties get closer to one another in terms of policy and execution.
By increasing the popular vote for the BNP, I'll be doing my (small) bit in making the other parties aware that they do have an opposition, and that voters do have a real choice. i.e. it will keep them in line.


I should add that if the BNP actually get in, I would flee the country (again).

[moorfield]

Aww, poor Nick has his feelings hurt...

just worked out how to keep the BNP all over the front pages for another day


If there's one thing I (grudgingly) admire him for it is being just as good as all the mainstream politicians at playing the meedja, and they are all lapping it up like idiots.

[Moscow Mule]

The BBC is supposed to be impartial. In this case, it was anything but. Even Dimblebum was on the attack. They (BBC) blew it, big time, in their over-eagerness to demonise Griffin.

A better panel, a more neutral audience, and the usual QT format would have elucidated much more. From the shambles that was last night's QT, I am none the wiser about what the BNP really stands for, or why I should oppose or support it.

My gut instinct is to oppose it, but I would like to have the opportunity of having some concrete data to inform my opinion. QT certainly wasn't the forum for that.

What did they do when Nigel thingie (UKIP) was on for the first time? I expect most of the questions weren't about Europe...

[wurzel]

It was very poor.

All it needed was a few BNP members in the audience to do their worst and let Nick chat a little more and job done.

I read somewhere that there were 9 party members in there. That guy who asked the question about whether he'd done much travelling before was obviously one of them, or so it appeared to me.

[bogeyman]

It wasn't a perfect layout/format for the BNP, but what the tulipe did he expect - the red carpet treatment. If he couldn't hack this kind of exposure and pressure, he should stay at home.

In short, he put in a poor performance and now wants to blame the BBC for that, rather than address his own failings.

He knew he was putting his hand in the fire - and now complains that he got burned.

The BBC is supposed to be impartial. In this case, it was anything but. Even Dimblebum was on the attack. They (BBC) blew it, big time, in their over-eagerness to demonise Griffin.

A better panel, a more neutral audience, and the usual QT format would have elucidated much more. From the shambles that was last night's QT, I am none the wiser about what the BNP really stands for, or why I should oppose or support it.

My gut instinct is to oppose it, but I would like to have the opportunity of having some concrete data to inform my opinion. QT certainly wasn't the forum for that.

[Glazza]

I thought I was watching the Jerry Springer show.

[centurian]

It wasn't a perfect layout/format for the BNP, but what the tulipe did he expect - the red carpet treatment. If he couldn't hack this kind of exposure and pressure, he should stay at home.

In short, he put in a poor performance and now wants to blame the BBC for that, rather than address his own failings.

He knew he was putting his hand in the fire - and now complains that he got burned.

[snaw]

The audience was a lynch mob. At one point, someone clapped a comment from Griffin, and the audience looked around hatefully to see who it was that had the temerity to clap.

Ugly. A massively ugly charade.

It was very poor.

All it needed was a few BNP members in the audience to do their worst and let Nick chat a little more and job done.

[bogeyman]

The audience didn't appear to contain any BNP supporters, so where are the 1m people who voted for this shower?

The audience was a lynch mob. At one point, someone clapped a comment from Griffin, and the audience looked around hatefully to see who it was that had the temerity to clap.

Ugly. A massively ugly charade.

[minestrone]

There should have been BNP supporters in the crown ready to ask the three main other parties what they are going to do about immigration, that I do believe, I would say he has a point. The program was about the BNP and not about the issues they want to speak about, the BBC did set him up for a ratings boost.

Usual 'I don't vote for them disclaimers'

[centurian]

The audience didn't appear to contain any BNP supporters, so where are the 1m people who voted for this shower?

Anyone prepared to admit they voted BNP

[Zippy]

The audience didn't appear to contain any BNP supporters, so where are the 1m people who voted for this shower?

[centurian]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8322322.stm

So after the BBC took quite a bit of heat to allow him on the programme in the first place, he then has the audacity to complain to the BBC over his treatment on the show.

FFS, what did he expect.

"saying he had faced a "lynch mob"."

Does he mean like the KKK do - whose leader he seemed so fond of supporting...