On the QT,,,

[mrph]

So... Nick Griffin on Question Time. Interesting viewing - I don't think he did terribly well.

Opinions?

Comments

[razornet.livejournal.com]

see my post

[purp1e-magic.livejournal.com]

It's friends-locked. Quick summary for the rest of us?

[razornet.livejournal.com]

I don't think the BNP should be prevented from appearing on QT or other politics based program.

On the other hand when he did get his platform we made a public burning out of it. You could just about smell the bloodlust coming out of the tv. Don't get me wrong, I fucking hate the geezer and I smiled along with everyone else while the strips were being tore off but I can't help feeling that in many ways this was as bad as denying the BNP the platform in the first pace. As burkesworks pointed out the audience of the show was primarily local to where it was being shot and in very hostile territory for NIck. People in BNP constituency aren't going to see restrained debate taking the BNP apart, they'll see an angry baying mob attacking principles they hold or have been persuaded to hold dear. They won't have heard the good bits, they'll have seen someone they support thrown to the lions.

Now Nick can use the same clumsy rhetoric and bullshit conspiracy theory to continue hating his way into larger support.

Of course I'm a grumpy old pessimist and also frequently wrong, but even given all said above it was rather fun to watch the slimey shitebag light himself on fire so effectively.

[bikerfaerie.livejournal.com]

This was what I thought. Yes, he looked like a total uneducated, fumbling moron to us, but what have his followers thought? Will his martyrdom to the baying mob make those who feel hard done to by our wicked multicultural society more resilient in their beliefs? I am a bit worried, but I guess it remains to be seen.

[kittentikka.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's my problem with it too, having seen it. Leading questions, and the people he wants to appeal to are probably not the QT demographic. So he has legitimacy, a kicked puppy expression (bulldog, in that case) and he'll recover.

On the other hand, one can hope it'll get debate moving where it has to.