On the QT,,,

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

Opinions?

Comments

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Indeed. But usually Question Time pick local (or at least regional) politicians to face a local audience. The BNP don't have much of a standing in West London, so I didn't understand why they'd picked a BNP politician to face an audience that never votes BNP.

I mean, what was the point? We already know that people in West London don't vote BNP. We learned nothing about WHY people in BNP areas vote BNP, something that we NEED TO KNOW if we are going to fight them.

If security concerns prevented the filming from happening elsewhere, fine, but they should have shipped in the audience from a BNP-voting area. It's not as if the programme is aired live anyway, and none of the audience questions addressed any current political issues; it could have quite easily been filmed several months ago.

[malal.livejournal.com]

That came up on the Andrew Marr program this morning. QT goes all around the country, and it was West London's turn. Nick Griffen knew that was where it would be held when he agreed to come on the program. He had the option to "actually, can I come on it the week after".

Unless you wanted the BBC to take special measures in light of him coming on? I don't think the BBC were prepared to do that as well as having him on the program, particularly as the reasoning they were giving was "we have to do this as the normal course of events".