Nick Griffin is a poisonous politician and no doubt an odious man judging by some of the quotes attributed to him in last nights question time, however I think his message on immigration is valid, not the extreme views again attributed but denied by him of removing every coloured person from this Country, but the curb on further immigration.
I myself suggested a freeze on immigration of up to a decade or more, but that wasn’t to stop “foreigners” it is to relieve pressure on our overstretched economy and public services. Does this make me a racist I don’t think so, my family and I arrived in this Country in 1960 and I have lived here all my life, I to am an immigrant.
He was not given a chance to string more than a sentence together thus denying him the opportunity to hang himself, the BBC have unintentionally or maybe intentionally given Griffin the best free publicity and the biggest audience, estimates put it at 5 million than he could have dreamt of.
Unlike most of the press reports today I don’t think he came out of last nights show to bad in fact some of the panel made him look good, he also scored some valuable points with his comment to Jack straw about the Labour party handing the Country over lock stock and barrel to Europe.
Most of the audience reaction was predictable and childish they booed him as the bad guy and cheered anyone in the audience that called him names or mentioned Auschwitz. Griffin should be booed and rightly marginalised but he was on the show to put his views across and then the public could judge him and his party, instead it turned into a witch hunt and he can justifiably claim victory this morning.
I watched it last night too - and to be honest it was a wasted opportunity as they should have given Mr Griffin more time to express his views and party policies.
ReplyDeleteWeather they were agreeable or not, the point of the programme was to invite him to express his views and let the people decide. Instead, and I'm not defending him, it was a rabble audience, and not enough probing questions with sufficient time for an answer.
A wasted opportunity, as I believed on immigration control and Europe, he had some valid points (capping and surrendering power to EU), but if he had been given more time, and moved beyond race, we would have seen a single-issue party exposed as wholly deficient.