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I am not a "fair-minded Briton"... Legolas Send a noteboard - 23/10/2009 03:27:48 PM

Yes, I have seen that take on it, i think it was either in the Guardian or the Independent. I'm not that sold on it though, partly as I tend to think it is columns like that which are actually doing the job of making people think that, telling them they what they should think about it. The subtext is "if you aspire to be a fair minded British person, then you should be disgusted to see a nasty little bigot verbally attacked for his believes, having chosen to put himself in that position"


But when I see five people - one of them the presenter of the show, at that - and essentially the entire audience ganging up on one guy, at times in rather poor taste (that one guy who thought he was still in primary school and made the "Dick, I'm sorry, Nick" joke), I'm going to have a lot more sympathy for the one guy than I would otherwise have. And Griffin played that part rather well, actually, what with shaking his head or sometimes laughing along at the remarks made at his expense. Now if I was already disgruntled and already feeling that all the major parties are almost the same and ruining the country between the lot of them, like I imagine a lot of British people are, then this would only confirm that impression, and only strengthen Griffin's position of underdog and anti-establishment vote.
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