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.
Question Time and the BNP
- 22/10/2009 07:29:34 PM
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I think you gain more letting them speak them trying to silience them
- 22/10/2009 07:58:52 PM
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They like ratings.
- 22/10/2009 08:22:59 PM
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It's funny how equality means they have to let anti-equality groups on *NM*
- 22/10/2009 08:27:14 PM
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I think it's a good call from the BBC, and I do intend to watch it.
- 22/10/2009 08:41:25 PM
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Sorry, we're 20 years behind the rest of Europe because we have a system that makes it hard...
- 22/10/2009 10:33:08 PM
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I rather liked (if I can be forgiven for sounding like a broken record) ...
- 22/10/2009 10:57:10 PM
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BNP membership list
- 22/10/2009 11:01:34 PM
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I find the leaking of that to be disturbing.
- 23/10/2009 01:38:09 PM
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That was really quite disappointing.
- 22/10/2009 11:42:58 PM
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I thought it was perfectly executed.
- 22/10/2009 11:58:18 PM
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That's why I said it'd have been much more interesting without him.
- 23/10/2009 12:33:57 AM
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I think it exposed him as an non-viable alternative
- 23/10/2009 12:54:57 AM
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You clearly watched a different programme to me. *NM*
- 23/10/2009 12:57:59 AM
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At which point did it show he was anywhere near capable of being a serious politician
- 23/10/2009 01:15:20 AM
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At which point do you think any rational human being thought he was a serious politician?
- 23/10/2009 01:21:38 AM
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I think the Radio 1 interview a few weeks back did a better job of exposing their lunacy.
- 23/10/2009 01:06:19 AM
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Went about how I expected
- 23/10/2009 12:16:50 PM
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Pretty much my thoughts exactly
- 23/10/2009 01:22:56 PM
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Re: Pretty much my thoughts exactly
- 23/10/2009 02:14:50 PM
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I think we liked and disliked the same thing for the same reasons
- 23/10/2009 03:07:00 PM
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- 23/10/2009 03:07:00 PM
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I've already seen BBC interviews today out on the street
- 23/10/2009 02:14:13 PM
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It will be interesting to see any polls done, to see the actual impact.
- 23/10/2009 02:55:49 PM
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I am not a "fair-minded Briton"...
- 23/10/2009 03:27:48 PM
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