Watching This Week and Portillo is spot on. The amount of coverage the BNP are getting is disproportionate to the actual votes they got.
BNP - Could it really happen? Page 18
It wouldn't be so bad if the coverage were actually relevant.
Quote: Badge @ June 11 2009, 11:48 PM BSTWatching This Week and Portillo is spot on. The amount of coverage the BNP are getting is disproportionate to the actual votes they got.
That is spot on, people are beginning to make a mountain out of a mole hill. The amount of votes they got is still tiny given the fact that nobody actually seemed to vote. Getting people to vote is the main problem not what party is on power.
Quote: Aaron @ June 11 2009, 5:21 PM BSTThe whole of Europe is a colossal mistake and should be obliterated immediately. Naughty God.
You mean Europe the continent should be obliterated? The one we're geographically a part of? 
The amount of coverage Harold Shipman got was disproportionate to the actual number of pensioners we have.
Quote: Rhubarb @ June 12 2009, 10:18 AM BSTThe amount of coverage Harold Shipman got was disproportionate to the actual number of pensioners we have.
Quote: Griff @ June 12 2009, 3:47 PM BSTEspecially after he'd finished.
Quote: chipolata @ June 12 2009, 10:15 AM BSTYou mean Europe the continent should be obliterated? The one we're geographically a part of?
Europe the federalist-leaning institution and continental mainland Europe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8240206.stm
The BNP on Question Time?
Quote: bigfella @ September 6 2009, 12:12 PM BSThttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8240206.stm
The BNP on Question Time?
Best place for them.
They're a political party that ay represent views I disagree with. But too suggest they shouldn't be allowed to express them on a broadcaster funded by the public is fascism and censorship.
And besides I like watching toad faced Nick made to look stupid far more than I like seeing him egged.
Quite. Keeping people like the BNP from the public eye only perpetuates the mystique around them, and breeds ignorance to which we're all supposedly against in our objection to them. Giving people a legitimate platform with which to ridicule and make fools of themselves is the best way to combat their ideas. Look at the British media's portrayals of Hitler during the War: not as some kind of evil monster, but of a fool; contempt rather than fear.
And all ready they're being replaced by that bunch of boot boys who keep thumping people in Birmingham.
If you're referring to that 'English Defence League' or whatever it was, any mention of them seems to be qualified with "...associated with the BNP" as their main bad point - so not necessarily.
BNP + Question Time = Jerry Springer.
Once it's announced, BNP supporters will go to the studio, anti-BNP supporters will go down to the studio. They'll be lots of fights outside, inside and probably onto the streets afterwards.
Once inside, every time Nick Griffin opens his mouth, the anti-BNP will boo and shout, the pro-BNP will threaten to fight them. Dimbleby will have an eppy trying to calm the angry mobs. It will be chaos on a stick.
The other politicians will try to score cheap points with the usual platitudes and the whole thing will be a complete debacle. It will probably garner huge ratings for the Beeb though, as we're all going to watch it.
Should Nick Griffin appear? That's a tough one. He does have political support within the UK which is more then can be said for the gorm-faced comedians and pop stars Question Time has dragged onto the show to spice up ratings. But minority parties suck - BNP, Greens, Liberal Democrats. etc. - as they only ever have one policy which polarises the electorate.
My only real concern is the cost - extra security and policing is going to come from our license fee / tax money, which could be spent better elsewhere.
My advice to Labour is to treat it like 9/11, drop all your political bombshells on that day and they'll get buried behind the media circus that will be Nick Griffin on Question Time.
Cost of security should never be an impediment to political debate.
I want to see Nick Griffin for once in an open discussion. No baying pseudo lefty idiots, no cheering right wing thugs. He's an MEP and the leader of a party he has earned it.
As for the EDL they are proof of why the BNP is doomed. It can't disasociate itself from its core thuggish supporters and it can't sell itself to new smarter voters without doing that.
Which is why UKIP is cheerfully raping its political corpse.
UKIP taking the place of the BNP? I think you're heading down a potentially rather slanderous path on that one, nevermind a gross misunderstanding of the policies of both parties.