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Think that went pretty well. Griffin looked like a cackling idiot.
Jack straw looked almost human next to him and Bonnie Greer was sassy & I think i'm in lurv.
Didn't Griffin think it was a bit of an xmas present though? Think I need to re-watch, shame i-player doesn't work over here.
might think it might turn up on Pirate Bay, but not sure if Pirate Bay still operating right.
stevo

Stevo wrote:
Think that went pretty well. Griffin looked like a cackling idiot.
Jack straw looked almost human next to him and Bonnie Greer was sassy & I think i'm in lurv.
Didn't Griffin think it was a bit of an xmas present though? Think I need to re-watch, shame i-player doesn't work over here.
might think it might turn up on Pirate Bay, but not sure if Pirate Bay still operating right.
stevo
Before I saw it, I thought it may actually explode into one of those old US TV Geraldo Rivera Show type blow-outs.

Griffin was well and truly slammed down a few times.
I noticed that conservative 'baroness' Sayeeda Warsi, slithered out of her usual damning views on homosexuality, which I thought was a bit of a joke, I couldn't believe ol' Dimbledor after questioning her, he ended up not pushing it i.e. if you are pushing one bigot into the pit (even a more 'accepted' one), then push them all in.

Although, to Dimbledor's credit, he did mention uber-fascist Farrakhan in passing.

I found it strange how Jack Straw wouldn't (or couldn't) really comment properly on Immigration, even when goaded by members of the audience (of all races).

Chris Huhne just gives me shivers. I don't know what it is, I just think think he's lying in whatever he says, saying things just for 'effect' as it were-

So, yeah, all laughable except for Bonnie Greer.

Still, I suppose it wasn't a 'normal' edition of Question Time.

Has anyone thought though, does it mean that Nick Griffin will appear on QT again?

If he does, will it be in front of a West London audience again or a Bradford audience?
Which would probably be a different kind of show to say the least (i.e. more hostile)

The UK newspapers have had a ball with it all though, with one even stealing from ol' Billy Bragg with "Dedicated Swallower Of Fascism"

Yep. I was wary beforehand, as I wasn't sure that any of the panel would be incisive or articulate enough to expose his true colours, but he did indeed come out of it pretty badly - especially when all he could say when questioned about the Holocaust was "I don't have a conviction for Holocaust denial".

I listened to Question Time on Radio 5 driving back from Parkhead and thought that listening added to how stupid this man really is! But remember he is the public face of an evil beast, scratch the surface and then the real "nazis" will be found. I agree with most of the other comments but I'm worried that the BNP will claim they've been bullied, strange coming from a party of bullies, and will try to make inroads to the working class vote in the inner cities.

Radio 5 broadcast from Hull last nite, with Richard Bacon hosting, and they discussed the program. Representatives from each party including the BNP attended. During the showing of the program the BNP councillor, from Leeds, watched from another room. When asked if he hated Hitler, he said no and then tried to waffle out of it. Then an articulate lady phoned the show, explained how she'd done many good things etc., the BNP man agreed, then she said she was disabled. When pressed by Bacon, an awkward silence. Which goes to prove, give em enough rope and they'll hang themselves, which is why, reluctantly, we should give them air time. Their leader in Scotland, Gary Raikes, lives in the same town as myself, intelligent certainly not!