Friday 23 October 2009

Another day, another opinion...

Embarrassment. This one word encapsulates my feelings towards the fiasco that was Question Time last night. I had been looking forward to see the snake that is Nick Griffin humiliated in front of the electorate. Unfortunately, this is not what I saw. What I saw was the representatives of our two biggest parties interrupting him every time he spoke and spouting pre-written statements which they hoped would make them seem morally superior in the media the next day.

To me it seemed more like a nationally broadcasted kicking contest. Griffin is, without doubt, a disgusting man, evidence of this can be seen by searching the fount of video-based knowledge that is YouTube. The way to show this, however, is not to make him seem like a victim of political bullying. The best, and most mature, approach is to annihilate his policy rather than shouting louder than he does.

The ever deceptive Griffin seems to have realised that this is his strongest best defence. With Mr. Straw and Baroness Warsi constantly cutting him short, he had no need to defend simply indefensible policies, but sit smugly as the others embarrassed themselves with their ignorance, throwing in the occasional sound bite in between.

Among the bumbling of Jack Straw and the river of patronising comments from Warsi there was a small ray of hope from the panel. This shone in the strange form of Chris Huhne; who made quite a few impassioned attempts to scratch away the veneer of the BNP. His comments even made political sense on the odd occasion.

So with one of the three MPs actually making a decent input I am left asking, “Is this the best our politicians can do?”

On top of the luck lustre performance of the other panel members I was left disappointed by the performance and comments of David Dimbleby. I believe he has forgotten his role on the show; he is the chairman, whose role is giving every panel member an opportunity to speak whilst remaining impartial throughout. This was not shown last night, with him making every attempt to undermine Griffin when the opportunity arose rather than remain the usually venerable host that he is.

I hope those of you reading this do not think this is a defence of Griffin or his policy, it is simply my disillusion with British politics being put on paper (so to speak). Again, we were shown MPs inability to answer questions surrounding the important issue of immigration. There is no doubt that a number of British people are becoming disheartened by the influx of foreigners to the UK and are left seeking solace in the far-right policy of the BNP. I would argue that if the mainstream parties grew a pair and made Realistic policy on how to control this then people would veer away from the BNP and their policy.

If the government do not realise this, however, there is another option to defeating the BNP. Force them to talk about the policy and challenge it, compelling them to break through their veneer of deception and showing them for the fascists they truly are.

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