NICK Griffin was left shaking like a leaf at the end of BBC’s Question Time tonight. After what some might have expected to be a big PR, publicity stunt for the BNP was almost completely the opposite. Auntie should be looking for her receipt, as Mr Griffin was probably not too happy with his Christmas present.
Griffin failed to dispel the notion that his party is racist. He even stated that he believed successive governments had committed genocide towards the ‘indigenous people of Britain’ through immigration policies. His constant flip flopping performance - trying to deny racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and Islamic comments he had previously made – was plain embarrassing to watch.
So has his appearance on Question Time helped to raise the profile of the BNP? I don’t think it has, but we’ll have to wait and see. It might have helped to raise the issue of immigration in Britain as being a topic needing more debate. The appearance of Mr Griffin on QT reminds us once again of the price we pay for democracy. There can be a very fine line between free speech and censorship.
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