BNP

BNP
The media was in uproar all week about the appearance by the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin MEP, on the BBC 'Question Time' programme this week. Many people thought he shouldn't have been allowed on because of his party's far-right views. The show itself was largely a name-calling exercise in which the other panel members (mostly MPs) and the audience attacked Griffin.
Despite the attacks on him, they weren't really very effective. Griffin was repeatedly cut off, when it would have been fairly easy to let him talk himself into a hole. And by continually cutting him off, the panel gave the impression of a biased event which could only give sympathizers further reason to feel aggrieved about the 'liberal elite' they feel runs the media.
worse still, none of the issues leading people to vote BNP were really addressed, mainly because the large parties are fully committed to the free-trade, deregulated, small-state agenda. At one point the Labour, Conservative, and Lib-Dem panellists were competing with each other about controlling immigration instead of defending it.
the show is very popular and respected here, but it seems to me to be just another version of talkback radio.
In the end, the BNP will probably do better out of it, but I doubt if their performance improves much more. unless the Conservative Party wins government and carries out its plan to massivle cut back public spending, which can only make social conditions worse in areas of BNP support like Stoke and Burnley.