The Griffin has Landed.
As ‘G’ Day approaches, the BBC Chief’s of Staff are out strutting their stuff to assure us plebs that the battle will be won, there will be no loss of life amongst the politically correct brigades, and the enemy will look like a well plucked chicken before night is out.
Never have so few been the grateful recipient of so many column inches in the history of Freedom of Speech.
Tonight, Question Time will finally gain the audience they have always felt is their due, having spent the past few weeks stoking up mounting hysteria over their decision to invite Nick Griffin of the BNP onto their programme.
Peter Hain has been wheeled out of semi-comatose retirement to explain to us how it is that inviting decent men and women to share a platform with Griffin and his ‘repellent racist views’ – which are akin to Nazi-ism, which in turn is code-speak for eating Jewish babies before the sun is over the yardarm, is quite, quite different from sharing a platform with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness who were merely advocating blasting young British soldiers to all corners of the planet. One is apparently a reasonable exercise in power sharing under democracy whilst the other illustrates the imminent decline of democracy.
The Independent newspaper has produced a fine example of balanced investigative reporting with its 10 things you should know about the BNP which lists 10 historical examples of the alleged racism at the heart of the BNP and absolutely nothing about any other policy they may have. I presume that if you have an ‘Independent mind’ you only need to know the reasons to condemn the BNP.
‘Someone’, helpfully, released the full list of all 11,811 members of the BNP to the media this week, revealing that the membership is not, as propaganda would have us believe, comprised solely of brain dead knuckle dragging thugs, but includes a healthy smattering of lawyers, judges and police officers. Last time such a list was leaked, it was by a disgruntled ex-security officer of the BNP itself. In whose interest was leaking this list? Hmmn.
Ex-Army Generals, who were only last week raising ‘grave concerns’ over the politicisation of the military when General Dannatt accepted Cameron’s offer of a defence role, rushed to join the political fray and joined with that same General Dannatt in condemning the BNP for ‘hijacking the good name of the military’ thus proving that some politicisation is a good thing, but offering support to the Conservative Party is A Bad Thing.
Nick Griffin will be joined on the platform by other luminaries such as Jack Straw, he of the ‘too close to pro-Hamas faction‘ M15 report, Hamas having agreed never to eat Jewish babies before sundown, this is not a problem.
Lesser known bait to persuade the Griffin to fly in include Baroness Warsi, she of the homophobic suggestion that Labour was allowing schoolchildren to be propositioned for homosexual relationships – What? No Tweeting campaign on this point? Homophobia taking a back seat here?
Chris Huhne, who livened up his last BBC appearance by claiming that Speaker Martin had fallen asleep during one of Gordon Brown’s interminable recitations of tractor stats – a claim he later retracted.
And last but not least, Bonnie Greer the black American theatre critic who fully understands the need to provide drama to the small screen in order to drive up ratings.
The BBC, of course, could not possibly be accused of having invited the BNP to liven up this lack lustre collection of has-beens and never-has-beens. They have invited Griffen ‘in the interests of balance’ on the basis of their having got 6.2% of the vote in the last European elections.
Bonnie Greer didn’t even stand in those elections, never mind get a vote. Perhaps Bonnie was invited to represent the 66% of Europeans who didn’t bother to vote?
‘Question Time’ is habitually watched by 0.0166666667% of the population according to my calculator.
Mass hysteria meets Dead Duck.
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October 22, 2009 at 12:35 -
Nick Griffen may be an odious little man, with obnoxious views, but he’s fully entitled to express them, within legal parameters – that’s the true test of a democracy. I hope he makes a complete **** of himself, but it won’t matter in the long run – we’ve got enough bigots in Glasgow already, without the BNP sticking their nasty little nebs in.
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October 22, 2009 at 12:37 -
who’d want to share a platform with Peter Hain or Gordon Brown, for that matter? These pretend nazis, anti-democratic, authoritarian scum of the new labour denomination and their local government counterparts are as abhorent as the beenpee
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October 22, 2009 at 12:53 -
Sorry – that should, of course, be Griffin – he may be a ****, but he still deserves to be spelt correctly.
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October 22, 2009 at 13:14 -
The BNP is and always has been a red, white and blue herring: it will never gain anything beyond peripheral power, because even the braindead UK electorate can see the biceps inside the suits. I fear Peter Hain, Harriet Harman, Boris Johnson, John Bercow, most social workers, GCHQ and the security services far more than this ragtag Sturm Abteilung of Adolf admirers.
However, I must object in the strongest terms to only giving Nick four stars. Reducing him to the soubriquet **** is just not on: he’s a five-star lad if ever there was one. And as it’s OK to say ***** about the male undercarriage (but ghastly misbehaviour to openly refer to ladies’ pudenda) I think we should call an obese penis a fat prick and have done with it.
Yours in High Dudgeon, Bucks
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October 22, 2009 at 13:33 -
I do apologise, John – here in Weegieland, it’s common practice to refer to a ***** as a ****. We also call a **** a *****, but’s that’s another level of profanity altogether – a simple matter of mistranslation, I assure you.
Yours in Low Expectations, South Lanarkshire,
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October 22, 2009 at 13:45 -
Does anything some up Labour’s approach to life better than Alan Johnson on last weeks episode.
All the guests said bring on NG’s ideas and we will bash them in public view. Get to Johnson and he explains that putting the BNP on a panel with the rest of them will legitimise them in the eyes of the public.
So tell us Alan, what is so special about you that only you can tell the difference. Presumably after Nick Griffen’s appearance Alan Johnson won’t be persuaded to vote for them so why should us knuckle draggers suddenly be? What qualification allows that renowned genius Johnson to be able to tell who is good and who is bad that we all lack?
The arrogance is inbuilt and startling. He however would never understand this point. We are just the dumb fucking proles whose lives he has the blessed task of improving.
AGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH. Fucking socialists.
Sorry for the language.
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October 22, 2009 at 14:18 -
QT should be good for a laugh tonight, especially with Bonnie Greer doing her outraged Jesse Jackson routine. May even be a few moments worthy of YouTube preservation.
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October 22, 2009 at 14:33 -
“sum up”
Sorry, apoplexy breeds illiteracy.
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October 22, 2009 at 16:19 -
Dear Auntie Anna
I have been told by all the newspapers and newsreports that if I watch ‘Questiontime’ tonight , I will go mad,lose my sight , grow hair on the palms of my hands, and almost certainly vote Nazi at the next election.
I am so worried that the BBC are putting monsters on the TV who burn Jewish babies, set fire to houses with crosses of fire and feed black people to the ducks in my local park, that I can no longer sleep at night.I am hoping that Mr Brown will put a leaflet through the door, like they did when I was going to get AIDS and Pig Flu, or put an advert on the TV saying that they knew where the BNP lived and that they were under CCTV at all times. I have watched Eastenders and they do not have BNPers in that, and everybody lives happily together in Albert Square. I like Eastenders a lot because it islike real life isn’t it
Can you give me any advice, or better still tell me what to do, or who I should blame.
Worried
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October 22, 2009 at 16:32 -
Guthrum
I think you should spend the whole of this evening under the kitchen table, just in case :0)
TTommorroww the sun will rise again on another glorious new labour morning………….
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October 22, 2009 at 16:55 -
Griffin told the Times his biggest concern about this evening’s taping was “that I might get shot on the way in”.
At least the fat poof got that right
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October 22, 2009 at 17:18 -
‘Tommorroww the sun will rise again on another glorious new labour morning
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October 22, 2009 at 17:33
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October 22, 2009 at 18:01 -
Dear Auntie
I am a grandmother aged 32 and I was fortunate that my children, all twelve of them, had most of their education under that nice Mr Blair. Therefore they tell me not to worry so much, the Government will look after me, because that is what they were taught in school.
I have bought the 42in flat screen TV, with one of the six credit cards that my bank gave me, because I get
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October 22, 2009 at 18:08 -
Dear Auntie Anna
I must object in the strongest possible terms to your smear against Irish voting behaviour. Far from being foisted upon us by the EU, the tradition ‘vote early and often’ was in place when young boys were but a twinge under the priest’s cassock. Also in any given election after 1922, we had the highest proportion of dead voters in the world.
Good luck
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October 22, 2009 at 18:54 -
dear anna that dead duck gave me an awful scare, can i hold your hand till i feel safe again?
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October 22, 2009 at 19:25 -
I want to have Nick Griffin’s babies
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October 22, 2009 at 19:30 -
At the risk of being called a spoilsport, I feel I must bring this discussion to order.
To lay my cards on the table, I’m a paid up member of the Conservative Party. I have never voted for the BNP and the possibility of my voting for them is unlikely. Not impossible you might note!
Men and women fought wars to enable us, the citizens of this country, to have and enjoy ‘Free Speech’. It is why we can tolerate Sunday mornings at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park…do go, it’s wonderful.
Why is it though, I wonder, that the critics of the BNP never criticize Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Ayatollah Khomeini, and numerous other characters who in their various existences have been responsible for more deaths than Hitler ever was?
I just don’t understand why ‘left’ is good and ‘right’ is wrong’.
Surely, they can all be equally wrong…….or right.
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October 22, 2009 at 19:40 -
Dear Worried
May I suggest you toddle along to your nice Parish church on Sunday and join in with a few rousing hymns from Ancient and Modern. There’s nothing like a good sing-song to lift the spirits and you’ll soon feel much less anxious. -
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October 22, 2009 at 19:45 -
Well, if it’s any consolation, they were all ****s as well – however, as none of them are appearing on QT tonight, we’ll have to stick with Griffin for the moment.
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October 22, 2009 at 19:52 -
Cato
you cannot persuade me that Bliar and Brown are left, they are not and, indeed, are one of the reasons the BNP is in some sort of ‘relative’ ascendancy. For Hain to offer threats of legal action is insane. It is also hypocritical, because new labour are nearer the BNP than any other party have been since the war. Anti-democratic. Authoritarian. One law for them, another for the rest.Surveillance. I.D.Cards. Need I say more?
I’ve never been a paid up member of any party. I’m not going to start now. Party Politics, with professional politicians is another reason we are in the mess we are in. Shall I continue?
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October 22, 2009 at 20:26 -
Seeing the effect Mr Griffin has had on audience figures, he is currently in talks with Simon Cowell to replace the absent Louis Walsh on X Factor. When asked if he minded being put up as a hate figure he replied, “Simon seems to have done okay out of it”.
This is seen as blatant competion to “Strictly Come Dancing’s” resident racist.
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October 22, 2009 at 21:03 -
the BBC are tonight airing Question Time on Radio5Live, for the first time. Is this a manifestation of the beebs desire to increase the ratings out of something ridiculous like this? The talk of the BNP is taking on mad proportions whilst the current fascist government is getting away with murder, literally in the case of Afghanistan
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October 22, 2009 at 21:10 -
Radio Five Live should bugger off. They already have their own figure of ridicule in Alan Green.
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October 22, 2009 at 21:13 -
you cannot persuade me that Bliar and Brown are left, they are not and, indeed, are one of the reasons the BNP is in some sort of
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October 22, 2009 at 21:26 -
Well, I’ll be watching. I’ve been acclimatising by watching American Wrestling. I do hope The Establishment put on an entertaining pantomime for us all. Boos & hisses aplenty!!!
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October 22, 2009 at 22:06
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October 22, 2009 at 22:11 -
At the end of Anna’s comment threads, I am always left feeling right, or wronged and left out. I think this is because I am the only person I know who wants radical reform without shooting everyone wearing glasses.
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October 22, 2009 at 22:11 -
Anna,
“…with their ready made banners….” Just like the wrestling!!!!
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October 22, 2009 at 22:15 -
I would like to launch Resist. This is to combat the sudden distubing progress of Reform .
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October 22, 2009 at 22:24 -
Reversed for the Motorist.
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October 22, 2009 at 22:27
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October 22, 2009 at 22:28 -
Couldn’t be bothered.
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October 22, 2009 at 22:39 -
I’ll take a Refill, a Reefer and just Relax.
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October 22, 2009 at 22:40 -
I tried to start the Anarchy Party, but people wouldn’t obey the rules. Maybe the Antipathy Party is better than Apathy. Or the Annapathy Party. The Sociopathy Party for Michael Howard?
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October 22, 2009 at 22:43
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October 22, 2009 at 22:42 -
How about the Party, Party.
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October 22, 2009 at 22:43 -
How about the Antipasti party for starters?
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October 22, 2009 at 22:47 -
Poor Gloria must be wondering why her ears are twitching.
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October 22, 2009 at 22:52
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October 22, 2009 at 22:48 -
The Antithesis party for students.
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