Monday 7th September 2009

The British National Party have made the headlines again after it was revealed the BBC may invite their leader Nick Griffin to appear as a panellist on Question Time.
This has caused a bit of an uproar and many feel the BNP shouldn't be allowed to have their views represented on one of the BBC's most watched political shows. Griffin is bound to get a hostile reception from the audience, maybe similar to what we saw when he was pelted with eggs at Westminster after being elected to the European Parliament (see June 9th post on here).
But perhaps the best way to approach this character is to give him an opportunity to debate so he can be showed up as a lightweight politician whose party only get so much media attention because of their far right beliefs. What we need are a few senior MPs and one or two other political experts to appear on Question Time with Griffin to engage in debate with him and show that his ideas won't work in a modern Britain without causing a small civil war. Add a few intelligent members of the audience to ask questions and a decent chair in David Dimbleby and we have all the ingredients for demonstrating to everyone that Nick Griffin is not a politician, but an idiot whose ideas will simply not work.
I have nothing against the anti fascist protesters who threw eggs at Griffin back in June, but I think that if he does appear on Question Time they should let him speak and hopefully get then he will be shown up as the lightweight that he is who only gets more attention than other small parties because of his controversial opinions.