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Originally Posted by punky
They should have just have run Question Time as normal. Instead it was focused solely on the BNP. All but one question was BNP related. Sure during the expenses scandal it was justified, but just because the BNP was on? Sure may be one question about should the BNP be on there but tearing apart their manifesto? Then there was Dimbleby. He didn't seem all that impartial allowing Straw to give off his scripted rant at the BNP. There there was the audience. I don't buy that it was overly multi-cultural but it was predominantly young and disn't seem to reflect the balance of politics or the guests on Question Time. And that's without going into the more paranoid/conspiracy theories like Nick Griffin being twice on the audience sheet and the fact all the quotes from other guests are solely from a mutlicultural perspective. |
Running as Question Time as normal was unlikely given the panel. After all one of the major news stories of the week was that he was on the panel.
I think it's just as justified to have a QT focused on the BNP as the expenses scandal. It was basically an show themed on the rise of the far right in British politics. It was Nick Griffin's first exposure to this kind of platform, so to avoid confronting him on these issues would have been amiss. You think if Jack Straw had said half the things Griffin has said he wouldn't be treated the same?
As you say about the audience sheet, it's paranoid. The Daily Mail photoshopped it.
Heres the real one.
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It accomplishes nothing. The BNP aren't held to the scrutiny that the other parties are. Furthermore the boosts you talk about is because being martyred like that often do it just reenforces what people believe - that they are unfairly persecuted. Even people like Alan Davies on This Week afterwards said the same thing.
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They do not have the size or justification to be held to the same scrutiny. We focus on them in a way that is far disapproante to their eletorical success because of the vile and worrying nature of their party. UKIP and the Greens have move success nationally than the BNP. The election this year, the best for the BNP, still places them behind the greens and well behind UKIP.
It's difficult because we don't want them to go unchallenged but really they don't deserve special treatment.