Haine's BNP blunder
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The Welsh Secretary, Peter Haine, has dropped even further in my estimations today. In coming out and denigrating the BBC for granting the BNP a platform owing to what he sees as their illegality, he is playing straight into their hands. There is only one possible conclusion to this debate, and it is an increased publicity for the party, with vast swathes of the public viewing this as nothing more than another reason to opt out of voting for mainstream parties.
The BBC is quite right to point out that, were an election held tomorrow, the BNP would be eligible to field candidates. As we stand, they are a democratic party with significant representation in certain quarters of the United Kingdom. Their abhorrence is exceeded only by their right to be so; it is a dangerous path when we begin to suppress views antithetical to our own for no other reason than that they are distasteful.
I await the Question Time debate with intrigue, and praise the laudible attitudes of Straw and Sayeeda Warsi in stepping up to the plate and agreeing to debate with the BNP. Time has shown that starving the party of media oxygen serves only to aid the BNP in propagating a message door-to-door, safe in the knowledge that their flawed vision of the world remains unshattered by intellectual discourse and engagement.
It is crucial that the BNP's message is heard, debated, exposed as flawed and put to bed. This process cannot gather pace without first inviting them to participate in such shows as Question Time.
The BBC is quite right to point out that, were an election held tomorrow, the BNP would be eligible to field candidates. As we stand, they are a democratic party with significant representation in certain quarters of the United Kingdom. Their abhorrence is exceeded only by their right to be so; it is a dangerous path when we begin to suppress views antithetical to our own for no other reason than that they are distasteful.
I await the Question Time debate with intrigue, and praise the laudible attitudes of Straw and Sayeeda Warsi in stepping up to the plate and agreeing to debate with the BNP. Time has shown that starving the party of media oxygen serves only to aid the BNP in propagating a message door-to-door, safe in the knowledge that their flawed vision of the world remains unshattered by intellectual discourse and engagement.
It is crucial that the BNP's message is heard, debated, exposed as flawed and put to bed. This process cannot gather pace without first inviting them to participate in such shows as Question Time.
2 comments:
Of course Haine wants to supress BNP...He can't face competition from what, is probably now, a more attractive SOCIALIST option to the working/ middle classes. Forcing BNP to accept membership from all ethnic groups (although it will never happen) is another problem. It removes a valid point of argument against them even, if it is a purely cosmetic point.
Dimbleby who lost control several times and often forgot that as chairman he was supposed to be impartial.
The other panel members were useless.
The two points Griffin raised were ignored the failure of immigration policy over the years, and the shameful silence on the sexism of Islam.
Try being white underclass on the worst estates and getting the worst schools and the worst GPs
Try having your job literally taken by one of the hundreds of thousands of Indian nationals here on inter company transfer visas working for one of the big outsourcing vendors
There are genine concerns that the people have
There is no equality and fairness for the white underclass
So all in all fixing the issues which the BNP being elected raise has not even begun
The main parties need to look a lot harder and be more representative
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