The BBC’s Question Time Makes BNP Leader Nick Griffin A Celebrity
HAVING invited BNP leader Nick Griffin to the big Question Time debate, the BBC has achieved its intended goal of getting the media to talk about its show.
Maybe if Question Time can develop its policy of featuring leaders of actual political parties, however odious they are, there will be no need to hire celebrities to sell politics to a slack-jawed audience.
Today’s update comes from former Army generals have written a letter warning that political extremists had no right to share the Armed Forces’ proud reputation.
War is no place for extremists!
The open letter is signed by former heads of the Army, General Sir Mike Jackson and General Sir Richard Dannatt. As Sky News notes:
The move follows the British National Party’s (BNP) tactic of using images of Winston Churchill and wartime insignia during recent European election campaigns.
Remember that picture of the Spitfire? As Anorak noted at the time:
“Battle for Britain,” bellows the legend. That’s a Spitfire soaring thought the skies, strafing the fascist scum. Hurrah! It’s a Romeo Foxtrot Delta Plane, as flown by Polish pilots in the great fight. Poles of the famous 303 Squadron of the RAF – the group made up of Polish airmen. The Kościuszko squadron that claimed 126 enemy kills (fascists) more than any other unit during the Battle of Britain.
Who says the BNP is not inclusive, it having embraced a Jewish hippy, a far-right American nutter, climate sceptics, anti-fascist fascists, a desk off a corridor in Brussels, break dancers, coppers, Poles, the kids and fools.
The top brass’s letter to the Times goes thus:
“The BNP is claiming that it has a better relationship with the Armed Forces than other political parties. How dare they use the image of the Army, in particular, to promote their policies. These people are beyond the pale.“
Beyond the pale? An unfortunate choice of words, or may an attempt at a pun.
But if the BNP can be easily undone, it is with humour and ridicule. Treat them with the contempt you usually reserve for Labour and the Tories.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Anglia for the Angles! Let’s keep these Saxons and Normans out of our country! Oh, wait…
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 am
Allow Nick Griffin and BNP the chance to speak - we live a democracy, don’t we?
He cannot be any worse than the LABLIBCON bunch who have sold our once great country down the river
Britain for the British - not exactly radical, more common blooming sense.
Wake up!
October 20th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
The more i read comments by the BNP supporters the more i notice words like f… or bast…. they all seem to be made by poeple (or probably a better description is needed than people) who seem to lack common sense or decorum or lack any intelligence, that others take for granted. They offer nor easoning behiond their racist viewpoints, but show their aggressive nature.
The nazis had one main policy - always pick on and abuse the least able to defend themselves. First of all it was the mentally ill, then they went on to the physically ill, then on to the Jews, the Homosexuals, then Gypsies, the point to remeber is this - with each spin of the wheel, which each of the weakest elements of society being eradicated the closer we all become to being the next on the list.
When we fial to protect the weakest, when it comes to out turn who can we expect to protect us?
If your nto scared - then you should be - we will all be attacked eventually! Be scared - be ready to protect yourself - because no one else will!