I watched Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time with interest.
While I thought he was set up a bit, he didn’t do himself any favours with his unfounded, unsupported, pig ignorant responses to questions.
That said, I wonder if someone had sent someone out to gee up the audience beforehand as there was understandably some serious rage directed at him.
One thought I had was is that It’s almost as if someone had designed Nick Griffin as leader of a hugely unpopular right wing party.
His greasy hair, red face and that weird eye, combined with his repulsive views made him very easy to hate – and hate the audience did.
But one thing I thought was glossed over was the fact people turned out to protest against him appearing.
Sorry, the guy’s a loon and thoroughly dislikable, but he’s the leader of a political party, and one that holds European seats no less, he’s got to have his say.
Set him up, gang up on him, whatever, but you can’t not let him speak.
the 500 odd (and they are very odd) people who turned up to protest are essentially protesting against free speech and thus, democracy.
These are the very same people, of course, who would be out on the streets if censorship was ever introduced in this country, which it won’t be.
It’s nonsense, there are places to protest, but this was not the right place.
And shame on the politicians saying the same thing, that he shouldn’t have been allowed on the progamme, are they that scared of the BNP?
The BNP will NOT get into power, they will continue to have a scattering of members getting ignored on local councils and that is that.
Let Griffin have his say, realise he’s talking utter garbage, and make an informed decision.
Censorship is a popular policy of extreme dictators and has no place in a democracy.
Griffin is perfectly capable of making himself look ridiculous, we don’t need to drive him underground, the more publicity he gets, the more people will realise what he stands for and how wrong that is.
and the politicians, as they no doubt start working out how they can pay back their fiddled expenses, should look closely at themselves as to why anyone takes any notice of Griffin and his apes at all.
Spineless incapacity fraudsters need reality check
In Comment on October 5, 2009 at 6:24 pmI would like to get a bit Daily Mail if I may.
It’s a rare occurence as I personally regard that paper as a racist, homophobic pit of xenophobic nonsense, but there’s very occasionally something worth becoming just a little bit right wing over .
And even rarer, a Tory policy, and one which would be a good thing if they do it right.
I’m not sure that it’ll make me vote for them as I still think those of us in the five-bedroom detached, three car home will get reap the benefits of a Conservative Government, rather than people who actually need it.
At their conference this week ‘Dave’ announced they would look at cutting the of the incapacity benefits of up to half-a-million people to try to get them back to work.
Good.
Some people are genuinely disabled and genuinely unable to work.
Some people aren’t.
A quick scour through local news websites reveal numerous stories of people claiming to be wheelchair bound being spotted dancing the Fandango or climbing Ben Nevis (perhaps not totally accurate but you get my drift) and other tales of shameless scammery.
Scavenging the benefit system is totally wrong, it’s the worst form of something for nothing-ism around.
The “why should I work when I can get more on benefits” brigade is both irritating and saddening, and whoever is in power needs to take a good look at the benefits system as whole.
It needs to be tougher, but not too tough, as there are genuine cases of people who are unable to work out there.
Labour have jumped on the plans, calling them ‘penalising the sick’, but that’s typical political posturing, as if done properly it won’t penalise anyone except people who aren’t sick.
The key question is, are these people sick or not? I doubt a lot of them are.
It’s an easy scam, get a doctor’s note saying you’ve got a bad back and then claim incapacity while the overrun Government departments are too busy or short-staffed to properly check.
That said, Labour was already planning to re-check all the people on incapacity, which is good, but there are strong doubts whether they will still be in power to do it.
It’s clear the system is open to abuse and it’s a step in the right direction, but I still can’t stand George Osbourne.