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Well the media frenzy has died down, the dust has settled but what has come of it all?
The British National Party was in a no lose situation from the start. The breadth of our policy base ensures that if a standard Question Time program had been undertaken for the first time in years the audience would have seen politicians with genuinely differing policies debating. Not wishing that to be the case the BBC undertook to broadcast a lamb to the slaughter exercise.
Nick Griffin is not very often referred to as a lamb but on this occasion the description is apt. Quite a well mannered and gentle lamb who had to withstand a verbal battering never before seen on television in this country. Credit where it is due though he did a good job. The few questions that Nick was allowed to answer he answered without hesitation and with cool delivery. frustration at not being allowed an opportunity to answer the vast majority of the bombardment of questions and numerous scandalous allegations must have taken a personal toll on the Chairman. He did not show it however. Keeping his cool and refusing to take the bait to snap that was so liberally strewn around him.
BNP Leader “Will be Invited Back onto Question Time” is the headline on the party website. It is a good read and tells the story of audience rigging and prompting that reduces the BBC’s flagship debating program to the level of gutter entertainment which only compares to the ‘journalism’ published in the ‘Sport’ newspaper. Integrity is not a commodity easily earned and the Question Time program will not regain its previous level until our Mr Griffin has once again sat at the table of the top panel on British television and this time, been afforded the dignity and respect that a top politician is duly entitled.
The question of, “Who came off best"?” only has one answer. The publicity that has been achieved by the British National Party has projected us into the public realm in a way that we have never previously enjoyed. The media barriers are undoubtedly being broken down. When this continues to a lower level and the Councillors of the party can get their comments printed in local press outlets with a similar frequency to that enjoyed by the opposition parties then a great day will have dawned.
