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I am somewhat amused by the furore over the appearance of British National Party Chairman Nick Griffin on the Question Time television program.
I would like to assure readers with feint hearts that the world is not about to end and that the sun will indeed rise ob Friday. There may be a little cloud or even rain but we of the British National Party have no policy or control over the weather.
No matter what people may tell you!
The whole question of whether or not Nick, as both Chairman of the party and a democratically elected (and don’t they hate that?) Member of the European Parliament, should be allowed onto the Question Time program is moot. This is recognised by the Press Association whose poll shows that the people who really matter, the voters, think so as well.
Writing for the Daily Mail Melanie Phillips has written a well thought out piece, from her point of view, throughout which she inserts her own views into the piece. As a columnist she has every right to do this. It is kind of the point but in my own view she has laid it on a bit thick in this piece.
I do however have an issue with her conclusion which she interestingly sub-titles ‘Bigotry’: -
The liberal intelligentsia has put the BNP's rise down to the bigotry and imbecility of ordinary people.
Having turned patriotism from a civic virtue into a racial crime, however, it is that elite which has driven thousands of decent, patriotic British people, both white and dark-skinned, to supporting the BNP.
This is because it appears to be the only party (except for UKIP, which is seen to be a single issue, anti-European organisation) that allows them to uphold such a belief.
What a terrible indictment - that the only party which allows people to express their patriotism is one that exploits and manipulates such feelings for other, unsavoury, ends.
The mainstream parties seem principally concerned to demonstrate their own virtue by competing to be the loudest to denounce the BNP as vile and despicable.
This, however, conceals a devastating reality - that the people who are truly responsible for the rise of the BNP by abandoning and demonising the ordinary decent people of Britain are none other than themselves.
My issue is the sub-title itself. The tone of the piece is such to affirm for the casual reader that the British National Party is ‘bigoted’ whereas in truth we are not. The bigotism is demonstrated by the establishment by their refusal to recognise their own indigenous population.
The Times has a dig at the party by claiming in their headline that, “BNP launches online assault on ethnic-minority Question Time panellists.” The opening paragraph of the piece sets the scene: -
The British National Party has launched an online assault on the two ethnic-minority members of the BBC Question Time panel who will take on Nick Griffin, the party’s leader, this week.
only for the truth to out itself at the very beginning of the second paragraph where they admit that it is a poster in the comments section who has said something that they take issue with. Even commenters on the British National Party website can make headlines in The Times these days. What is this newspaper coming to?
It is left to Nick Griffin himself to say something sensible which he is reported as doing in The Mail: -
Large numbers of Sikh, Hindu and other ethnic minority voters support the British National Party's hard-line anti-immigration stance, its leader Nick Griffin claimed today.
But he said the BNP's purpose remained to stand up for 'indigenous Brits' which did not include ethnic minorities, even those born here who had fought for their country in the armed forces.
He also declared that 'Islam and our society don't mix' and said he wanted to swap 'the very large number' of al Qaeda-supporting British Muslims for former Gurkhas and their families.
Nick goes on to talk more sense about Islam and Inter Race marriages.
Over on the BBC website Peter Hain warns that the BNP debate is ‘Illegal’. Oh dear me. Anyone out there who can upset this man has a redeeming feature in my book. To some he is remembered as being forefront in the opposition to apartheid. Fair enough. He should be remembered as being the idiot who threw glass onto the playing surface of the international rugby pitch when a game against South Africa was due to be played. This is much more the mark of the man.
Ballerina Simone Clarke cannot escape publicity even in her private life. As the former principal dancer with the English National Ballet this is not entirely unexpected. Couple this with her sterling work for the Solidarity trades union and well…
Her crime you may well ask? Apparently Simone has gone on to teach dancing. Neither illegal nor torrid but the Daily Mail cannot see the problems in the world and therefore needs to fill the space. Far too much of which is taken up by a picture of left wing ‘campaigners’ outside the Coliseum.
For my own part I am looking forward to the program on Thursday as I am sure is Nick.
On Friday morning however I still expect the sun to rise.
