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In Pictures: Queen Riots At State Opening Of Parliament
THE State opening of Paliament is wonderful time, when the Queen does what she is told, the Prime Minister is made to stand still like a naughty schoolboy and then every one heads off for a cracking lunch.
Old Mr Anorak, our patron, was, as ever he is on such occassions, close enough to Her Majesty to recall fond memories of Liz’s youth. All that remains of that affair is a trace of forbidden love in Prince Andrew’s golf grip, which can be inherited.
The pictures:
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
The Top Ten Pictures Of Barack Obama In China
BARACK Obama has been in China on a crash course in communism. What tips the great redistributor he will bring back to the US can only be imagined.
For now all we have are pictures. One day all US citizens will have the same pictures.
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Barack Obama Death: Jesus Wants Him Killed
THE Barack Obama Death Cult – Anorak’s look at the media’s obsession with Obama’s assassination – today Barack Obama is going to be murdered by Jesus.
On Baloon Juice, Doug J spot a right-wing blog praying for Obama’s death (via).
Psalm 109:8 – May his days be few; may another take his office.
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Posted: 15th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
David Cameron Exploits Dead Soldiers Day For Gordon Brown’s Daily Mirror
THAT sick, disrespectful (check spelling) Tory toff tosspot David Cameron has outraged Daily Mirror readers by “exploiting Armistice Day for ‘photo shoot’”.
He took his personal snapper into the Garden of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey yesterday to pose for carefully-choreographed photographs.
In the paper, there’s old soldier Frankyln Hood to say that Cameron used “sacred ground like cheap film set”.
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Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Obama Is Made From Bits Of The Berlin Wall
THE history of the Berlin Wall – and you can see all the pictures of the rise and fall of the wall here – has one more chapter: The Obama. Here is The One putting the fall fo The Berlin Wall into perspective:
“Few would have foreseen … that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it.”
Spotter: IHTM; Image: The Caucus
Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
2000-2010 In Pictures: The Decade In Politics
IT’S the end of an era. We look back at 200o-2010 – the decade in politics. In pictures:
She's Shrinking
Posted: 12th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
The Sun Joins Gordon Brown In Disrespecting Jacqui Janes By Calling Her Jacqui Jones
GORDON Brown “outraged Jacqui Janes by mis-spelling her and her dead son’s names in a note of condolence”. The Sun cares enough to call her – are you ready? – Jacqui Jones. So says the Sun.
In it, heartbroken Jacqui – whose boy Jamie, 20, was killed by a bomb in Afghanistan – tells the Prime Minister: “Mr Brown, listen to me… I know every injury that my child sustained that day. I know that my son could have survived. But my son bled to death.”
Jacqui Janes picks up the phone to Gordon Brown. The Sun, which is no longer supporting Gordon Browns and Labour, coaks an ear:
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Posted: 11th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
LibDem Councillor And Iain Dale Double Adrian Hicks Introduces Majestic, Britain’s Elite Alien Spotters
MORE news on Hampshire LibDem councillor Adrian Hicks – who spotted an alien dancing in Winchester – has posted the 27-minute speech on the Internet calling for Majestic, shadowy scientists, military officers and politicians to be exposed.
Majesty aims to with making contact with extra terrestrials following a UFO crash in 1947. Sadly, he presents no proof. But Mr Hicks does have use of a video camera –had he only have had one on that fateful night.
Incidentally, Hicks looks and sounds remarkably like Tory wannabe Iain Dale. Which might or might not be relevant. Are they related?
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Asda Puts Labour Government On Sale
OH dear: Chancellor Alistair Darling during a Glasgow North East by-election campaign visit to an ASDA store in Glasgow. No returns:
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Gordon Brown Says Jedward Are Part Of ‘Axis Of Evil’
HAVING achieved the impossible and made Simon Cowell’s Botox-face form an expression, John And Edward Grimes, aka Jedward, have attracted the attention of Gordon Brown.
Gordon loves the X Factor, with all its voting and populism. But what doe she think of it so far? The Star tells us:
“I HATE JEDWARD TOO.”
Hate is a strong word. For instance if you said, “I don’t think Gordon Brown is very good”, would that mean you hated him?
Speaking on Manchester radio station Key 103 Brown sided with judge Simon Cowell – who recently slammed the twins – saying: “I don’t think they’re very good”.
He later added:
“There are some really good people on X Factor. It’s really good. And I know it’s competing with Strictly Come Dancing.”
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Posted: 6th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Sarah Palin’s White House Victory Speech, In Full
SARAH Palin was once a heartbeat away from being the President of the USA. OK, she was heartbeat and a few states away from being President. Now we know what she would have said had she won: “You betcha!”
Now Sarah Palin is a celebrity and in the book Sarah from Alaska, authors Scott Conroy of CBS News and Shushannah Walshe, formerly of Fox News, dish the dirt:
That Victory speech:
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Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
The Westminster Village Lobby Hacks Are The Idiots Idiots
RICHARD North looks at how the cosy politcal lobby in the Westminster village keeps the idiots in power:
THE point about political correspondents from national newspapers is that they are part of the bubble inhabited by politicians. They have no more idea what is going on in the real world than do the politicians they serve.
Thus do we have Benedict Brogan in The Daily Telegraph op-ed telling us that, yesterday, Mr Cameron “took a difficult but necessary step to restore our trust not in politics but politicians, by promising no more than he can deliver.”
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Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Boris Mayor Chooses Oiks Over Scum In Nick Of Time
SUSPICIONS are that London mayor Boris Johnson would have rescued a woman under attack from an armed group of young girls has he been able to think of what to shout at them sooner.
Boris’s initial reaction was to yell “FU**ING ADA”, followed by “C****S!” But to do so would be unbecoming to his stranding as a likeable toff.
As Boris thinks, Franny Armstrong is surrounded in Camden, north London. A girl pushes her. Another girl has an iron bar. Others have hoods.
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Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
Zombies For The Campaign For Change Wake Up Westminster
ZOMBIES for Campaign for Change – they want the first-past-the-pots voting system abolished mass in Westminster.
Willie Sullivan, a spokesman for the campaign, says:
“Instead of men and women with independent minds and souls, we see mindless ghouls shambling through the voting lobbies. We see elections in hundreds of safe seats throughout the land, where even a corpse could win a job for life”.
We say, it’s amazing how many zombies look like lobby hacks. The pictures:
Posted: 31st, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Revealed: What Nick Griffin Wrote On Question Time
WHEN Nick Griffin appeared on BBC TV’s Question Time he spent a considerable effort in putting pen to paper. So often did Nick write that many viewers supposed that he had been brought along to take the minutes.
Mr Griffin may have been unaware that his words can be recorded on video and audio, believing that unless something is written down it cannot be real. Thankfully, Mr Griffin was not forced to tattoo the evidence on his arm and was afforded a piece of paper.
Those jotting have now come into our possession. These are they:
– Monkeon
Posted: 29th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Obama Connects With His Inner George Bush On Golf Cart One
BARACK Obama is not black or white, he’s just a typical US President, eating fast food snacks, checking out girl’s arses, loving his two daughters and hitting golf balls as the world burns.
Anorak told you that you’d miss George Bush when he was gone. But he’s not gone – his spirit lives in Obama. On Golf Cart One, Obama rides out his greens credentials:
BARACK Obama has just completed the 24th round of golf he has played since he became President of the United States. In just nine months in office, he has undertaken as many rounds of thrashing and cursing as his predecessor managed in two years and nine months. And George W Bush fancied himself on the fairway.
Bush, of course was an idiot to the media at large. Even when Bush gave up golf, the press saw it as a sign of his idiocy:
In an interview with the Politico website, the president said he took the decision because of the war. “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
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Posted: 28th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Gordon Brown Battles Depression Says No.10 Website
GORDON Brown “battles depression,” says No. 10 website.
Speaking on the 80th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash, Gordon Brown said the battle to stop the current downturn becoming a second great depression is being won.
But he hopes to feel much better soon…
Click to enlarge:
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Posted: 27th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
BNP Runs ‘British Heritage’ Office In Burnley
WHAT odds that the Lancashire Telegraph’s scoop – “Revealed: The BNP’s ‘secret’ Burnley base” – is written by Tom Moseley?
An “e” can go a long way in Burnley, and while Oswald Mosley curses the one that got away, Tom tells us:
The British National Party has been quietly running an office in Burnley town centre for up to nine years, the Lancashire Telegraph can reveal.
It’s the word “quietly” that adds a noble element to this story. While the Tories were banging their drum, the Labour party was blowing a kazoo, the LibDems were debating who gets to hold the tambourine and the Miss Great Britain Party was throating the slide trombone, the BNP were quietly getting on with the business of hate. How’s that for true British values. You Austrians might like your marching and uniforms, but the BNP never grumble, rain or shine.
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Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Nick Griffin On Question Time: Germans Declare War On British Fascists And BNP Jokes
NICK Griffin BNP Watch: With Her Majesty The Queen, war with Germany, former KKK leader David Duke calls Griffin a ‘liar’, mother-in-law calls him a racist and the X Factor…
NoTW: “Queen fury at BNP – Queen fury at BNP Outrage at Nick Griffin Churchill hijacking”
If “non-indigenous” Britons had to go “home”, as the BNP wants, The Queen would have to return to Germany.
THE QUEEN has declared WAR on the BNP.
It’s Germany versus the BNP. Game on! Listen out for Prince Philip turning to Liz and saying:
“If we stay here much longer we’ll turn into one-eyed bigots.”
He’s Not Just A Bigot, He’s A Silly Boy
Mirror: “GRIFFIN’S STILL A RACIST WHO LIVES IN THE DARK AGES. HE’S HARDLY DONE A DAY’S WORK IN HIS LIFE”
Bnp leader Nick Griffin has been branded a work-shy racist… by his mother-in-law. Muriel Cook, mum of Griffin’s wife Jackie, says he hardly ever worked when his children were young – and is merely hiding his vile views to win votes.
Muriel, a widow, says: “Nick is still a racist. He still holds those views – always has. He wants to see an all-white Britain, but that will never happen… he’s living in the Dark Ages.”
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Posted: 25th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (9)
BNP Nick Griffin’s Question Time: Christmas Cancelled, Winston Churchill Tweets And White Trash
JUST when you thought you’d heard the last of twitchy BNP leader Nick Griffin, up pop the media to tell you that you should be thinking about him.
Before we go on, we have question for Mr Griffin:
If, as you say (we have video evidence), Winston Churchill would have joined the BNP, in what capacity would he have served – as leader or as your subordinate? And if he would have been the BNP’s leader, in what ways would he have made a better leader than you? The Indy sums it up best:
It is not hectoring or mystique, but familiarity that breeds contempt.
Oh for a Sir Jimmy Goldsmith clapping along as the crowed chant “Raus! Raus! Raus!”
Now to all the news and views:
Sky News: “’One In Five Voters Now Considering BNP’”
Shocking news for Sheila and Lucy Cohen to know that one of them or their three grown-up children is a Nazi. But the BNP is all-inclusive (you said that too, Nick.)
More than a fifth of voters would consider voting for the British National Party according to the first opinion poll taken since the controversial appearance of Nick Griffin on Question Time.
Would consider… And then dismiss it?
More than half of those questioned said that they agreed with the BNP, or thought that the party had a point, in wishing to speak up for the interests of the indigenous, white British people which successive governments have done too little to protect.
Into the void created by the mainstream parties’ lack of desire to talk about immigration, race and a media that demonises the white working class steps the BNP.
And as our own Ed Barrett notes:
Today, the white working class has neither political power nor cultural cachet. One consequence of this is that the rest of society sees no reason to hide its distaste when discussing it. In these politically correct times poor whites are just about the only section of society that it is permissible to insult. The council estate, once a symbol of progress (albeit of a bureaucratic penny-pinching variety), is now regarded as the British equivalent of the American trailer park, and its inhabitants, once the harbingers of a coming classless age, are derided as ‘white trash’.
Sky news’s facts leads to the Sun’s front-page headline:
“DOWNFALL – NAZI BACKSLASH FOR GRIFFIN – Nation turns on BNP chief after TV fiasco”
Only seven per cent in the YouGov poll of 1,314 people said they would “definitely” or “possibly” back them.
Down with the BNP!
As the Guardian puts it:
“Ministers warn of poll boost for BNP after Question Time”
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Posted: 24th, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
Barack Obama Blesses Fox News And Turns 50
AS Barack Obama seeks to block Fox News, and fails, Anorak is minded of this comment by the great sage on political matters, the shouty singer Lulu:
“There’s so much to be gained from being around people who are smarter than you. If there aren’t any to hand, read about them or observe them in the media. Barack Obama, for example, is so clever, so inclusive. Whenever a problem comes up these days, I find myself saying, ‘How would Barack address this?’”
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Posted: 23rd, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Cassette Boy Does Nick Griffin, The Most Powerful Muslim Woman in Britain
NICK Griffin is on Question Time. Nick Griffin is the Most Powerful Muslim Women In Britain.
“I am against black people kissing in public.”
“I believe that the Holocaust was an emormous party”
“The British National Party is extraordinarily racist”
Video proof:
* Nick Griffin has trouble remembering what he says and maybe this video can jog memeries…
Posted: 23rd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Hugs And Shakes Before Nick Griffin’s Question Time Wobble
BRITISH politics is in such a dire state that even our Great British leader of our Great British far-right extremists is twitchy, nervy and about as skilful an orator as Worzel Gummidge, a Great British scarecrow in a Great British field, in a Great British tizz.
The media, however, has not said enough about Nick Griffin, and we continue our round up of all the views and news on the BBC telly Question Time show with this delightful insight from black female culture vulture Bonnie Greer, she of the BBC’s speed dial nodding head service.
In “When Bonnie Greer met Nick Griffin”, the London Evening Standard’s David Cohen pits Greer and Griffin head to head.
Griffin looks not enough unlike the monster from The Goonies, while Greer looks on him as if eyeing a interestingly shaped turd.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (6)
BNP Leader Nick Griffin’s Question Time Review, With Jan Moir, David Letterman And All The Views
DID BNP leader Nick Griffin do it on Question Time? Did Nick Griffin do what everyone who sat up to watch political chatter over tractor racing, repeats of Coronation Street and strippers get what they hoped for? Did he tick the boxes? Let’s take a look:
Sky News: “Disgusting’ Griffin Defends Ku Klux Klan”
Far-right BNP leader Nick Griffin has defended the Ku Klux Klan, attacked Muslims and called gay couples “creepy” in a controversial appearance on BBC’s Question Time.
Were it not for the KKK, Griffin could pass for a tabloid hack voicing off. “JAN MOIR FOR LEADER!”, “BUY THE DAILY EXPRESS!” come the cries from the BNP voting households. Can Griffin recover?
At one point moderator David Dimbleby snapped at the BNP leader for smiling as he struggled to answer a question about his past denial of the Holocaust. He was booed as he attacked Jack Straw’s father for being in jail for not fighting in the war while his own father was serving in the RAF.
Smirking… Snide comments about MPs…We stayed awake for this?
Sky’s chief political correspondent Jon Craig said: “Griffin was exposed on Question Time as a nasty piece of work, with unpleasant views on race, immigration, Islam, homosexuality and Winston Churchill.”
BNP leader is unpleasant… We needed to watch him to know this?
Those front pages:
“Griffin uses BBC to attack Islam and defend the Klux Klux Klan” – Daily Telegraph
“As protestors bay outside, Griffin says “I’m not a Nazi’” – Guardian
“Hostile reception for Griffin” – The Times
“BIGOT AT BAY – Jeered, scorned and ridiculed…but still BNP leader milks his moment in the spotlight. Now the BBC faces angry questions of its own” ” – Daily Mail
“Griffin baptism of fire at the BBC” – Indy
“BNP leader Nick Griffin is… A DISGRACE TO HUMANITY” – Daily Express
“RAT RUN – BNP chief scuttles away after humiliation on TV” – Daily Mirror
“BNP CHIEF IS A NUTTER… even wife puts boot in” – Daily Star
The Show Without Punch
The Guardian: “BNP on Question Time: Lone voice freezes Griffin’s grin”
Nick Griffin was not sitting on the far right of the panel. But if that would have been a cliche too far for Question Time’s producers, Mentorn, there was symbolism enough as the four men and two women took their seats for last night’s recording.
Faced with the BNP, all three mainstream parties, in what had doubtless been the subject of some negotiation by the programme’s producers, were seated squarely to the left of the long, curved desk, with David Dimbleby in the centre acting as a reassuring buffer against any anticipated xenophobic spittle.
Bonnie Greer alone, unelected and hence beyond contamination, sat next to Griffin, though with her elbow nearest to him planted firmly on the desk throughout, one shoulder directed in sniffy contempt.
And her eyebrows ready to fire at will.
The Times: “Audience is outraged as Griffin says Churchill would have joined BNP”
The British National Party’s exposure to a nationwide audience provoked outrage last night as its leader reiterated his claim that Winston Churchill would have joined his party.
And Churchill would have served diligently under leader Nick Griffin. Right, nick? Far right!
BBC: “Griffin attacks Islam on BBC show”
His references to Britain’s “indigenous people” prompted other members of the panel to challenge him to say he meant white people. Mr Griffin said the colour was “irrelevant” and said Mr Straw would not dare go to New Zealand and tell a Maori he was not “indigenous”. “We are the aborigines here,” he claimed
At least he’s doing jokes now.
THIS Is Staffs: “Mixed blessings in TV’s big time”
“The vast majority of this audience finds what you stand for disgusting,” one man told him. “You’d be surprised how many people would have a whip round to buy you a ticket to the South Pole,” said another. “It’s a colourless landscape and it’d suit you fine.”
The Times:
The redoubtable American playwright Bonnie Greer, who refused to look his way, started him off by referencing the new law that would require the BNP to admit non-whites to its membership. “You laugh,” said Ms Greer. “If I was you, I would be scared.” The vision of the policy U-turns a mass influx of Muslims would cause, was such a good joke Mr Griffin even applauded.
She wasn’t joking. If every non-white, Jews, Muslims, Hindu and more join the BNP, the BNP would die.
The Sun: “I’m the most loathed man in Britain”
SMUG bigot Nick Griffin appeared on BBC1’s Question Time last night – after sparking mayhem at Television Centre. At one point the fascist BNP leader, 50, confessed he was “the most loathed man in Britain” among Nazi sympathisers.
The Opinions
Daily Mail, Max Hastings: “Repugnant, slippery and exposed as an empty vessel”
Anyone think Hasting is giogn to talk about the war?
Greer said that Churchill’s mother was possibly of Mohawk Indian descent, which made nonsense of the BNP’s ideas on British racial identity. As a history lesson, almost all the panel talked tosh. Winston Churchill, in his own time, possessed the values and racial attitudes of the Victorian aristocracy from which he came, wildly politically incorrect in modern terms.
The Guardian, Aditya Chakrabortty: “Nick Griffin on Question Time: No big gaffes, so he will say it’s a success”
Griffin’s success last night can be defined as follows: neither cabinet ministers nor protesters stopped him from getting on air and there were no punch-ups nor any telltale flashes of temper. For the BNP, those are sufficient grounds to chalk up last night as a victory.
The Sun: “Sun panel gives its verdict on BNP leader”
Matthew Todd, editor of gay mag Attitude, says… Saira Khan, of TV’s Apprentice, says….
You need to know what the gay man and the Asian woman think of Nick Griffin?
FT, Matthew Engel: “’Billy Bunter’ is wounded in bear-bait
This was not Question Time , it was a bear-bait, with Nick Griffin as the animal supposedly undergoing torment. This was the only way the BBC could square its decision to invite him with the bien-pensant view that he should never have been allowed. It would have been far better if he were just allowed to rabbit on until even the most alienated builder in Burnley realises that Mr Griffin is unimaginably stupid. Last night’s performance may have created some kind of sympathy for him….
The Times, Andrew Billen: “Question Time, BBC 1”
Maybe Mr Griffin couldn’t find a gag writer, or maybe he thought by looking serious and speaking slowly he would be taken seriously. But this tactic was soon in trouble and, suddenly, after 10 minutes he went as giggly as a sixth former…
There was so much ganging up, I was half-reminded of barmy David Icke’s sorry appearance years ago on Wogan in which he elaborated his sci-fi conspiracy theories. It is not easy — it even requires courage — to say the unsayable even when the unsayable is plain wrong. Unfortunately, Mr Griffin — evasive, hair-splitting, his every other answer further proof of bad faith — turned out to be unspeakable. Sympathy for the devil? I think not.
Anyone else on the show?
The representative of what’s left of New Labour was Jack Straw, striking absurd Churchillian poses, who was his usual evasive old-line political self. He was outshone by the Tory communities’ spokesman Sayeeda Warsi. But Mr Griffin was the most incoherent and unconvincing.
CRIKEY, Alex Mitchell: “BBC’s Question Time gets Nicked with a reborn Alf Garnett”
Instead, Question Time presented the British public with a reborn Alf Garnett with none of the comic satire of Warren Mitchell…His presentation is so lightweight it’s difficult to see him emerging as the leader of a major neo-Nazi force, which is what the political hysterics are predicting.
The Times, Libby Purves: “‘All of the panel wanted to attack a man who wanted to be attacked’
It was an odd show because almost all of the questions — even the five minutes on gays — were BNP-related, and the entire audience and panel anti-Griffin. Dimbleby, briefed to keep quoting his YouTube nonsenses back at him, risked making him seem a victim. Griffin’s tactic was to grin pudgily and to keep his answers crisper than Jack Straw’s (not difficult). It is never easy for a chairman to come down hard on someone who keeps it brief.
The Times, Matthews Parris:
Nobody crashed. Nobody descended into incoherence. All of them — landed with the task of attacking a man who wanted to be attacked — found their own distinct way of doing battle. But nobody dared try what, if it could have been done, would have been the most devastating tactic of all, and perhaps the only tactic that would have done Mr Griffin any real harm: to brush him aside as a small man, enlarged by the anger of his enemies.
The Times, David Aaronovitch
Griffinism is a state of permanent denial, followed by self-incrimination and wild eccentricity…
Tested on his penchant for Holocaust denial he became a Holocaust-denial-denyer, replying “I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial” and telling the nation how he couldn’t explain how and in what way he had changed his mind on the Holocaust as he might be prosecuted in France.
On Islam he slipped in a reference to supporting Israel on Gaza, which was unlikely to win the Jewish vote and likely to baffle the BNP vote.
Finally he confided that he thought the BBC to be “part of a thoroughly unpleasant ultra-leftist establishment”, when voters know it best for Strictly Come Dancing. He showed himself to be, not so much a fearful Nazi, as kook.
Late Show With David Letterman Amy Poehler; Nick Griffin; Judy Collins performs. 11:35 p.m. KCBS
His Last Word
The Herald: “BNP leader laps up the publicity but wilts in Question Time heat”
Reviewing his own performance he said: “People will see the extraordinary hostility shown to me from the people representing the three old parties. It’s still a matter of the main political parties being against the outsider and that is what it is about.”
The Last Word
Radio Netherlands: Giving the far right rope to hang itself
It’s a risk. As soon as you promote extreme attitudes you create more attention for those views. Professor Groebel says the media also plays its part, being more interested in risky, thrilling stories than moderate ones. On the other hand, he says, to suppress them completely is dangerous because you then have a movement that you cannot control publicly. In the end, people have to be trusted to weigh up their politicians, says Mr Groebel. “A strong democracy does not necessarily have to fear more extreme views if they are placed in context and surrounded by good moderation.”
The Mail: “Talk about bare-faced hypocrisy.”
Normal service has been resumed, the Mail is attacking the BBC:
Amidst the furore over the BBC’s decision to invite Nick Griffin on to Question Time, its director general, Mark Thompson, claims that he had no choice because of the Corporation’s ‘central principle of political impartiality’. What a pity that the BBC for years has comprehensively trampled this so-called ‘central principle’ into the dirt. This is an organisation that’s utterly in thrall to the left-wing agenda of the majority of its staff.
Nick Griffin – an unlikely man who would never get anywhere in a major political party gets a lot of attention…
Posted: 23rd, October 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (28)
BNP’s Nick Griffin On Question Time: In Pictures
BNP leader Nick Griffin is on Question Time. Outside the BBC, it’s all kicking off. The BBC is now the news, the host and the brodcaster. Hurrah!
Posted: 22nd, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
