London: A fascist British politician who openly wants Indian and other immigrants to be deported to their countries of origin, was pilloried by the audience during prime time BBC programme on Thursday night amidst protests on the streets.
The BBC's decision to invite Nick Griffin, British National Party (BNP) leader, raised a welter of protest with hundreds of protesters grappling with the police during a violent demonstration outside the television centre in London, where the Question Time programme was recorded.
Griffin shared the panel with members of mainstream political parties such as Justice secretary Jack Straw (Labour), Baroness Warsi (Conservative) and Chris Hune (Liberal Democrats). The audience included Asians, African-Caribbeans and white British.
Amidst criticism that the programme had lent respectability to the fascist party, the BBC insisted that it was right to invite Griffin on the programme because the party had won over a million votes in the June election to the European Parliament and that the party had not been banned.
On the widely watched programme, ethnic minority members of the audience termed Griffin a 'disgrace', while others ridiculed his stance on race and immigration.
Straw highlighted the fact that British campaigns during the two world wars included large contingent of soldiers from the Indian sub-continent.
Griffin, whose party until recently admitted only whites as members, claimed that he had changed his views and had no problems with Indian and other communities who had settled here, but was against allowing any more immigrants in the country.
One Asian member of the audience asked him bluntly, "Where do you want me to go? I love this country, I'm part of this country. I was born here, educated here." He went on to advise Griffin to go to the South Pole if he wanted an all-white country.
Griffin coming on to the programme dominated prime time television channels and newspapers. While many dismayed at the BBC inviting him on the programme, others agreed with the BBC stance and saw the programme as an opportunity for the British public to know more of Griffin and his party.
John Walker, a resident of Belfast, said, "If Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time has the ultimate effect of shaking the 'great' British public free of their political apathy and encourages them to ask probing questions, then his appearance will be a good thing".
1 comments:
Sadly nonsense in your blog
The BNP on question time were not given a fair hearing and it showed big time
He raised two issues uncontrolled immigration and abuse of women by extreme Muslims neither of which were taken up
He was subjected to a chairman who was supposed to be impartial and wasnt
It was a setup and was one long abuse of one panel member
It would have been better and a better look at the BNP if the show had been run as a normal question time show and covered a wide range of topics
The white underclass in the UK do have some genuine greviances, and the main political parties failing to understand or address these sadly leads to folk like the BNP gaining ground
And make no mistake after that show the BNP are polling much higher than they were before, so hardly the result you would think
There are many issues the BNP talk about which are ignored by the main parties, the UK is only a small country and cannot continue as it is, eventually something will happy, and a rising BNP is just one aspect of that
In the UK:
We DO have some sections of the community systematically moving whole regions of other countries here using marriage visas
We DO have hundreds of thousands of Indian nationals here on inter company transfer visas under cutting the European workforce and forcing Brits out of work
The public sector has moved many of its jobs to India by subcontracting the jobs to Serco and then onto Patni, and other similar Indian outsourcers
The nationalised banks have got rid of European staff and replaced them with Indian nationals working for the Indian outsourcers such as Cognizant, Wipro, Tech Mahindra
BT has stopped hiring British Graduates and instead hires Indian graduates in India into Tech Mahindra and brings them into this country on inter company transfer visas, and there are countless similar other examples of this in British Industry
The country has handed much of its leading intellectual property to the third world in the name of cost cutting and systematically thrown away the only ways a high cost high tax first world country can compete
We do have lots of folk here on student visas long after their course ended
There are lots and lots of illegal immigrants here and its not even policed, as watching any TV documentary on the police will show
Some of the treatment of women and other minorities by some of the more extreme Muslims IS worthy of comment and should be sorted out in this country
The schools, GP practises and so on in the worst estates populated by the white underclass are absolutely terrible, there is no excuse for this
There are remarkably few folk with working class/underclass accents in positions of power and this is getting much worse in recent years, which when coupled with positive discrimination for women and ethnic minorities doesnt look good
There is much that needs doing to understand why the BNP get votes, dismissing them fails to appreciate how the world looks if you’re born into a poor family on a bad estate or inner city in the UK
We do not have a multicultural nirvana there is indeed injustice for many
And therefore simplistic reactions to the BNP are way off the mark, and believing what the BBC are printing on the show are a mistake
Most Brits are peace loving, appreciate a mixed culture and wide range of races and religions living largely in harmony, however the political classes are running down the poor white folk, and this bubble will burst one way or another
Come on the UK hands out inter company transfer visas like confetti, and allows folk to bring is large families, all of whom get free healthcare and education, compare and contrast to a Brit working abroad having to pay for the healthcare and educaiton of his family
There isnt a level playing field, and there is not a fair and equal chance for some folk in the UK
and way too much political correctness tries to hide these issues
Hopefully we will move to a more sensible debate on these issues
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