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October 24, 2009

Two Minute Hate backfires

British National Party leader Nick Griffin appears on Question Time and is (of all things) martyred for his trouble. The circularity of leftist firing squads, etc.

Set aside director general Mark Thompson's preposterously disingenuous claim that Mr Griffin was invited to take part because of the Corporation's 'central principle of political impartiality'.

After all, the BBC, which is utterly in thrall to the left-wing agenda of the majority of its staff, has contributed hugely to the rise of the BNP through its systematic censorship over the years of any coverage or debate on the biggest wave of mass immigration in British history.

Update: One fifth of electorate consider voting BNP.

One fifth of the UK electorate would consider voting for the BNP in the wake of Nick Griffin’s Question Time appearance, according to a poll.

The YouGov poll, taken hours after the BBC show aired, indicates that 22% of people in this country would ‘seriously consider’ voting for the far-right party in an upcoming election.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 24, 2009 07:24 AM

Comments

I'm interested in the descriptions of the BNP as "far-right" and "ultra-right." How would you compare it to an American party on the scale of right-left-ness?

Posted by: harrison at October 24, 2009 09:39 PM

Daniel Hannan describes the BNP as a left wing party as it favours "nationalisation, higher taxes, protectionism and (though it keeps quiet about this) republicanism".

Posted by: Ghost of a flea at October 25, 2009 06:24 AM

Thanks, it's so hard to keep up.

Posted by: harrison at October 25, 2009 09:30 AM