BNP Question Time
After watching the much hyped Question Time on BBC1 last night featuring the BNP leader Nick Griffin I can honestly say I learned next to nothing about the BNP as a political party or about any of it's policies.
What I watched was a carefully orchestrated attempt by the BBC and the main political parties to destroy, smear and demonise Nick Griffin in a sustained personal attack.
The audience was almost totally hostile and as the programme ended you had to remind yourself you had just watched Question Time and not an Old Baily trial for a child murderer.
The problem with this approach is that Nick Griffin is just the leader of the BNP at this moment in time, in the near future he could be replaced by a far more charismatic individual without any past baggage who does well on TV, the BNP polled nearly a million votes in the European elections (6.4 per cent of the total) and not every one of these people is a racist nazi.
Over the last ten years the Labour party have taken for granted they would always get the white working class vote and have ignored the fact that many of their core voters have increasingly felt let down and marginalised by this Government and have started to look elsewhere for answers to their problems, with a long recession, unemployment at 3 million, the MP expenses scandal and the Banking fiasco this should not be a shock to any experienced Labour politician, however, it actually took a black guy in the audience and an Asian Tory Baroness to acknowledge there are many people in the UK who are worried about uncontrolled immigration, another big concern for many people especially those living in poorer multi-cultural areas around the country with high unemployment and a failing education system.
Jack Straw gave an absolute hopeless display during this part of the debate and like many other Labour politicians seems to be in absolute denial just why so many people gave their vote to the BNP last time.

