My Question Time ranking

[Gromit]

1st - Baroness Warsi
2nd Bonnie Greer
3rd - Bland man from Lib Dems
Last = Jack Straw
Last = Nick Griffin

What did you think?

[berniecuddles]

wether you like the BNP or not at least nick griffin has the guts to stand up and tell it like it is there are too many foreigners let into this once great island we cant keep on letting them in, but the labour goverment dont seem to care about the british public feelings about his. jack straw what a totally useless person and mp how did his constituency get him voted in i really dont no!!!!
labour and the tories should ask thereselves why did the bnp win there seats,i tell you why because people have had enough of nothing being done about immigration instead of slagging of the BNP get your heads out of your arses you MP'S and do something positive about immigration problems instead!!

[Sqad]

ahms.....I feel duly chastised.



Question....what do you think would have happened to Nick Griffin had he entered through the "protesters from the kindergarten?"

[SpookyMan]

open gate ? climbing over the fences in this video

http://www.telegraph....levision-Centre.html#

[anotheoldgit]

Answering Jack Straw when he called Nick Griffin racist for referring to the "indigenous" population of this country. Mr Griffin said "Would you tell an indigenous Australian (Aborigines) or an Native American that they were racist?"

A black woman in the audience said (when the words Afro-Caribbean were said) "That sends shivers down my spine, I am African Caribbean"

Don't suppose for one moment she was also being racist?

Or is "Afro" yet another word we are now not allowed to use.

[deggers316]

nick griffiths like him or not was browbeaten by that panel and its chairman in the extreme,
like a pack of lions round an wildebeest,

[Quinlad]

AOG,

Just to be clear. The protestors were't protesting at the BNP's right to free speech. They were protesting at the editorial decision of the BBC to invite this party on.

Here's a question (not that you tend to answer): does having a right to free speech equate to having the right to airtime on primetime television?

If so, when can I go on the panel?

[Sqad]

Quinlad

"The protestors were't protesting at the BNP's right to free speech. They were protesting at the editorial decision of the BBC to invite this party on."

You really believe that, don't you.

[anotheoldgit]

I am not a holocaust denier in any way, Thankfully, I was not there and I do not know anything about it, except for what I have read or seen on the news reels.

It seems rather funny though that one is allowed to form conspiracies against major happenings in history, except the holocaust.

One doubtful thing though, in a well known clip which shows a young boy in the doorway of a Nazi rail wagon reaching out his arm to assist someone into the wagon, the next shot then shows the same boy but this time taken from inside the wagon looking out.

Now what I have often asked myself, was this piece of film stage managed? because I can't see a potential death camp victim having a movie camera inside the wagon, and I can't see that a Nazi guard would be in the wagon along with the Jews filming the episode, why should he?.

[DEN53]

Morning Folks - I watch Question Time every week but last night I thought what a weak panel of speakers.
Jack Straw, what was the labour party thinking in putting him on there ! I think he was the first to answer the opening question, and straight away he launched at Nick Griffin, trying to win brownie points - I felt we were watching a party political broadcast. When he said 'we do not want to shut barriers on immigration' YES WE BLOODY DO you bumbling idiot.

Everytime Nick Griffin tried to answer a question, Bonnie Greer kept interrupting him. I don't think Nick Griffin done himself any favours, he looked nervous and shakey, the audience booed him at every opportunity, I think his laughing was a nervous laugh and he looked totally out of his depth.

Immigration is out of control - go to Barking in Essex where my Mum & Dad live, it is actually quite frightening.

I thought the debate last night was weak.

[Ankou]

i posted this in chatterbank (the other 'news' section).

can’t stand the guy or his personal/party opinions but from what i saw he seemed to do ok in the circumstances. particularly, and probably the only reason being, that jack straw couldn’t answer a direct question – his response to the one about immigration was laughable if only protracted drivel going on about enoch powell then reverting to nick griffin, and the other panellists looked like they were assuming the moral high ground with selective soundbites and delivering them like they were at a poetry recital. goading is right but that’s not to say he don’t deserve it. very few people know ‘exactly’ what he and the bnp are really about in todays terms, so it would have been good to let him speak more, if only to dig a deeper hole for himself and the bnp.

anyhow, that said, i haven’t seen him in a different light or changed my view of him, just felt the other pannelists were complete twonks. equally the dozey sods who – presumably are jobless – decided to trash the beeb’s premises.

[Kromovaracun]

AOG:

I didn't think the presenter was especially anti-Griffin. He interrogated Jack Straw for an answer when he floundered on immigration just as much as he did Nick Griffin. Griffin - like Straw - notably failed to answer several of the questions put to him (though he did answer some, to be fair). It's kind of hard to see how they could have placed many supporters on the panel seeing as there don't seem to be that many around, and just about every political group in the country condemns the BNP....

On several occasions, Griffin also recieved bursts of applause from the audience. Which suggests it wasn't stacked against him.

I also thought Griffin's 'my dad was in the RAF and your dad wasn't' was absolutely pathetic. I fail to see how the actions of Griffin's father versus Straw's in any way validated or invalidated the others' stance. I thought that to a lesser degree Straw was also guilty of the WW2 bandwagon stuff that really annoys me at the start of the programme.

[anotheoldgit]

Quinlad

Although I couldn't give any better answer to you that the ones supplied by Sqad and Zeuhl.

But since you always like me to personally answer your questions, I will put aside the time to answer you, but don't expect me to everytime.

You ask:
"Does having a right to free speech equate to having the right to airtime on primetime television"?

If you are personality and you have a valuable contribution to make on a topical subject, then yes you may be invited to air your views. But don't get excited, judging by the contributions you make on AB, I really don't think you stand a chance of being selected.

Your only other chance would be for you to either be accused of some misdemeanor or other, or to witness the same. Then and only then, may you be called upon to speak out on the news perhaps.

[jno]

splendid answer, aog - but not to the question Quinlad asked. You should be on Question Time!