Good Morning

[AB Editor]

Good Morning All,

I hope you are well today.

Question Time Was exciting last night wasn't it? I wish Jack straw had given some shorter answers though - didn't he know how long the programme was? Saying that it may have been better if it was on for a couple more hours!


All the best,

Spare Ed

[another-view]

I thought Nick Griffin held his own pretty good. Certainly food for thought.

[AndThenSome]

Not all of us watched it.

[logic]

i thought he did very well, considering the audience were hand picked to cry him down,
He did have the decency not to talk over the top of others who like Jack Straw were trying to belittle him.
And some of his points were very good in my opinion.
As anotherview said, food for thought.

[andy-hughes]

I think Nick Griffin was naive in his approach.

If you come on QT frfom his perspective, you are in the ring with cultural and political heavyweights, people who debate for a living, and you need to be able to punch your weight. You should anticipate the general thrust of the programme (why are you a nasty homophobic race-hating bigoted moron?) and be ready with your arguments.

What NG found out was that what may well work wonderfully at BNP meetings, surrounded by like-minded individuals, does not fly for even a moment in front of an audience of balanced thoughtful intelligent people - i.r. non-BNP supporters.

Nick Griffin could have made political and press camptial out of this situation, he failed, badly.

He looked shifty, sweaty, smirking, unable to respond, out of his depth, and generally a little boy trying to play big boys' games.

Pretty much how he is then.

[AndThenSome]

He looked shifty, sweaty, smirking, unable to respond, out of his depth, and generally a little boy trying to play big boys' games.

Lol,ive just sen little adverts of last nights Qt, but what a great description! kudos to you any, kudos...

[another-view]

We must have been watching different programmes Andy.
They others were just constantly goading him. He was the only one with any dignity.
He spoke his mind instead of waffling the usual political side step and went up in my estimation.

[Ankou]

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.

[mccfluff]

does anyone else think jack straw is actually the demon headmaster?

i only caught the last half hour but it seemed to me that no-one would let NG speak they kept on talking over him, not that i need to hear his crap mind you....

[Ankou]

thats the thing though mcfluffy, i think we do.

all we got was them saying you say this, you think this, you are quoted as saying this that the other. it would have been better to let him speak, air his opinions and then let viewers make their minds up one way or t'other.