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It really is a wonder how we ever got ourselves to where we are today. I suppose that even back through history the same struggles and tangles existed but there just wasn’t the instant communication.
I am of course thinking around the BNP appearance on Question Time and the rights and the wrongs of the situation. We teach bullying is not acceptable yet we applaud a Televised attach on Nick Griffin? We allow freedom of speech and want to be an open and inclusive society, yet when we get a vile extremist perspective it should be censored?
The media was full of coverage for the programme before during and after. The TV programme was broadcast at the same time on 5Live for the first time in its history. Surely fanning the flames and breathing oxygen into the story is the problem? Wouldn’t it be better to just treat it as a normal programme and starve the BNP of publicity?
Somewhere, somehow we have to get back to a serious debate on the issues at principle and not allow ourselves to be blown off course by side shows.
There is something fundamentally wrong if there are seriously nearly a million people who would vote for Griffin’s views in the European elections. Let us seek out the problem and tackle that.
There seems to be a desire to find sticking plaster solutions to major surgery problems. We have to find the tumour growing inside the UK and deal with it. That is how we will truly find an inclusive multi cultural Britain that is fit for the 21st Century. And Mr Griffin and his henchmen will disappear into obscurity where they belong.
23 Oct 2009 08:33:41
Sharon said...
I totally agree. Though it was hard to equate Nick Griffins performance with the policies that he and his party promote. Talk about 'out of his comfort zone'. The confidence soon reappeared later when he said he was put in front of a lynch mob and wanted Question Time broadcast from hs support base. I was hoping for a well-informed Q and A rather than a personal attack on Mr Griffin. I also noted that on one or two points came back with, had anyone else said them they would have gotten a loud round of applause. As for Jack Straw bleating on about a moral compass, well really!!
Kind Regards
Sharon
24 Oct 2009 09:21:06