Said I wouldn't watch it, but like 8 million other people I did. Confirmed my opinion that the BBC was wrong. Yes, Griffin came across to all right-minded people as an idiot but the BBC has given the BNP publicity it could never buy, even, unbelievably, sympathy.
The justification for putting Griffin on was the BBC's commitment to balance and impartiality. But there was precious little balance and impartiality on the programme. Griffin was hounded by every panellist, just about every member of the audience, even David Dimbleby himself.
He had to be. Denying the holocaust. Cherry picking stuff from The Koran to whip up Islamophobia. Bragging about his links with the KKK. How can you not challenge nonsense like this?
But, that wasn't Question Time last night, it was Question Griffin. It was awful television. A guy whose party got 6% of the vote in elections in which only 34% of the people voted occupied 100% of Question Time and the front pages of newspapers for weeks. Christmas did come early for the BNP.
BBC. Never again. Heard that phrase before?
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