Nick Griffin on Question Time.

[Pavlos]

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Peter Hain says his fears have been proved right after a poll suggested support for the BNP has risen after Nick Griffin appeared on Question Time.

 

A YouGov poll in the Daily Telegraph suggests 22% of people questioned would "seriously consider" voting BNP.

 

The Welsh secretary said: "The BBC has handed the BNP the gift of the century on a plate and now we see the consequences. I'm very angry."

 

The show was watched by a record eight million people on Thursday.

 

The opinion poll carried out after Mr Griffin's appearance found 22% of voters would consider voting BNP in a future local, general or European election.

 

Two-thirds of the 1,314 people polled by YouGov for the Daily Telegraph dismissed voting for the party under any circumstances, with the rest unsure.

 

When asked how they would vote in an election tomorrow, the proportion supporting the BNP stood at 3%, up from 2% a month ago.

 

However, more than half of those polled said they agreed or thought the party had a point in speaking up for the interests of indigenous, white British people.

 

The poll did not ask whether their views were affected as a result of Mr Griffin's appearance on Question Time.

 

Will somebody please explain what an indigenous Briton is? I know my History's not exactly as sharp as the poker up Edward II's rear end but... I don't quite understand how a nation constituted of immigrants (Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, and Normans) can possibly have an indigenous race.

 

Go back home, Saxons, I say. Coming over here, giving us our language and cultural foundation. Tut.

 

Edit: More seriously, Question Time may have been a good wheeze for the obviously West London audience (i.e. constituted of middle class, university educated, home-owning liberals) but I imagine a good deal of working class people in post-industrial towns who have been hit hard by the recession saw a figure to empathise with: marginalised and under attack by middle class snobs who have been so concerned with the fight over "middle England" that they've managed to forget about the working classes and leave them with no choice or voice other than that of a fascistic, bigoted, crackpot Nazi party.

[adamqd]

Well, I'm 45th Generation Roman, and Italy's Climate sure beats the Midlands lol, Bye... I mean arrivederci!

[Totenkopf]

Edit: More seriously, Question Time may have been a good wheeze for the obviously West London audience (i.e. constituted of middle class, university educated, home-owning liberals) but I imagine a good deal of working class people in post-industrial towns who have been hit hard by the recession saw a figure to empathise with: marginalised and under attack by middle class snobs who have been so concerned with the fight over "middle England" that they've managed to forget about the working classes and leave them with no choice or voice other than that of a fascistic, bigoted, crackpot Nazi party.

 

That might have made for an interesting twist in audience reaction.

[jonathan7]

Edit: More seriously, Question Time may have been a good wheeze for the obviously West London audience (i.e. constituted of middle class, university educated, home-owning liberals) but I imagine a good deal of working class people in post-industrial towns who have been hit hard by the recession saw a figure to empathise with: marginalised and under attack by middle class snobs who have been so concerned with the fight over "middle England" that they've managed to forget about the working classes and leave them with no choice or voice other than that of a fascistic, bigoted, crackpot Nazi party.

 

Perhaps, though Griffin's claims were absurd (as they always are) about the show being biased, as he agreed to go on the show knowing full well it would be a London based audience, which would clearly be cosmopolitan in nature. Though individuals may have the above view Pavlos, I disagree that it is true, or that is a reason to vote for the BNP; that said the working class' traditional party of labour has utterly been taken over by Conservative toff's.

 

Right, I am however going to post something I think controversial; but true. I play football with local Sikh's team (I am the only "gora" (white person)) who plays with them. One of the guys I play with his a travelling salesman, and he said he had noticed something very interesting about being in the North. If the white populace thought he was Muslim he got a very negative reaction; however as soon as they realised he was Indian and Sikh, they were immediately fine with him.

 

Generally it is my experience and observation that, the Indians (who are Sikh and Hindu), and generally most ethnic minorities eventually integrate with Britain. They will tend to hang out more with "their" community, but they are also fine with the surrounding community; I am fully accepted into the Indian population here, I get invites to Sikh weddings, and invites to the openings of their new businesses.

 

There is however one massive glaring exception that Muslims (with the exception of the Turkish) do not integrate into society; they segregate themselves off. Why? What generally killed racism in this country was communities living together, it is much harder to racially abuse people you end up being friends with, and once "they" have a face, opposed to it just being "them" racism stops.

[Jae Onasi]

I don't think the program will do a whole lot other than make his message more public--those who want to agree with him, will. Those who find him incredibly offensive will continue to do so.