Ahead of tonight’s BBC1 Question Time – featuring the BNP leader Nick Griffin – The Guardian reports his verdicts on his fellow panellists. Here’s what he said about Chris Huhne, the Lib Dems’ shadow home secretary:
Big hitter. Menzies Campbell would have been more daunting.
And here’s what he said about the other panellists:
Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic: “The joker in the pack; knows how to look after herself and may be more of a handful than the others.”
Jack Straw, justice secretary: “A very effective advocate.”
Sayeeda Warsi, Tory community cohesion spokesman: “Token Asian, Muslim woman on the Conservative team. They were always likely to play a stunt like that.”
Here’s a round-up of what Lib Dem bloggers have been saying today about Nick Griffin’s appearance:
- Question Time BNP Bingo (Duncan Stott)
- The BBC are right to have Nick Griffin on Question Time (Mark Thompson)
- Question Time – what’s the worst that could happen tonight? (Jonny Wright)
- BBC Question Time Live Chat – 22nd October 2009 – #bbcqt (Mark Thompson)
- We must take on and challenge the BNP, but Question Time is not the best place (Meral Ece)
- How to combat the Nick Griffin and the BNP (Mark Pack)
- Sticks and stones won’t break the BNP…. (Darrell Goodliffe)
- The BBC helps us understand fascism (Tom Papworth)
- The more publicity Nick Griffin gets the better (Jonathan Calder)
- BNP lose the plot! (Peter Black AM)
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Here’s my tuppence worth: http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2009/10/22/rolling-news-and-the-bnp/
Just heard Huhne on Sky,banging on about STV and multi member conbtituencies being the panacea for BNP voter concerns.
Which planet is he on?
He underestimates Warsi at his peril.
I dislike her because she is so illiberal. I am keeping an eye on her one of the people who’s likely to enrage me in a Camoron government, alongside Gove & Grayling.
Warsi is without doubt the closest politician to griffin in mainstream politics. Tories have put her on sadly to target soft bnp voters.
We’re just a small tea shop in Brighton but we had a very recent encounter with the BNP. Read about our experience of Nick Griffin and our take on the Question Time debate here: http://bit.ly/3CJcaQ
Not sure I care what the devil’s testicle thinks of Chris Huhne, actually.
We’re a small tea shop in Brighton – so you might wonder why we’d be interested in the rise and rise of the odious BNP. Read about our recent experience of Nick Griffin and our take on his Question Time appearance: http://tiny.cc/21i1c
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