Is Question Time's blandness ideal for Nick Griffin's racist hate?

Devon computer programmer Liz Jamieson is a regular watcher of Question Time, for all its failings, that’s why she thinks it will be perfect for Nick Griffin to spread racist hate and lies. Here’s why.

I am often disappointed by the questions selected by Question Time – they are always predictable and this backs the programme into a sort of landscape of ordinariness. QT lacks depth. It doesn’t aid understanding of anything and I despair that important topics on which the general public are ill-informed are not illuminated. The programme basically doesn’t work.

The fact that QT doesn’t work is OK if the Tories, Labour, the SNP and even the lovely Nigel from UKIP are on. None of them embody pure evil. The Tories evil-o-meter is reading around normal nowadays and the SNP has managed to broker an inclusive nationalism that isn’t evil at all, thanks to it’s inclusivity.

The broken QT format is perfect for Nick of the BNP. He can give quick answers about fixing this and that, removing terrorists, giving jobs to unemployed white people, restoring the UK population to how it was prior to 1948 and so on, and a lot of this (given the format of the programme) will necessarily remain unchallenged.

I know a lot about the BNP and I’ve managed it without ever having seen them on Question Time. If people really want to make their own minds up about the BNP, they’ve had ample and growing opportunity for years. There’s lots of info about the BNP – their ideas and policies are available for public consumption. The fact that so many people need to see old Nick on QT in order to “form their own decision”, suggests to me they may need extra support in lots of other areas of their lives too.

If you haven’t made your own mind up yet – let me make it really easy for you. The core BNP membership is racist and want as close to a 100% white Britain as is possible. The core BNP membership will vote to create two levels of citizenship that will deny people like Lennie Henry, Ashley Cole, and all other people who are not 100% “from” this island full citizenship. This means a white person will have different rights to those of a non-white person, no matter what.

You’ll get a much better idea of what the BNP is about by studying their web site, partaking in their forums, and doing searches using Google, than the free speech ratings junk you’ll be served on QT. I only hope the audience are up to it tonight – they may be our only hope.

• This is an edited extract from Nick Griffin, The BNP and Question Time on the Big Satchurday blog

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