The BBC lynch mob proved BNP leader Nick Griffin’s best recruiters
By Minette Marrin
Minette Marrin is a journalist, broadcaster and fiction writer. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times, and has also written for The Sunday and Daily Telegraphs and The Spectator and The Asian Wall Street Journal. She regularly contributes to television and radio programmes
Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC television last week ought to have been a triumph for free speech and a disaster for him and his racist views. Unfortunately, one cannot quite say that. It is true that no matter how much Griffin tried to ignore the question or change the subject, in his attempts to present himself as moderate or even reformed, his mask kept slipping; we kept seeing the vicious, smirking face of racism beneath. No reasonable person can deny that, and that much was good.
However, in several important ways the programme was a disgrace and a disaster and I watched it with growing dismay. It cannot be an accident that a YouGov opinion poll carried out the next day found that 22% of voters would consider voting BNP in a local, European or general election. This is a result, I am convinced, not of giving Griffin the oxygen of publicity but, on the contrary, of trying very publicly to stifle him.
The immense value of freedom of speech is partly that it enables reasonable people to expose through open argument what is wrong with the views of unreasonable or wicked people. It also enables individuals who are perhaps being tyrannised by the majority to defend their views rationally, without being howled down or shut up. It was a triumph for free speech in this sense that the BBC allowed Griffin’s views to be tested by open debate on television. But what happened on Question Time on Thursday fell disgracefully short of this ideal.
Griffin was tormented like a crazed bull in a bullring. The studio audience was almost entirely hostile, hurling banderillas of rage and contempt at him, and most of the panellists felt obliged to wear their indignation ostentatiously on their sleeves. The scrupulous manner of David Dimbleby, the chairman, was an honourable exception to this unpleasant form of emotional grandstanding, and so was the calm good sense of Sayeeda Warsi, the Conservative peer, but otherwise Griffin was thrown to a sanctimonious mob. To see a man savaged by mass emotion is an ugly sight, however bad he may be.
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The BBC lynch mob proved BNP leader Nick Griffin’s best recruiters
And what is this woman’s “reasonable argument” for allowing Moslems into Britain to practice cultural genocide against the Anglo-Saxon race?
If this hack “writer” wants to see the” vicious, smirking face of racism,” she need look only as far as the nearest “Muslim neighborhood,” where unwelcome interlopers from Crapistan turn back Christian missionaries, practicing evangelism in their own country…no less!
What about those Muslims who protest in the streets of London, with their vicious banners, promising another 9-11 for the host nation, which has taken them in out of graciousness and goodness of heart?
White people are gettig tired of spurious charges of racism, which have no basis in reality. If the patriotism Nick Griffin stands for is worthy of condemnation by this “politically correct” person–Minette Marin– who cannot see the Muslim invasion on her own doorstep, perhaps she should convert to Islam and wear the veil, to show her solidarity with the oppression of women endemic to this degenerate culture of the Middle East.
Has this woman no sense of obligation or gratitude to her own country and culture? What a fool she is to publish such anti-British drivel!
Since when does standing up for one’s own nation and culture–in the face of cultural genocide– merit such contempt?
England belongs to the Anglo-Saxon race–not Muslims who wear out their welcome.
The British National Party stands for the English nation and its preservation–not turning one’s homeland over to those who practice “jihad.”
The true ugliness of racism becomes manifest in the attitude of these Muslim squatters who come to pulverize and steam roll the churchyard gravestones of the native British people, to erect their own temples of intolerance.
This Muslim intolerance extends to their own wives and daughters, whom they viciously murder to preserve their own warped sense of “honor.”