An overestimation

Well, Griffin certainly got slapped down last night, didn’t he? And I definitely overestimated his ability, and underestimated the panel.

However, one thing I will say is that the BNP have a point when they complain that the QT format seemed to have changed, in order to attack Griffin for the entire show. It lacked the usual diversity of topics and was dominated by race and immigration discussion, an obvious way to trip Griffin and his ridiculous views up, when that should have only played one part. What about grilling the BNP on other issues, like healthcare, education – everything else? The BNP simply doesn’t have an answer to any of these topics, and I would have liked to have seen Griffin squirm whilst trying to answer those questions, as well as ones on race and immigration.

Not only that, but as Dianne Abbott has put it:

It’s all very well in the morning to say ‘oh well he got smashed’ but in the long run people who are attracted to the BNP will come away saying he was a victim,” she said. “When you put the BNP into the mainstream like that they drag people on to their agenda. Everyone is talking about Nick Griffin. The programme has given him unnecessary exposure, unnecessary credibility, and giving more credibility to a fascist party in the middle of a recession is a very dangerous thing

On the whole, we didn’t learn anything new. But at least Griffin looked like a chortling imbecile, as he awkwardly navigated his way through the session. His backtracking was priceless.