The Day Democracy Nearly Died...

It's funny how one man can cause so much uproar and violence courtesy of a one hour television appearance. I would like to categorically state now that I am not a racist and in no way support the British National Party or any of its associates.

Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time had been building to a climax that errupted in a cataclysmic anti-BNP rant on the BBC's flagship political debate programme. This is a subject that has irked me for some time hence why I am devoting another blog to it. The man may be deluded and may have some atrocious policies but it is his right in a democratic country to air his views in a public forum. Is it going too far to say that the BBC have today saved democracy in Britain?

I sometimes wonder about the severity of the stranglehold that Political Correctness has over every aspect of society in Great Britain when the idiots in our so-called government can wage an illegal war in the Middle East in the name of democracy yet do not want to allow the leader of a party with two elected MEPs to contribute to a political debate. In fact, "debate" is hardly what I would call Thursday's programme. Mr Griffin was invited on the programme in the interest of impartiality however, the so called 'debate' turned into one massive demonisation of the man and his party.

When will these tree-hugging, Sun-reading, ignoramuses learn that his appearance would have done nothing at all to increase BNP support. However, the way he has been hounded and not even allowed to answer questions due to interruptions may work in Mr Griffin's favour. He may be a manipulative man but the points he made about Iraq were spot on in my view. He said: "We should have stayed out of Iraq and we must let the middle eastern countries deal with their own affairs", or words to that effect. I agree with him. Does that make me a racist? Does that mean I automatically support the BNP? No of course not but to the idiots in the "anti-fascist league", I'll bet I'm right up there next to Hitler and Satan himself.

How can Jack Straw talk of the BNP having "no moral compass"? Of course, how silly of me: lying to Parliament and the British public is fine isn't it Mr Straw. All this coming from the man who cowered and "wriggled out" of John Humphries's questioning on the 'sexed-up dossier' whilst appearing on the Today programme. What a joke.

I only hope there is time for the idiots who jump on the bandwagon to realise that there is a democratic right of free speech on this fair and sceptred isle. Listening to a text read out by Jeremy Vine on his lunchtime Radio 2 show today made me realise a great irony in all this. The text went something like this: "A lot of people who are protesting against Nick Griffin's appearance need to remember one crucial point. They protest now but down the pub, they, along with every other working man will be spouting this same sort of BNP material"

He's probably right.

Threats from the right?

With a weekend of fantastic, entertaining sporting action behind us, we can always count on Monday mornings to bring us back down to earth with a bump.

Congratulations to Jenson Button for finally securing the World Drivers' Championship with a superb drive at Interlagos yesterday evening. It seems as if the Brawn GP cars have set a standard that every other constructor will be striving for next year, which can only mean another season of mouthwatering Formula 1.

Staying with the sporting thread, you can now read my match report from Saturday's League One encounter between Swindon Town and Hartlepool United.

http:/www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/MatchReport/0, ,10341~47765,00.html

In the news, the BBC may face legal action over including the BNP's "man we all love to hate", Nick Griffin on the corporation's flagship debate programme Question Time, due to be broadcast on Thursday. Welsh secretary Peter Hain has written to the BBC warning them that the BNP are, at present, and unlawful body following the recent court decision regarding its membership and has called the decision to include Mr Griffin "unreasonable, irrational and unlawful".

The BBC have responded by saying that "if there was an election tommorow, then the BNP would be allowed to stand as candidates. Our audiences and the electorate will be able to make up their own minds about the different policies offered by elected politicians"

WELL DONE BBC! Who does Mr Hain think he is telling the BBC who they should and should not have on their programmes? Is he one of many people now jumping on the anti-BNP bandwagon who all of a sudden see them as a threat because they won an almighty TWO seats at the recent EU elections? Is he scared that Mr Griffin will cut off Wales from the UK if he came to power? I thought the Welsh wanted independence?

I think I can speak for anyone vaguely interested in news and/or current affairs when I say that I cannot wait for Thursday's Question Time when Mr Griffin is going to get pounded on all sides by everyone from the bearded lefties to lettuce-hugging Greens to the blazered public schoolboys of the Conservative party.

In my eyes, it seems that Mr Hain is unaware (as most of the Labour Party seems to be unaware of everything at the moment) that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a democracy. I'm going to set the record straight now - as a young Briton of Polish extraction why would I want the BNP in power? I'm not a fascist and I'm not a racist but does no-one else find this little tussle between the BNP and everyone else really fascinating? Listening to these guys talk endlessly about their policies and the uproar that it seems to cause in a society so cocooned in beurocracy and red tape that one can't even call a spade, a spade anymore.

Put it this way, at least they have a clear manifesto unlike the three main parties that seem to have taken to the "Tony Blair" way of doing things and just changing the odd policy here and there to make it look like a brand new toy.

James Joyce's Ullyses broke the mould in English literature and brought us into the Modernism era. Are right or left wing parties like the BNP going to break the mould in politics?

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