The Nick Griffin Show

So Question Time with the BNP as just one guest was actually the attacking the BNP and Nick Griffin show. The usual wide variety of topics was replaced by just immigration and race topics, apart from the Stephen Gately/Jan Moir story.

Key points:
Jack Straw's panicky and disingenuous way of answering the question as to whether the rise in the BNP is due to failings by the Labour party on immigration policy. Contrast his reply with Baroness Warsi's more honest one about resources. Baroness Warsi did fall into the trap that so many fall into of saying that we need "the brightest and best", this is what many argue by describing the benefits of allowing American bankers (maybe no more), French computer scientists etc. to come here but ignoring the sometimes workshy, violent immigrants from other cultures.

The question posed by the well suited gentleman to Jack Straw about Labour's culpability on the matter of immigration which was linked to Frank Field's comments as reported this morning. Listening to Jack Straw worry about "having to be authoritarian" was almost hysterical coming from just one of the sequence of authoritarian Labour Home Secretaries that have been inflicted on this country.

Nick Griffin did at least attack the BBC for being leftist, which is more than any Conservative MP or MEP has done on TV.

So what will the results of the Nick Griffin appearance be? I don't think it will be any sort of tipping point. The BNP may gain a little credibility but I don't think that much. Jack Straw's diminishing credibility has taken yet another knock. Baroness Warsi may be used even more on the media as she performed very well.