Interesting

I seemed to be out on a limb with my assessment of the Question Time train wreck. In essence, I said that the politicians were all fucking useless, Griffin won but Huhne was the only politician who looked like he landed any blows. Everyone else had a different perspective.

But lo and behold:

The topline voting intentions, with changes from the poll last weekend, are CON 40%(-1), LAB 27%(-3), LDEM 19%(+2), BNP 3%(+1).

This was a bit scary:

More significant are the 7% who would definitely or probably consider voting BNP at some point in the future.

Really, given the utter uselessness of the politicians at exposing the weakness of the BNP's economic and other policies (I think their racial policies are pretty exposed already), is it any surprise that people who want to vote for "the Labour Party your grandfather voted for" were swayed by claims of the new non-racial BNP?

I mean, they have to be fucking idiots to start off with, surely?

Tip of the clown wig to the deluded socialist.

A Question of Cunts

So, BBC Question Time featuring Nick Griffin has been and gone.

And I have to say, Griffin can go home tonight feeling very, very happy. He didn't fuck up, he was as slippery as Jack Straw when it came to difficult questions, he went into the most hostile audience / panel / chair combination I've ever seen and he survived it.

He had twenty tonnes of glorious publicity, he held his own against severe challenges and he looked in charge of himself and of the situation. He didn't convince me and he didn't convince anyone in the studio, but I think a lot of people who were watching might feel differently.

And why?

Because the politicians didn't take him seriously and lined up the most useless panel of twats against him. When Chris fucking Huhne stands out as the guy who landed the best punches, you fucking know you're in trouble. Their combined intellectual efforts were not enough to land a killer blow.

So he's had acres of press coverage, riots trying to shut him down, didn't get (metaphorically) killed in a seriously hostile show ... as far as he concerned, it couldn't have gone any better unless he'd been gang-raped by Warsi and Greer.

Well done to the intellectual heavyweights in the LibLabCon clusterfuck for screwing his one completely and utterly.

Update: Peter Hoskin makes a good point here. Only one real blow landed on him, and it was an own goal.

Update 2: The Curate's Egg has a good bit.

No platform? No brains!

Christ, I see the mongtards of the Labour Party are still protesting that Nick Griffin should be "no-platformed". Some dickwad has just been on the news wittering on about how the leaders of the big three parties should not allow their MPs to appear next to the monocular mentalist. Sorry, the other monocular mentalist.

But fucking Jesus, folks, has anyone fucking noticed how well the fucking no-platform strategy has worked so far? I mean, the BNP was not allowed a platform up till now, and they managed to get electoral success. Nick Griffin is a fucking MEP, in an irony implosion of note. Giving the fuckers no platform hasn't done fucking shit to stop them.

So why the fucking fuck are people still trying to promote the idea? Jesus, Dianne Abbott just about tied herself in knots this morning trying to explain why she supported freedom of speech but the BNP shouldn't be allowed to air its views.

Labour is fucking shitting themselves over this one, and it's pretty clear why: they know that the BNP shares a massive amount of common policy and common ideology with them. They know that when people look at the BNP and Labour side by side, they're going to find them a lot more in common than different.

And nobody likes looking in the mirror and seeing the truth.

Update: I'm not sure why Justin appears to have snubbed me, but this is still a cracking post.

So, maybe he's not all bad, then?

BNP chief Nick Griffin says Tony Blair and Gordon Brown should be HANGED for waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Indeed. And for many other things besides.

Amusing that he should be the one making comparisons with Nazi Germany, but I suppose the subject is a bit nearer and dearer to him than for most other people. I wonder how anti-war protesters calling for the prosecution of Blair and the many Muslims who (quite justifiably) resent the invasion of predominantly Muslim countries in the name of oil and spreading Western hegemony, feel about making common cause with yet another monocular mentalist.

Overall, I think it was quite a clever move. The self-righteous indignation that's frothing up is because Griffin said what an awful lot of people are really thinking, but they don't want to be associated with "BNP nastiness". He's provoked people into a knee-jerk reaction, but if he keeps banging out things that "the common people" are thinking anyway, the bad press he gets will, I reckon, be countered by actual voters thinking: "Well, he calls it how I see it, what do the fucking papers know anyway? And the Tories and Labour are all the same anyway, only looking after themselves. Maybe I'll give this bloke a go."

Possibly they will be holding their nose (as Marxist Dave Osler so amusingly keeps saying while voting for a largely right-wing, authoritarian Labour Party) - but they will listen to a politician who at least sounds like he's in touch with what real people are thinking.

The out-of-touch, focus-group-driven, Westminster-bubbled "Red" Labour Party and the indistinguishable Blue Labour and Yellow Labour parties with their imaginary worlds have no-one to blame for the impending success of the BNP but themselves.