Nick Griffin's disastrous appearance on Question Time landed taxpayers with a £143,000 security bill.
That's how much police spent dealing with protesters outside BBC Television Centre, closing roads, and using a helicopter to keep the nutty neo-Nazi numero uno safe.
I think that most sane people will be horrified to find out that so much public money has been spent giving the no-Nazi party their best-ever publicity.
However, on balance I think it was money well-spent to show everyone, what an odious little tic the man was and how his neo-Nazi party is really the heir to Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists.
"I'm not an extremist. I'm a national socialist".
"I read Mein Kampf... there are some really useful ideas there".
And my all-time favourite: "Yes, Adolf went a bit too far... It just creates a bad image".
Showing posts with label question time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label question time. Show all posts
Friday, 27 November 2009
Friday, 23 October 2009
Griffin the muffin
Does that bigoted bouffanted buffoon, Nick Griffin have a sense of irony?
I only ask because after all that whingeing to get on QT, he was utterly weedily, rubbishly feeble.
When subjected to a mild grilling by an audience of a couple of hundred people in London, he wilted like a soggy chip in the rain.
Earlier today however, he had the nerve to compare these rather polite and mostly respectful people to a "lynch mob", whilst last night he made the stupidly mendacious comment that David Duke ex-Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was the leader of a "non-violent" organisation.
Is the man wilfully stupid, or just plain ignorant of the history of the KKK and the Deep South of the USA?
From the 1860s onwards, thousands of black men were lynched usually on spurious or made-up reasons often with the KKK being implicated as instigators or executioners.
I recommend he listens to "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday.
Mind you I doubt it, a song about lynchings, written by a Jewish man, and sung by a black woman.
One can only hope.
I won't even comment on his odious comments about London being "ethnically cleansed", what a crassly insensitive excuse for a human being.
I only ask because after all that whingeing to get on QT, he was utterly weedily, rubbishly feeble.
When subjected to a mild grilling by an audience of a couple of hundred people in London, he wilted like a soggy chip in the rain.
Earlier today however, he had the nerve to compare these rather polite and mostly respectful people to a "lynch mob", whilst last night he made the stupidly mendacious comment that David Duke ex-Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was the leader of a "non-violent" organisation.
Is the man wilfully stupid, or just plain ignorant of the history of the KKK and the Deep South of the USA?
From the 1860s onwards, thousands of black men were lynched usually on spurious or made-up reasons often with the KKK being implicated as instigators or executioners.
I recommend he listens to "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday.
Mind you I doubt it, a song about lynchings, written by a Jewish man, and sung by a black woman.
One can only hope.
I won't even comment on his odious comments about London being "ethnically cleansed", what a crassly insensitive excuse for a human being.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
When lying, lie BIG
Let me put it on the record I am a pacifist and have been and am against the war in Iraq.
However, when three former army chiefs and the commander of the Desert Rats in the first Gulf War, put their names to a letter, saying, "We call on all those who seek to hijack the good name of Britain's military for their own advantage to cease and desist", even I had to take notice.
As you might have guessed they were (probably) referring to the obnoxious and odious BNP using images of a Spitfire with the legend "Battle for Britain". How insulting and stupid can that party get?
The RAF Roll of Honour for the Battle of Britain recognises about 600 pilots from countries other than the UK, alongside more than 2,300 British pilots, that's about one-in-five of "The Few".
When I was at university in Manchester, I lived close to the Koło Polskie and made friends with an aviator who had flown with the 303 "Kosciuszko" Squadron. There was bravery and modesty all in one human package.
The antithesis of the bombastic blustering buffoon Griffin who will be preening his preposterous plumage on Question Time tomorrow.
I can only end with what the generals wrote namely that "the values of these extremists, many of whom are essentially racist, are fundamentally at odds with the values of the modern British military, such as tolerance and fairness".
However, when three former army chiefs and the commander of the Desert Rats in the first Gulf War, put their names to a letter, saying, "We call on all those who seek to hijack the good name of Britain's military for their own advantage to cease and desist", even I had to take notice.
As you might have guessed they were (probably) referring to the obnoxious and odious BNP using images of a Spitfire with the legend "Battle for Britain". How insulting and stupid can that party get?
The RAF Roll of Honour for the Battle of Britain recognises about 600 pilots from countries other than the UK, alongside more than 2,300 British pilots, that's about one-in-five of "The Few".
When I was at university in Manchester, I lived close to the Koło Polskie and made friends with an aviator who had flown with the 303 "Kosciuszko" Squadron. There was bravery and modesty all in one human package.
The antithesis of the bombastic blustering buffoon Griffin who will be preening his preposterous plumage on Question Time tomorrow.
I can only end with what the generals wrote namely that "the values of these extremists, many of whom are essentially racist, are fundamentally at odds with the values of the modern British military, such as tolerance and fairness".
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