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Rightly Wry, Satirically RIGHT

So now the furore has died down (at least outside the BBC Studios) and both the protestors and the BBC Question Time (#bbcqt) panel have gone home.

Like it or loathe it, what’s done is done.

Looking back, I think Diane Abbott MP made a fair point on This Week (the show that follows #bbcqt) when she said that if a member of the public who wasn’t particularly into Politics, or wasn’t a regular viewer of #bbcqt and equally didn’t know the format was viewing because of the news coverage that individual would’ve watched an entire audience and panel with host gang up one panelist. That panelist, in this instance Nick Griffin may have gained support or sympathy from that member of the public.

What Diane says is correct and in my opinion the BBC were quite wrong to make the entire show based around the BNP instead of other issues of the week with the odd question on immigration.

It also seemed that a larger than normal representation of the audience was in Nick Griffin’s terms ‘non-indigenous’ compared to every other week.

I wholeheartedly agree that Nick Griffin should have been allowed to represent his party on such a high level. He is an elected MEP whether people like it or not.

Last time I looked we were still a Democracy unless Gordon has sold that too recently and therefore we have the right to FREE Speech although protestors outside Westminster may to choose cite a different version of events.

However, that said, the damage is done and the job of the media today is to wrap up the job that the BBC has started.

There are whole swathes in this country who rely totally on what their best mate tells them down the pub and recites that line as though it were his own. There are entire groups that gain their views from Page 6 of The Sun ‘The SUN says’ or similar.

‘The SUN says’ is an editorial, the vast majority who read it do not realise this. As an editorial this is just one person’s view and is not necessarily factual but these people take it as factual content and repeat the words later at work, in the cafe or in the pub to their best mates and so the cycle continues.

I believe the job of the British Media today is to report accurately and to report well on how Nick Griffin was defeated on issues of policy and debate not on how he was gagged or almost muted by the establishment.

Yesterday, Democratic Unionist Party MEP Diane Dodds showed an incredibly puerile maturity when she led the snubbing of both Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons on day 1 of the new school term.

Seat 782 remained empty whilst the BNP’s [finest] 780 & 781 grew more isolated as the ‘Belgian for beginner’s’ class got under away. The school bullies could only watch on in horror as the 13 strong UK Independence Party representatives gathered together with the Latin Vocab class to make a solid team of 30 ready to tackle the challenges of ‘FA Cup’ in the playground.

This was, however, not the first snub of the new term for master Griffin who was left agog at the lack of an invitation to a drinks ceremony headed up by Baroness Glenys Kinnock. When confronted by The Times, and asked to comment, master Griffin showed a level of maturity not expected of someone so infantile when he exclaimed ‘I would not share a drink with Glenys Kinnock. She is a political prostitute, simple as that.’

There will be those that will round on me for mentioning this incredibly important and bold gesture by Ms Dodds by stating that the school bully and his gang were democratically elected and yes, in truth they were; but so was the milk monitor in Class2c but that didn’t stop ANY of us taunting him for being an overweight, rascist oaf!