Nazi De Jour

[poliphilo]

We stayed up to watch Nick Griffin on Question Time- as did 8 million others (or should that be nine hundred thousand, nine hundred and ninety eight).

He's a funny looking cove. Squat, fat-faced, with a glass eye (just like Gordon Brown) and a thatch of coarse black hair. When he makes a joke he crinkles up and goes all geeky. 

He's clever enough to want to present himself as a mild-mannered, mainstream politician and emphatically Not a Nazi- a strategy that falls foul of YouTube- but he can't be that clever or he wouldn't believe that the present government is committing "genocide" against the "indigenous" people of Britain. Maybe the word should be "cunning" rather than "clever".  Cunning but stupid is an entirely viable combination.
 
Only in politics could someone so unappetizing become any sort of a star. 

A lamentable side effect of having him on a show like this is that it permits a trio of mainstream party hacks- including the slippery and sinister Jack Straw- to come on like they're the tribunes of the people. 

The viewing figures (nearly three times what this show normally gets) are depressing and I'm sorry I added to them. 

Comments

[oakmouse]

I suspect many other viewers watched for the same reasons you did --- not to support Griffin but to observe him.

His face gives me the creeps in an ill-defined way. But I know one thing: a man with a face like that could be the next Buzz Windrip (Brazelius P. Windrip, the charismatic dictator in Sinclair Lewis' 1930s novel It Can't Happen Here).

[sovay]

including the slippery and sinister Jack Straw

That sounds like a tricky figure in a folktale.

[silverhawkdruid.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch it last night, but after hearing how he felt that he had to face a 'lynchmob' on Question Time, curiosity got the better and I went on iplayer and endured the programme, and it was painful. I suspect Jack Straw has never received so much applause in his life, and Griffin showed himself up for the racist ignoramus he truly is. I wouldn't worry about adding to the viewing figures. I suspect that the majority of those tuning in who don't normally watch the programme, just wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I doubt it will have done that much for him or his group. I won't call them a political party because they aren't according to our laws.

Wasn't Bonnie Greer good though? I was most impressed with her. She didn't let him get away with anything. :-)

Was the programme an early Christmas present for his party? Emphatic NO!