March 22, 2010
The debate between British National Party leader Nick Griffin MEP and Revd George Hargreaves of the Christian Party, broadcast live on Revelation TV, was what Question Time should have been: an open exchange of views without a resident lynch mob.
Even the panel chairman on the debate, Gordon Pettie, remarked on the remarkable difference between the debate and Question Time, telling viewers that at least we can hear what Nick Griffin has to say.
The debate was conducted in an orderly and highly civilised fashion with the audience equally divided between BNP and Christian Party supporters.
Each side was granted equal time to present their point of view and respond to questions in a calm and rational manner.
Mr Griffin showed time and time again that the BNP was none of the things which the far leftist cranks claimed it to be, and at one stage Revd Hargreaves apologised to the BNP leader for a billboard last year which attacked the BNP in a most derogatory manner.
The contrast between the conduct of the debate on Revelation TV and that of the BBCs Question Time could not have been more obvious, Mr Griffin told BNP News after the hour long show.
Anyone who was possibly still undecided about the blatant set-up which was Question Time would have had their darkest fears confirmed by the debate with Revd Hargreaves, Mr Griffin said.
It was a fair and frank exchange of views, unhindered by the blatant partisanship which marked the BBCs Question Time.
The chairman of the panel simply did his job in the context of the show, and did not try to inject his personal point of view as on the BBC show.
Furthermore, the questions asked from both sides were fair and reasonably put, even if searching, and both participants were granted opportunity to answer them in full without being shouted down by a pre-primed lynch mob, Mr Griffin said.
We demonstrated that the BNP is not motivated by anything else but a love of preserving Britain, and all that this entails.
I am sure that this will resonate throughout Britain as an example of what civilised debate can be, and should be, in the Britain we all love, Mr Griffin said.
The end of the show was marked by a friendly mixing of participants and audience which underlay the highly civilised nature of the entire debate.
The founder of Revelation TV, Howard Conder, who handled the microphone taking questions from the audience, featured prominently in the programme.
Mr Conder had tried to debate with the leftist fascists who had gathered to demonstrate outside the studio on the democratic rights of all people to present their views.
The demonstrators, made up of a motley collection of violence-prone UAF gangsters and Hope not Hate Searchlight Communist Party front liars, behaved so reprehensibly that even Mr Condor described them as rabble on the live TV show
bbc need to take notice of this..this is how debates should be.
TheHackerFront 1 year ago 16
Great to see the BNP rising against ignorance
Anglosaxonbnp 1 year ago 13