Nick Griffin to appear on Mock The Week.
Posted by Andy Bowden in Uncategorized, tags: BNP, fascism, racism, tv
The Mock The Week team. Just out of shot, death camps.
Well, not exactly. BNP head honcho has been invited on to Question Time. It’s not unsurprising – the BNP got 6% of the vote, almost a million voters backing them and 2 MEP’s to the European Parliament. It was the first time a fascist party has won national representation.
Griffins like a Tyrannosaur, his vision is based on movement
The BNP may have been shut out of the media 10 years ago, as a fringe racist party increasingly they’re getting coverage above and beyond their vote.
After failing his joint honours in Sports Science and Art at Paisley tech, layabout student Hitler was invited on to Call My Bluff. 4 years later he started a war of annihilation on two fronts
BBC Radio had an hour long phone in in on the BNP during the Euro Elections, where callers were allowed to make racist attacks unchallenged – apart from the incompetent radio host who took a while to remember/be told Griffin had a conviction for inciting racial hatred.
Nick showing a cheeky bit of man boob here in a tight white t shirt.
Thats what people should remember in the “freedom of speech” debate – freedom of speech should not include freedom to incite violence or hate against someone, regardless of whether or not it’s been giving a Nazi PR job.
Nobody on the BBC would consider giving a spot on desert island discs to a radical Islamist preacher on the basis that their organisation was technically legal.
And the tabloid press didn’t defend the right of Islamic fundamentalists to march through London condemning the west on the basis of “freedom of speech”. Neither did they Iranian regimes disgusting Holocaust denial cartoons. In fact an Arab group is facing criminal charges for distributing a cartoon denying the Holocaust
And the reason for that is quite simple – most people in the UK don’t accept people who support blowing them up on tubes, discriminating against them on the basis of religion etc should have the freedom to organise to make that vision a reality.
So why should Black, Gay, Muslim etc people sit back and let people who want to deport, firebomb, and persecute them have their “freedom of speech”?
That’s still the aim of the BNP despite their “modernisation”. Griffin still says he wants to return the UK to it’s “white” status before WW2. He now argues he is against forcing blacks to leave by compulsion – the previous BNP policy – but says BNP policy now is “assisted repatriation”.
The fact is though that millions of Black and Asian people aren’t going to return to their “countries of origin” no matter how much they are paid. How many Scottish Catholics would go back to Ireland, rip up their connections to family and friends, and start again in a whole new country?
Imagine that suggestion for third generation Pakistanis – not only would they be moving to a country thats totally different from the UK, but where they would almost certainly have a lower standard of living than here.
The only way to return the UK to being 99% white is through intimidation and discrimination against ethnic minorities. No other method will achieve the goal of an all-white UK, and the BNP know it.
The BNP still want to ethnically cleanse the UK, they are just a lot more “New Labour” about selling themselves. If there’s one thing Socialists should watch wi Nick Griffin in it, it’s this you tube video where he outlines quite well the BNP strategy of rebranding themselves.
Griffin – talking to KKK members – outlines how he is interesting in “sellling the BNPs” ideas, not “selling them out”. He correctly argues that no one will back deporting all black people today, but in the future if their ideas hold sway this goal could be achieved later.
Some folk think that sticking Nick Griffin on Newsnight, Question Time etc will do harm to the BNP as their ideas can be challenged. But the reality is the BNP have had media coverage by the truckload and their balance sheet from it is overwhelmingly positive.
Griffin may be a racist, a fascist but he is also extremely able and articulate in phrasing his ideas and message in a sellable form. He has taken the far-right out of the back rooms of pubs and into the European Parliament.
He will be able to incite hatred against the Muslim population of the UK if he is allowed on Question Time. People who want to deny the freedom to exist free from fear of racist violence for millions of people in the UK shouldn’t have the freedom of the airwaves.
Of course denying the BNP airtime won’t stop them. It’s probably too late in many areas, where the BNP have substantial local support.
The BNP have to be beaten in their strongholds in England by Socialists campaigning for decent jobs, houses, education and freedom from crime for many of the people who currently vote BNP, and change the frame of the political debate so its the bankers who have stolen billions who face the heat, not immigrants and Muslims.
But where the BNP are weak, in Scotland for example, they should be confronted. That doesn’t mean bricking them, but it does mean using your right of freedom of speech to politely tell anyone who is going to take a BNP leaflet that one war against fascism should be enough.
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