Swatting Nick Griffin.

All the fuss over Thursdays appearance by Nick Griffin on Question Time is a bit sad. Lots of very earnest people screamed and shouted outside the BBC. They fought with Police and were seen being dragged out of TV Centre.

What did they hope to achieve ?

Simple - an increase in votes for the BNP.

Nick Griffin always like to present himself and his party as victims of "the system". Everyone is against them and by extension, the Hardworking British People. Had he been banned from QT then it would have been grist to his mill. As it was he came out whining about the way he was treated.

To be fair, he has a bit of a point. A million people voted for him. A million people think he is right (I won't accept protest votes, you vote for the harmless nutter as a protest, not the scheming Nazi) and that every non-white person should be ejected from the country. These people have a right to their opinion as much as anyone else no matter how abhorrent it might appear to be. So demented people being dragged out shouting "Shame on you BBC" are saying these people don't deserve votes.

In my opinion, Griffin deserved to be on QT so he could be shown up for what he is. If Jack Straw hadn't been so hopeless (come on Jack, you knew there would be a question on immigration and a meandering waffle doesn't count as an answer) then he'd have looked even more stupid than he did. His weird laugh was a start though.

Anyway, there is a simple way to defeat him. Not anger. Laughter.

At present, the BNP are taken very seriously. It's what they want. If we wish to defeat them then we need to laugh at them for the idiotic bigots that they are. Even Hitler wouldn't have got so far if people had just pointed and chortled at the sill little man. Griffin met with a chorus of the George Dawes "Shooting Stars" theme would look even stupider. If the crowd screaming at him had sung "He's a Baby. He's a Baby" in unison then the effect would have probably destroyed him.