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what a damp squib that was. The level of debate was lower than the atlantic trench. Jack Straw burbled, The rest were a bunch of nobody’s. And Griffen smirked through it all like a bit character from Bunter of the Remove. Admittedly Bonnie Greer added a bit of culture and a little humour.
We’re all the members of the audience anti Griffen? It would have been more entertaining to have had a few BNP supporters there to nail the argument that they are tossers exploiting a disenfranchised and disaffected section of the population.And why was virtually the whole programme given over to BNP related topics? Surely the postal strike should have got an airing? On the one question that wasn’t BNP related – about stephen gately- Griffen agreed with everyone else that the Mail has the right to publish, but showed little responsibility. Dimbly (presumably because Griffen hadn’t attacked Homosexuality enough) then asked griffen a supplementary question to try and goad him. Why? He’d already answered the question.
The best way to show these racist tossers up is to attack them with humour. Why didn’t they put a comedian on the panel. Lenny Henry would have been perfect – and enlivened a debate that was more akin playground spat.
Comment by will atkinson October 23, 2009 @ 7:37 amI totally agree will.
Dimbleby was out to nail Griffen from the get go, so not exactly being the unbiased chair. Straw was an embarrassment. He always is, Mr Riddleman. Huhne barely got pass marks but after a poor start the Conservative Asian lady (Warsi I think) was the only one talking sense.
Bonnie Greer was a laugh (as per).
Griffen looked on the verge of a giggling breakdown, but is that any surprise as he was faced with tripwires every corner he turned? And the whole show was loaded against him.
Nevertheless he did confirm that he is a loathsome toad.
Comment by markgorman October 23, 2009 @ 7:52 amAlternative version
Comment by Alan McBlane October 23, 2009 @ 6:43 pmI agree.
I was up in the Highlands with no web, no reception, no newspapers and 4 snowy TV channels. This was a must-see in the diary.
It was kangaroo-court/playground-shove-around/total set-up in one go. I actually felt sorry for the poor toad after a while (then slapped myself and remembered to despise him). I didn’t watch til the end. It was so obviouly engineered to discredit him (which is fair enough). It was ridiculous quite some time before the end of the programme.
I agree that the token-tory-asian-woman was making sense but she wasn’t the only one and she was simply a bleeding-obvious stater. When she spoke it was like listening to the head girl addressing the prefects in a mock school debate.
Lib-dem-boy was well rehearsed but completely redundant.
Where I cannot agree with you is on the big guns of Brown’s frontline. He and his Malcolm Tucker obviously had some say in who would be pitched into battle to expose the sorry bastard. In the end they must’ve influenced it for Straw and Greer.
Straw and Greer (with help from midfield-playmaker Dimbleby) took him to bits so easily it was like watching Man Utd crush Doncaster Rovers.
Straw may not be everyone’s cup of tea (he ain’t mine) but the way he delivered on the night was exceptional. He was sent in to dismantle the BNP manifesto. For a televised debate, his experience in such matters shone like a beacon. Especially after the ancestors fighting in wars jibe. He was quite clearly the best politician on the panel. He came out on top. IMHO.
Will, I presume you’re joking with your Lenny Henry suggestion, given that his name and the word “comedian” are only very loosely connected.
Comment by James October 26, 2009 @ 1:32 pm