POLICE SECURITY FOR GRIFFIN ON QUESTION TIME COST £143,000

BNP leader Nick Griffin’s controversial appearance on Question Time will cost taxpayers £143,000 in police costs, it was revealed today.


Critics are now calling for the BBC to pay for the cost of protecting the leader of the far right party from anti-fascist groups who protested outside the corporation's studios in west London, last month.  The Met drafted in thousands of extra police at a cost of £109,000 and spent a further £13,000 in overtime, and £21,000 on road closures, erecting barriers and a helicopter.  The decision to invite Mr Griffin on to Question Time prompted a mass demonstration, with at least 500 protesters picketing the corporation.


Labour MP Andy Slaughter, whose constituency covers the Television Centre in White City, said BBC bosses should pay for the security out of the £17.5 million they pocketed in bonuses last year.

Sorry, I don't believe that should be the case.  The cost should be paid for by London Council Taxpayers.  If they want to have all these HQs on their doorstep they have to pay for them, the same way that Glasgow and Scotland as a whole is paying for the COMMONWEALTH GAMES.  We should not IMO be paying for the London Olympics but that is another matter.

Were the BBC right to have Griffin on QUESTIONTIME?  I believe so, but as discussed on previous postings the show was badly directed and presented.  As ARISTOTLE once said, "WHEN THE SWORD OF DAMACLESE FALLS, SOME FUCKER'S GOING TO GET CUT"! 

BLACK MAN CLEARED OF ABUSING NICE MR GRIFFIN

GRIFFIN AND SOME OF HIS HENCHMEN IN BURNLEY

An Asian man who was accused of shouting racial abuse at BNP leader Nick Griffin was cleared today.


Tauriq Khalid, 23, denied shouting 'WHITE BASTARDS' at far-right demonstrators in his home town of Burnley, Lancashire, in November last year.
A jury of five women and seven men cleared Khalid of one count of using racially abusive threatening behaviour after deliberating for 45 minutes following a three-day trial at Preston Crown Court.


Khalid admitted shouting derisory comments from his car window at far-right BNP demonstrators outside Burnley police station.
He told the jury he stopped his silver Vauxhall Astra and shouted "Nick Griffin, you FUCKING WANKER' and made a V-sign with his fingers.
He also admitted he shouted several times 'get the FUCK out of Burnley, you're not welcome here'.
But he denied making a gun gesture towards Mr Griffin, a North West MEP with an office in Burnley, or that he indicated he intended to shoot him.


I think he probably did call GRIFFIN, A WHITE BASTARD. So Griffin should have been allowed to call him BLACK BASTARD. No need for a three day trial costing fortunes and everybody goes home happy. BUT NO! The PC POLICE HAVE GOT TO GET INVOLVED and look for trouble where there is none. FOR FUCK'S SAKE LET'S GROW UP. He is a FUCKING WANKER, we know it, his wife knows it and he probably knows it.

MOVE ON FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

WHEN BONNIE GREER MET NICK GRIFFIN

I'd like to give you for your perusal a piece of text I lifted from the article in the LONDON EVENING STANDARD by DAVID COHEN, (an interesting choice of journalist?), WHEN BONNIE GREER MET NICK GRIFFIN, sorry I don't know how to link it.

Why was she not more strident in her attacks on him? "I didn't need to, because others like Jack Straw waded in so heavily. I felt my job was to subtly lampoon him, toy with him, expose the idiocy of his ideas.
"I didn't want to come across as the angry, screaming black woman pointing my finger and hollering because that's how people like Griffin and his supporters view black women. I saw us as a team - it wasn't an ego thing, wasn't as if I had to take him down all on my own."
There was a touching moment, she says, just before they started recording when Sayeda Warsi ran over to her and said: "Are you okay sitting next to Griffin?" "I said: 'I'm from Chicago, I'm not scared of this guy!' And we just hugged spontaneously. We were like two prize-fighters going into the ring to do battle."

TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT THE MINDSET OF THE PANEL!

NICK GRIFFIN ON QUESTION TIME

Nick Griffin was booed, jeered and mocked by a hostile television audience on the BBC's Question Time last night.
But the British National Party leader's priceless air time still left the Corporation facing accusations of 'publicity-seeking' naivety.
Senior Labour figures warned of racist attacks in the coming days, leaving the BBC with 'blood on its hands'.

THAT'S THE MAIL'S VIEW.

What do I think? I know most of you don't give a monkey's chuff, but here goes!

Well first I believe the BBC did it's usual stitch up job. The audience were from West London, where naturally they are multi-racial and I have never seen so many skull caps and coloured people in the audience in many years of watching Question Time.

The Panel consisted of two people of Jewish extraction, a Muslim Woman and a black American "intellectual". They obviously thought it was their duty to attack the BNP policies instead of answering the questions, in particular Jack Straw who tried to take over the show and whose party, the Labour party, are to blame for the BNP's rise to prominence.

Nick Griffin, particularly at the beginning looked nervous and shifty when questioned by members of the audience. He was however in my opinion, not put under the spotlight enough so that his policies could be scrutinised and this was the fault of Dimbleby.

Towards the end of the programme he improved and a number of the other panelists were unable to answer his questions on immigration, particularly Straw and this will resonate in his BNP heartland which is not West London but the North of England.

How did Nick Griffin and the BNP come out of it? Well I think in the areas in which they will get votes, they will get more votes because the management of the programme was very poor and will go against the British Peoples' inert feeling of fairness to the extent that he looked bullied and no-one likes a bully!