The BNP

Last night, The Sofa watched 'Question Time'. Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, was perhaps the most interesting guy on the panel. The most interesting thing about the show was the controversy surrounding it. TS did laugh as people were dragged out of the BBC foyer by their feet shouting about defending Nazis. Personally, TS thinks that people are going a bit down the wrong alley - stopping the BNP from appearing will simply be acting as they do. Allowing extremest groups to say what they believe is the price we pay for a democracy.

TS is currently listening to the show put across on the radio. Here's its pbp review on what he said:

1. Churchill would not be in the BNP. He was fighting against fascism, not agreeing with it.
2. Nick Griffin never said anything. Everything he said is misquoted.
3. We need beeps at 11:35? In fact, why is it on at 11:35 - a lot of younger people are interested in it too. The only reason The Sofa got to watch it is because it doesn't have to go to school tomorrow.
   
4. The Sofa loves Bonnie Greer. She can put Nick in his place in one sentence. As good as the Doctor!
5. Scapegoating - It's also what Hitler did with the Jews. And the Communists, and the foreigners, and the gypsies and the homosexuals and anyone he could find to blame.
6. I wish Nick would work out what he did or did not say, and what the BNP actually stands for.
7. The BNP is a racist party - firstly they have to say they're not. Secondly they only let in whites at the moment.
   
8. Stalin cut out people and history that he didn't like in Russia. Stalin was not a very nice person.
   
9. THANK YOU!!! Even the Sofa knows that we all came from Africa!
10. Shifty...there's laws that say he can't talk about Holocaust Denial - explain yourself, Nick!
11. Nick, no-one looks at those rules in Islam today. Yes, women are often treated lower, but people are working about that. There are more worries about extremists than the normal follower of Islam.
    
12. You consider Britain Christian? You look at the small print in the Koran? Have you looked at the small print in the Bible? Because that suit could probably be made of polyester.
    
13. The Sofa does tend to agree with Nick about Iraq and Iran, but for different reasons.
14. It's a good job the Bonnie did her research about the Romans. The Sofa knows about the multicultural armies of the Romans and the fact that there is no such thing as an indigenous Briton.
15. Nick might be shifty, but the other politicians aren't much good either. Just answer the question, Jack Straw.
16. People don't really like how the government runs anything, let alone immigration.
17. Ooh... since when were indigenous Britons anything other than white?
    
18. Grr... they're not Red Indians.
19. WHAT? Why would a tour be cancelled because people who were white were the only people using it?!
20. Genocide is all about killing. Homicide, regicide, infanticide etc.
    
21. Yes! All of us were from Africa!
22. Dick Griffin? He might be a racist idiot, but that doesn't mean he needs to be insulted.
    
23. Which opinion poll? The one run by the BNP?
24. Bogus asylum seekers? Thank you Baroness Varsi!
25. Just admit that you need to tackle the issue, Jack!
26. I didn't like the article either, but I agree we have the right to free speech. Just like the BNP.
    
27. Against the teaching of homosexuality to primary school children? Half the reason that homosexual children have problems is because they don't know what's going on. People are treated badly half the time because people don't know.
    
28. A lot of Christians disagree with you, Nick.
29. MILITANT HOMOSEXUALS?! What is a militant homosexual?
30. Oh yes there is, Nick! Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
31. Gay and lesbian AND the rest. Bisexual, transgender etc.
32. It's probably a Christmas present. It shouldn't be - we've just seen how awful they really are. They do have the right to come on and say what they believe. 
33. YES! The BNP can say what they want, but unless the British public say 'Yes, we accept them.' we're fine.
34. Yes you did, say it Nick! 
35. How is the BBC ultra-leftist?

The sofa still doesn't know what the big issue is all about. Most of the public has the common sense to reject the BNP.

-The Sofa