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BNP Leader Nick Griffin humbled on Radio 5 Live
by Alan Stevens on 12-May-09 2:32pm
A totally expected declaration of interest - I can't abide Nick Griffin or the party that he leads, the BNP. However, I have rarely heard his radical views more cleverly brought out in to the open than this morning, when he was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live by NIcky Campbell.
Mr Griffin was forced to admit that he had once been a Holocaust denier, but said that he had changed his mind. He then spoke about his party's policy of looking after "indigenous British people". Campbell asked him what he meant, and Griffin argued that only white people could really claim to be "English". Campbell asked whether England footballers like Theo Walcott and Rio Ferdinand were really "English" Griffin, caught up in his own Alice-in-wonderland world replied "Of course they aren't English, they're Afro-Caribbean." He continued "I might go and live in Jamaica, but I could never be Jamaican because I'm not black". Campbell resisted the obvious question about where Griffin thought the black people in Jamaica had come from, and simply let him talk himself deeper into a hole.
It was a masterpiece of gentle extraction of a politician's true nature. No wonder the five live breakfast show won a Sony award last night.
Furthermore, anyone tempted to vote for Griffin and his unpleasant little party should listen to the interview on the BBC iPlayer before casting their vote in the Euro elections.
Quite.
by Alan Stevens on 12-May-09 2:32pm
A totally expected declaration of interest - I can't abide Nick Griffin or the party that he leads, the BNP. However, I have rarely heard his radical views more cleverly brought out in to the open than this morning, when he was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live by NIcky Campbell.
Mr Griffin was forced to admit that he had once been a Holocaust denier, but said that he had changed his mind. He then spoke about his party's policy of looking after "indigenous British people". Campbell asked him what he meant, and Griffin argued that only white people could really claim to be "English". Campbell asked whether England footballers like Theo Walcott and Rio Ferdinand were really "English" Griffin, caught up in his own Alice-in-wonderland world replied "Of course they aren't English, they're Afro-Caribbean." He continued "I might go and live in Jamaica, but I could never be Jamaican because I'm not black". Campbell resisted the obvious question about where Griffin thought the black people in Jamaica had come from, and simply let him talk himself deeper into a hole.
It was a masterpiece of gentle extraction of a politician's true nature. No wonder the five live breakfast show won a Sony award last night.
Furthermore, anyone tempted to vote for Griffin and his unpleasant little party should listen to the interview on the BBC iPlayer before casting their vote in the Euro elections.
Quite.