Made me feel proud to be... Oct. 23, 2009

Occasionally you see something that electrifies you and in this case makes you realise the power of television and in particular terrestial television – the event-like nature of everyone watching something at the same time and then discussing it. X Factor and Come Dancing get people going but BBC QUESTION TIME with its accent on the people-politic was on another plain.
Being the pluralistic BBC, owned by the people, it attempts to let everyone have their say and last night it included Nick Griffin of the BNP, who amassed quite a vote only recently. All the politicians assembled, bar Nick Griffin, who was crushed on this occasion, excelled, and showed why they are politicians. The Deputy chief of the British Museum, an American, showed why she has her position.

Debate must be brought out into the open. Nick Griffin is less of a mystery to me now after Question Time – but it’s still a mystery to me why so many of my brothers voted BNP. Isolated these brothers surely were when they were asked to ut an x in the box back in the Springtime.

This BNP thing needs to be argued down, charged down – if like Nick Griffin it deserves charging down, lest in 5 years we could be faced with the first Civil War of our recent ‘indigenous’ history.