Martin Bright

How Question Time Became Important

I can’t expect anyone to bother reading another piece about Question Time, but bear with me here. In the build-up to Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time, I was convinced it was a fuss about nothing. I still can’t quite understand Peter Hain’s objection to allowing an unpleasant fascist hang himself live on TV. Good box office, sure, but surely a spectacle worth paying good money to see.


My only concern was the quality of the panel. But when it came to it,  I was pleasantly surprised. I thought Huhne, Warsi, Straw and Greer were really rather good. I have my doubts about Sayeeda Warsi’s record on radical Islam and homosexuality but I was impressed by her performance. (Griffin didn’t even bother to get in the point that he had been elected and Warsi hadn’t, but then I don’t get the feeling he’s that much of a democrat). For me, Warsi was the only panelist who really skewered Griffin when she said how appalling it was to describe the plight of white British people in terms of genocide.


It was also good to flush out the BNP leader on the Holocaust.



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