Straw: Labour’s choice to take on Nick Griffin

Jack Straw has announced that the BNP edition of Question Time will be aired on 22 October and that he will be Labour’s choice to take on Nick Griffin. Great news for the BNP. Labour should have sent a street fighter, not a desk general. Jon Cruddas is far and away the best BNP baiter in the Labour party, touring Dagenham council houses and talking voters out of supporting Griffin’s party. Straw has in the past been accused of bending brutish foreign policy to assuage Muslims in his Blackburn constituency, and the closest he gets to BNP fighting is writing pieces for his local newspaper telling Muslims not to wear the veil when visiting him in his constituency office. But he is playing the hard man to the BBC today:

“Wherever we have had BNP problems in my area and when we have fought them hard, we’ve pulled back and won the seats back.