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Baiting of Nick Griffin portrayed the BNP leader as a martyr
I AGREE with your editorial, especially your point that last week's edition of Question Time was designed to ensure that one member of the panel was attacked throughout, namely Nick Griffin ("Question Time fails in handling of BNP - Abandoning usual format was a mistake", The Herald, October 24).See the full content of this document
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Regrettably, Nick Griffin has a challengeable point in saying that this particular edition was not conducted as a proper Question Time, especially since all but one or two of the questions were aimed specifically at him. David Dimbleby's chairmanship, which fell below its usual standard, and the baying of the crowd almost made Mr Griffin look like a martyr.
On top of that, the panel could hardly have been more deliberately hand-picked to keep the pot boiling and make the issue of the evening Mr Griffin, rather than the main topics of the day such as the economy, on which his views might have been elicited.Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary at Westminster, did not help his own cause, or hinder the BNP's, by evading the question...See the full content of this document
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