Heh, a different thing to worry about!

So Griffin appeared on the show and turned out to not have a reasonable veneer. Or had one for about the minute before he tried to hit back at Jack Straw with a "my dad could have your dad" argument, and went down hill from there.

It seems now rather than getting respectability from appearing the reasonable Dick, he turned into the helpless chap the more savvy politicos were "bullied" by. Well boo fucking hoo. Griff old boy if you wanna get into the ring, you better be able to take a punch or two or at least put your fists up. To prolong this analogy a shade more, Griff stepped into the ring like a panto villain (hello chorus of boos), stood in the ring, shrugged a bit and then spent the next hour punching himself in the face. And now he apparently gets empathy, for not just being a tosser, but a self defeating one too. Dear dear me.

Let's chat about the other people on the show.

Jack Straw: talked. then talked some more and just when he made an interesting point he carried on! Snoozefest.

Lib Dem Chap: Was apparently there.

Dimbleby: crowd control using a demonic tie. Good work otherwise, yeah.

Baroness Warsi: Worked well until the topic about Gately/Moir reared its head. I got the impression that she wanted to condemn the notion of a civil partnership, but realised that would meant she agreed with Griffin and thought better of it. Additionally, her criticism of Straw/Labour was justified and well made, albeit the same point was stated about 18 times.

Bonnie Greer: an absolute hero. While remaining constantly (justifiably) offended by the knobhead, she gave him interesting words and thoughts.

It's somewhat regretabble that the BNP probably gained a few (hopefully very few) new empathizers. But there is a hope in my heart that maybe, maybe, enough people saw this and realise what not voting actually means. It means dickheads like this get into seats of power and cancer their way into stronger and stronger positions, just because no-one can be bothered to root them out when they are more minor threat. Hopefully this will also wake up politicos into realising an entire nation is their's to serve, not just the few people who will swing the elections.

Sayonara for now, folks

K