Nearly eight million people watched BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time last night. How did the claims they heard check out?
The claim
"I'm very happy for [a non-white audience member born in Britain] to stay here. What we've said is that we believe it's time to shut the door because this country is overcrowded. That criminals, bogus asylum seekers and people who aren't loyal to this country should be deported and everyone else can stay."
Nick Griffin MEP, BBC One's Question Time, 22 October 2009.
The analysis
Griffin omits to mention a significant and contentious part of his party's immigration policy - to "offer generous grants to those of foreign descent resident here who wish to leave permanently".
The party's statement that "we want Britain to remain - or return to - the way it has traditionally been" is hard to square up with the sense that British people from ethnic minorities would be welcomed in a BNP-run Britain.
The sources
BNP immigration policy
Hat-Tip to Nich Starling, Norfolk Blogger
1 comment:
I despise the BNP and all they stand for but sadly, and I mean sadly, there are going to be quite a few people voting for them. The youths and those who do not understand or take an interest in politics will no doubt vote for them for the sheer fun of it. Reasons being that Brown's Government have and are constantly letting the British people down.
The youth cannot relate to the likes of Jack Straw or silver spoon fed David Cameron. The youth of today may not take an interest in politics, but they do take an interest in the news and daily gossip, hence the fact that many will in my opinion vote the BNP just to stick two fingers up at the people currently running this country. I have recently followed forums containing youths and they have indeed spoken about voting for the BNP because they feel they have absolutely nothing to loose. Some even commented that their parents have lost jobs because the immigrants have taken them by under cutting businesses. I thought what the BBC aired was a dangerous bit of viewing and it clearly is going to be: Watch this space.
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