Ahead of tonight’s BBC1 Question Time – featuring the BNP leader Nick Griffin – The Guardian reports his verdicts on his fellow panellists. Here’s what he said about Chris Huhne, the L:ib Dems’ shadow home secretary:
Big hitter. Menzies Campbell would have been more daunting.”
And here’s what he said about the other panellists:
Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic: “The joker in the pack; knows how to look after herself and may be more of a handful than the others.”
Jack Straw, justice secretary: “A very effective advocate.”
Sayeeda Warsi, Tory community cohesion spokesman: “Token Asian, Muslim woman on the Conservative team. They were always likely to play a stunt like that.”
Here’s a round-up of what Lib Dem bloggers have been saying today about Nick Griffin’s appearance:
- Question Time BNP Bingo (Duncan Stott)
- The BBC are right to have Nick Griffin on Question Time (Mark Thompson)
- Question Time – what’s the worst that could happen tonight? (Jonny Wright)
- BBC Question Time Live Chat – 22nd October 2009 – #bbcqt (Mark Thompson)
- We must take on and challenge the BNP, but Question Time is not the best place (Meral Ece)
- How to combat the Nick Griffin and the BNP (Mark Pack)
- Sticks and stones won’t break the BNP…. (Darrell Goodliffe)
- The BBC helps us understand fascism (Tom Papworth)
- The more publicity Nick Griffin gets the better (Jonathan Calder)
- BNP lose the plot! (Peter Black AM)
