Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi confirmed for Question Time with BNP leader

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'Most powerful Muslim woman in Britain' to appear alongside Nick Griffin, Jack Straw and Chris Huhne.

The Conservative party has confirmed that Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi will take part as a panellist on next week's controversial edition of BBC1's Question Time, which will feature British National Party leader Nick Griffin.

A spokesman for the Conservative party confirmed that they were expecting Baroness Warsi to take part.

Anglo-American playwright and critic Bonnie Greer is also expected to appear, alongside justice secretary Jack Straw and the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Chris Huhne.

Baroness Warsi, the shadow minister for community cohesion and a former lawyer, became the first Muslim woman to sit on the front bench of a British political party in 2007, aged 36. Earlier this year she was named the most powerful Muslim woman by a panel led by Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

A BBC spokesman refused to confirm its lineup ahead of next Thursday's edition of the political debate show, which will be recorded at the BBC's Television Centre.

Anti-fascist campaigners are planning a protest against Griffin's appearance outside the corporation's headquarters in west London.

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Wiki has this to say about Sayeeda:
Other comments made by Baroness Warsi have also provoked anger amongst gay-rights and anti-fascist campaigners, when she went on record saying "People who back the BNP, criticised for its racist and homophobic agenda, may even have a point. They have some very legitimate views." [10] On 15 October 2009 it was announced Warsi is scheduled to appear on the Question Time edition of 22 October; another panelist is Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party.[11]
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Should be interesting.
 
It's an explosive line-up of panellists, thats for sure. Straw won't back down from taking aim at anyone he feels deserves a dressing down, Griffin will obviously prate on about the urgent need for white racial exclusivity, and Warsi is going to be the very epitome of everything he hates; a woman, a non-white, who happens to be a fully-fledged legislator and front-bench member of an incoming government. This one is going to be off the hinges!
 
Z.AL-Rashid said:
The lies:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8308582.stm

:ooh: what a coincidence. Guess they can't really grill him about the "fact" that he and his ilk are racist thugs :hmm:
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What "lies"? The story is entirely factual.

I suspect you are missing the whole point. The BNP constitution, which excluded non-whites from joining, was rightly ruled illegal. The BNP, therefore, have no alternative but to amend that constitution to remain within the political process. Which, of course, they can happily do in the full knowledge that - precisely because they are racist thugs - no non-whites in their right mind would want to join anyway. In other words the whole thing has been a complete waste of time for everybody except the lawyers who pocketed the taxpayer's cash. Nobody is suggesting the BNP's views have changed in any way, including the BNP.

I certainly have no problems with Griffin appearing on the programme. The more idiotic a set of views are, the more harm the advocate of such views will do to themselves trying to peddle them on national TV.
 
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I will definately be watching this without a doubt. I used to be a BNP supporter myself until I worked and mingled with Asians, however I do know people who are openly BNP supporters yet they're the nicest guys you can meet who will hold the door open for anyone.
Bring this show on!
 
Uthmān;1229844 said:
Interesting piece: The BNP on Question Time is the wrong party on the wrong programme

It's the old debate really about whether it's best to deny them publicity for their views or whether it's best to allow them publicity so that they can expose themselves for the racist thugs they really are.
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^ I agree with the latter! i think its showtime for the BNP and people can see what their veiws really are! Insha'Allah many eyes will be unveiled after this programme.
 
Trumble said:
The BNP, therefore, have no alternative but to amend that constitution to remain within the political process.
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The constitution should reflect the views and core principles of the party and BNP has no intention of changing this hence IT'S ALL A LIE! :raging: **** what's written on paper, the party clearly should not be allowed to exist legally as it never will change their core principles according to their own statements. What a farce.
 
Greetings,

I'm looking forward to this very much, partly because I'm not entirely sure what to expect. It could end up providing us all with some classic TV moments, or it might be a fuss over nothing. The panel may give Griffin a disappointingly easy ride, or it could consist of just an hour of invective. I expect Dimbleby will find it hard to resist chiming in with one of his often masterly interventions. How many questions are they expecting to get through, when the obvious distraction of having a racist being invited to offer his opinions is there?

The big question, though, is obviously how this will affect the BNP's fortunes. I can't see it doing them much good in the long run, but you never know. Lunatic fringes do have a habit of flaring up from time to time.

Peace
 
I have a friend who regulars the BNP website when he is bored... it's always given him a good laugh...
 
Z.AL-Rashid said:
I have a friend who regulars the BNP website when he is bored... it's always given him a good laugh...
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If your friend is white British then careful... it may suck him/her in. The BNP policies on that website are excellent and could/has sucked many people into the party. Just a warning.
 
Blackpool said:
If your friend is white British then careful... it may suck him/her in. The BNP policies on that website are excellent and could/has sucked many people into the party. Just a warning.
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LOL thanks man I needed that :D

He isn't white but he is cauc-asian :D
 
I look forward to watching it, but I don't look forward to it at all.

Why? Because that man Nick Griffin and many BNP members are good at what they do. They take something that would normally be auto looked down on and they twist it to present it differently and make it look like a solid point. And when the majority of your viewers are members that the BNP are targetting, so much of what Nick Griffin will probably hit with them.

I hope that he does get showed for what he is, but I have seen videos of him and he's not an easy target. He won't go there and leave his policies to be screwed at. Everything his party is, he has some explanation for it, and they sound reasonable. Obviously if you go beyond what he's saying, they're all horse poo.

Give this man a massive audience, and he will hit a lot of the audience. He won't be blantantly racist, he'll be subtle. And he'll use concepts like "We need to protect the needs of the majority of this country as more and more of white people fall into poverty" He'll quote unemployment figures. He'll quote things like crime figures in favour of white population. This is all as opposed to going outright and saying only the white people should be cared for. And he'll say it a much better and believable way.

You give him an audience and you'll be left with many people thinking that he does make some sense and that their best interests would be looked after by the BNP.
 

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