October 22, 2009 Griffin versus Warsi
As every politically minded person in the country is aware, Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, is today going to speak on Question Time. This has, understandably, caused quite a furore among politicians and the press. Many are waking up to the realisation that, with a million votes, two MEPs and nearly 50 councillors, the BNP are becoming a very real force in our country’s politics.
The best part of the story, in my opinion, is that Griffin will be on the panel with Muslim Conservative Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Shadow Community Cohesion Minister. It will be incredibly interesting to see how Griffin handles the question of whether she is less English than him, as she is a peer of the realm, whereas he is a convicted criminal, and both of her grandfathers fought for Britain during the Second World War. The deputy leader of the BNP, Simon Darby, said of Warsi: ‘[she is] probably towards the bottom of the list of people who could and indeed should be deciding who is and is not British’ and went on to refer to the British-born peer as a ‘malleable Pakistani’.
Warsi is the only female Muslim Conservative frontbencher, and is therefore a good choice to contrast with the Islamophobic, male-dominated world of the BNP. We must also applaud her for sharing a stage with a man who said of her religion: ‘This wicked, vicious faith has expanded from a handful of cranky lunatics about 1,300 years ago, to it’s now sweeping country after country before it, all over the world.’ Let the fireworks begin!
Tags: BNP, Nick Griffin, Question Time, Sayeeda Warsi
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