Question Time: Griffin vs Straw is a draw says The Times
THE Times has rated Nick Griffin’s performance on Question Time as good as that of the Justice Minister Jack Straw who has the reputation as one of the best debaters in the House of Commons.
Sam Coates, the newspaper’s chief political correspondent gave the British National Party chairman 7 out of 10 and said that he had achieved his game plan of acknowledging that “the elite” hates him, denying his extremism and concentrating on his key message of standing up for the British.
Coates said Nick was a vote winner because he looked sincere when saying that journalists deliberately misquoted him to make him look like “a monster”
He even acknowledged that Nick was a crowd pleaser when he said: “You people [pointing at Mr Straw] wouldn’t even let us have our name [the English] on the census form”
In summary, The Times correspondence said: “Despite a couple of early wobbles, he got his message across in an hour of primetime TV, and by portraying himself as hated, made himself look like a victim of the establishment.
Jack Straw got the same score but was criticised for claiming that Labour had immigration under control and that it wasn’t the immigration issue that was the reason behind people in the North West voting for the British National Party.
