What you need to ask yourself is whether the BNP has lost a single vote since Question Time went off the air yesterday evening? The answer is probably not.
Everything played right into his hands. Not only did every insult from the hostile crowd and panel consolidate his support by allow him to portray himself as someone being thrown to the lions, he was asked a series of questions which the average ex-mainstream party voter who is now voting for the BNP could not care less about. Financial crisis, unemployment or MP expenses anyone? No. The Holocaust, the KKK and hanging British generals (WTF). This may gain traction in a multicultural and prosperous city like London, but certainly not in the places where he is actually getting votes.
Why was he not asked how he actually plans to solve the problems which he uses to drum up support?
Griffin is nowhere near having any of the oratory polish of a Le Pen (some of his answers were frankly ridiculous and someone like Paxman would destroy him easily), but the more he is vilified, the more he will be able to cry foul and strike a chord with disenfranchised voters by continuing to rail against the "establishment".
October 23, 2009
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