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[winterbadger]

from the Daily Mail's piece on last night's Question Time

But just beyond half-time the programme came to life. This was the result not of a new assault on Nick Griffin, but of a question to Jack Straw.

An audience member named Johnny Lisle demanded: 'Can the recent successes of the BNP be explained by the misguided immigration policies of the Government?'

This was so obviously true that the Justice Minister had to deny it.

Puts me quite in mind of the Rt. Hon. James Hacker, MP, whose first rule of politics was "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied".


(For readers not familiar with the British press, the Daily Mail is a jounal of news and information rather similar in tone, class, and high-minded style to the NY Daily News--or the World Weekly News with a few more celebs and not quite as many alien autopsies. For it to criticise Griffin is akin to Fox News lambasting Rush Limbaugh.)

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[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Her piece today - an "apology" about any offence caused by that article is even better. Especially when she starts getting sniffy about the cyberspace drums beating and "stirring up hatred."

Pity the poor egocentric opinion journalists whose nasty little views can now be scrutnised and questioned by the readers...