Friday, 23 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

The real threat of immigration
This is not just a 'tabloid issue'. We must tackle immigration's effect on our population, or risk leaving the field to extremists
Guardian (23-Oct-2009)

Question Time was 'win-win situation' for BNP
The political event which dominated the week's headlines and divided public opinion more than any other in recent times finally took place last...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (23-Oct-2009)

Repugnant, slippery and exposed as an empty vessel
As an evening, it was absurdly, grotesquely British. A rather tired old TV current affairs programme found its audience trebled by the mere introduction of a pudgy middle-aged racist who doubts whether Hitler killed six million...
Daily Mail (23-Oct-2009)

BNP's Nick Griffin under fire on BBC's Question Time
"If you all attack on different fronts we'll never get anywhere," said David Dimbleby towards the end of the most-watched edition of Question Time for many...
Belfast Telegraph (23-Oct-2009)

Can the BNP be part of the democratic debate?
As terrifying as it may be, the gained seats in the recent European parliamentary elections. Those like need to accept this (, 20 October). The BNP, sadly, are an active part of our democracy, and the was right to invite on to Question...
Guardian.co.uk (23-Oct-2009)

Was the BBC right to have Nick Griffin on Question Time?
John Kampfner Nick Griffin received the oxygen of publicity he craved, but at the end of a nation?s ordeal democracy emerged intact. Unlike the protests outside Television Centre, the Question Time audience expressed its loathing of the BNP leader through a succession of passionate but informed and measured..
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (23-Oct-2009)

The bare-faced BBC
Talk about bare-faced hypocrisy. Amidst the furore over the BBC's decision to invite Nick Griffin on to Question Time, its director general, Mark Thompson, claims that he had no choice because of the Corporation's 'central principle of political impartiality'.
Daily Mail (23-Oct-2009)

GRIFFIN AND HIS HIDEOUS BNP MUST BE DEFEATED
THIS IS a dangerous and shameful moment for British democracy. A fascist party has been allowed to inveigle its way into the political mainstream. If it is not stopped in its tracks and driven back into the sewer from which it has emerged the vile BNP will push its warped agenda of racial purity to the limit.
Daily Express (23-Oct-2009)

The BBC gave Griffin the oxygen of publicity. He choked
Tom Sutcliffe on Nick Griffins Question Time...
The Independent (23-Oct-2009)

Embarrassed Home Office blocks day off for staff sports day
The Home Office has moved its winter sports day from a working day to the weekend after an outcry over wasted taxpayers money. Officials had been looking forward to displaying their athletic prowess on Thursday, November...
Times Online (22-Oct-2009)

Outrage as BBC elevates far-right leader to national stage
CNN LONDON, England (CNN) -- Millions of Britons will be watching tonight as the nation's public broadcaster gives the controversial leader of a far-right party his first appearance on prime time political...
CNN International (22-Oct-2009)

Opinion: BNP on Question Time
IS it right to have BNP on Question Time? No: Martin Miller, chair of Manchester City Hope not Hate THE fierce debate about Nick Griffin's appearance on BBC's Question Time has focussed on "freedom of speech"...
Manchester Evening News (22-Oct-2009)

Nick Griffin follows Le Pen's lead
Hoping to 'expose' the BNP leader on Question Time only repeats the mistake France made with the Front...
Guardian.co.uk (22-Oct-2009)

Who decides who enters the UK? EU to 'harmonise' asylum system
Britain could be forced to take in more refugees under EU plans to 'harmonise' the asylum seeker system. A universal criteria for accepting asylum claims could see the UK lose the ability to decide who enters the country - the leader of the Conservative MEP group, Tim Kirkhope, said Britain "stands to loose.
The London Daily News (22-Oct-2009)

The clash of uncivilisations
The BNP are using the publics real fear of Islamism to attract support for their racist movement, says Melanie Phillips. If the political class wants to take on Griffin, it must first join the fight against Islamofascism The frenzy over the participation of BNP leader Nick Griffin on Question Time this...
The Spectator (22-Oct-2009)

IMMIGRATION TO PUSH BRITISH POPULATION TO MORE THAN 70M
BRITAINS population is to soar by an extra 4.3 million people over the next decade, official Government statistics predicted...
Daily Express (22-Oct-2009)

Playing into the hands of racists
The implications of the fastest population growth in our history are truly alarming. This isn't about race. It's a question of sheer numbers. For these overcrowded islands cannot absorb an extra 10million inhabitants over the next 24 years - more than two-thirds of them first-generation immigrants and their.
Daily Mail (22-Oct-2009)

SIR ANDREW GREEN: We must halt this conspiracy of silence over our immigration crisis
The figures on population trends mark a watershed in the debate on immigration. They are the last estimates that will be made public before the election - and they make grim...
Daily Mail (22-Oct-2009)

BNP BIGOT'S RING OF STEEL
RIOT police are on standby over fears that BNP leader Nick Griffin s Question Time debut tonight will spark mob violence. BBC chiefs plan to switch filming to a secret location at the last minute if fighting breaks...
Daily Star (22-Oct-2009)

BBC 'will lose trust for giving airtime to BNP'
Radio presenter Rosen says BBC will relish the ratings as Hain fails in bid to have Griffin's appearance...
The Independent (22-Oct-2009)