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Prime Time.
Oct. 21st, 2009 09:49 amRoderick Griffin, leader of the the Brownshorts National Party, is to appear on the BBC's Question Time tomorrow night. Some people feel that he and his supporters should be denied any public fora, despite the undeniable fact that they did poll in excess of one million votes (6.2% of the vote) in the recent European Elections, and now have elected representatives squatting like toads in Brussels.
Personally, I feel that they should be allowed into public debate; they've got as many elected representatives from this country in Brussels as the Greens or the SNP, and Alex Salmonds' unappealing features are barely ever off our screens.
By marginalising them they can cast themselves as martyrs; it is only with free, open debate that imbecility and unfitness for power can be publicly demonstrated.
But what do you think?
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Personally, I feel that they should be allowed into public debate; they've got as many elected representatives from this country in Brussels as the Greens or the SNP, and Alex Salmonds' unappealing features are barely ever off our screens.
By marginalising them they can cast themselves as martyrs; it is only with free, open debate that imbecility and unfitness for power can be publicly demonstrated.
But what do you think?
[Poll #1474164]
