Big news over here at the moment, and this kinda ties into the UK Immigration thread.

Thoughts? I watched it and it was fucking hilarious watching that arsehole squirm. They didn't quite expose him for everything he is, but he came across as a tool nonetheless (as predicted).

The non-violent KKK argument was simply loltastic for want of a better word.

Explanation for all you dirty dirty foreigners: The British National Party (BNP) is a racist, fascist organisation gaining some mild support over here at the moment by blaming all our problems on immigration. Essentially they want a Britain where the "indigenous people" (y'know, because we're pure bred) are put first - until very recently their membership criteria specifically stated that only white Caucasians are allowed in (this was declared racially discriminatory a couple of months back by the UK courts and the BNP have had to amend it). They propagate "islamophobia", racism and homophobia (to name a few), and famously deny the holocaust ever happened. Then they dare to use the image of Winston Churchill in their propaganda.

Question Time is a BBC program in which a panel of politicians and intellectuals answer questions based on current affairs.

That's weird... he's anti-Islam AND denies that the holocaust ever happened?

i think politics at the minute is hilarious!
now because of the recession they're looking into the government spending and these politicians are chrging items such a dog food and cleaning equipment to the government account.. it us taxpayers are paying for that stuff!!

one of my favourite stories from irish politics at the minute is Mr John gormley.. he's the leader of the green party (they're all mad about recycling etc|) he was going to a meeting in london but to cut his "carbon emmissions" he got a ferry to wales... but then he didnt get a train he hired a private limo (paid for by the tax payer) and drove theere!!
another irish politician who was also attending the meeting hired a limo to drive him from one terminal in londonn airport to the other|!!!

irish politicians are complete morons!! the unemployment rate here is 12.8% and rising rapidly!!!
every day its more cut backs and people loosing their jobs all because of pure greed!!

http://blogs.ballyfermot.ie/philiphickey/files/2008/12/brian_cowen1.jpg

This is the guy that runs ireland... enought said like....

I just watched this on the iplayer, and it was hilarious and tragic at the same time. Adolf Griffin would have you believe that he is a legitimate politician, at the head of a legitimate political party. Anybody who has seen last night's Question Time would have seen through this instantly. He was shown to be little more than an undeducated idiot who focusses more on rumour, conjecture and fantasy than he does on real policies. I read today that he compared his treatment on Question Time to being set upon by a lynch mob (I read this here.). This is the same Nick Griffin who has been pictured with, and associates with, prominent members of the Ku Klux Klan. I'd say to him that if he wants to know what a lynch mob actually feels like, he might examine some of the activities ( and their consequences) of the Klan a little closer before making such a crass comparison. Reasoned debate, a debate which he opened himself up to willingly, and one which he must surely, surely have known the direction of before he even sat down for filming is, I think it's safe to assume, nothing like being set upon by a lynch mob. Legitmiate politicians would welcome such debates. Racist Nazi cunts don't, apparently.

I've got to be honest - if it wasn't for the fact that he's such a complete CUNT, I'd have had issues with the way the program was handled. Pretty much the entire discussion was centred on him and in many situations he wasn't given any time to reply to allegations made against him, he was simply attacked and made to look like a fool.

But, at the end of the day, he got everything he deserved (and had it been a longer show, I don't doubt that he would have had a whole lot more on his plate). He's a shit stirring moron and describing foreign culture as a "genocide" for the British people is dispicable and pathetic.

You're right though - he let himself in for this and describing the show as a "lynch mob" is laughable considering what he was saying.

Also: "militant homosexuals" rofl

Could somebody explain to me what the European parliment is? Is it just the European Union's parliment, or is it something different. Because I've heard that his party has had 2 people elected as MEP's which blows my mind.

One in my area of the country. The Hull and Humber region has a lot of idiots though, so it didn't surprise me.

The European Parliament makes European Law for the European Union, and it is the highest legislative body within the EU. So yeah, the EP is the parliament for the EU.

Essentially, within the EU, European Law is above all other and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) enforces that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_European_Parliament_for_the_United_Kingdom_2009%E2%80%932014

This is a list of the UK MEPs for the current session, 2009-14. Nick Griffin has one of the 72 (I think) seats on that list and he's got a colleague in another - it IS shocking that he's managed to do that well but there's an awful lot of UKIP in there too (UK Independence Party - they used to be led by a chat show host lolz).

But then, there's a lot of idiots in the general public and some people buy Nick Griffin's and the like's bullshit.

/ramble ramble

All my knowledge of the EU comes from wikipedia and short conversations with a Spanish guy, but I've gleamed that European Parliament, though its laws are above members' laws, focuses nearly entirely on economics and the countries are still highly sovereign. Truth in this?

Yeah that's pretty much correct - the EU encompasses all manner of subjects when it comes to lawmaking but does focus on economic matters (rather than say, criminal).

Insofar as sovereignty is concerned, for the most part you're right - each nation preserves it's own sovereign nature to an extent. It's the subject of a lot of academic jurisprudential debate, much of which is way over my head.