but pants is right, too many voices made for a diffuse and incoherent opposition going off

at tangents

Very difficult to see how you can combine an attack on views like his with the format of somethign like QT. Normal politicians, everyone knows what they basically stand for and so the fundamentals are a given; that means you don't need a lot of backstory to question them effectively about details of their policies. So the short soundbite stuff of QT, with quick cut and thrust, works well. With the BNP you're in a totally different game, trying to challenge the entire underlying philosophy of who they are and what they do. That's NOT really suited to soundbite television.

Posted By: Old Git on October 23rd 2009 at 11:08:33

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"A non-violent Klu Klux Klan" group. (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Oct 23, 10:20:04
- ... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Oct 23, 10:32:56
- Peaceful racism (n/m) (General Chat) - duke of york, Oct 23, 10:25:04
  - If left to it, he'd have made an even bigger show of himself all on his own (General Chat) - pants, Oct 23, 10:38:58
    - i don't think he would have done. (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 23, 10:46:36
      - Dimbleby would have been able to cut that off rightly and ask him to stay on the point (General Chat) - pants, Oct 23, 10:53:46
        
        but mostly the subject raised was his racist viewpoint and his party's vaguely hidden raci (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 23, 11:02:39
        
        but pants is right, too many voices made for a diffuse and incoherent opposition going off (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 23, 11:08:33
      - Agreed. He had to be confronted with what he says when talking to his core supporters (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 23, 10:49:44
        
        If they do, then questions from the audience need to be fully known before hand (General Chat) - pants, Oct 23, 11:01:45
        
        Politicians shown to be a bit shit. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 23, 11:03:34
        
        haha (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 23, 11:10:30
        
        good question and that's my worry (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 23, 10:57:10
        
        pants is right though that it all descended into posturing, name-calling and indignant (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 23, 10:53:36
        
        It needs a one-to-one interview from Humphries or Paxman for that (General Chat) - duke of york, Oct 23, 11:08:48
        
        Not Humpers, he sounds like an aggressive drunk in a pub half the time (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 23, 11:10:27
        
        or Wossy or Piers Moron (General Chat) - duke of york, Oct 23, 11:14:56
        
        Isn't Evan Davis a bit fey for that job? Want someone with a bit of Grrr. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 23, 11:14:26
        
        I don't agree, I think that grrrr leads to froth and splutter and opportunities to evade (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 23, 11:16:56
        
        "it all descended into posturing, name-calling and indignant spluttering" (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 23, 10:59:38
        
        They should put him on Rogue Traders or whatever it's called with (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 23, 10:59:08
        
        Isn't that DD fault as chairman of such a discussion (General Chat) - Maillot Jaune, Oct 23, 10:58:26
        
        Impossible to moderate something liek that successfully (General Chat) - Old Git, Oct 23, 11:03:47
    - I loved his comparison between white British people (General Chat) - duke of york, Oct 23, 10:45:22
      - "check some reports from some people online" (General Chat) - Yellalee, Oct 23, 10:48:55
- haha (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 23, 10:23:20

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