Bigots That go Bump in the Night

Well, the dust has settled on Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time, leaving most of us wondering what the point of it all was. What did we learn, other than what we already knew, that Griffin is a bigot who can't put together a coherent argument and tries instead to crudely play the patriotism card, invoking images of Spitfires, plucky British Tommys fighting for freedom against those nasty foreigners and good old white working class communities being over run by (non-white) immigrants. Whilst I don't dispute the fact that as the BNP has elected representatives in the European Parliament (something the UK's electorate should be thoroughly ashamed of), the BBC has no choice but to allow them air time along with other political parties, I can't help but feel that a confrontational format like Question Time wasn't the best forum to feature them on. With just about everybody - the host, audience and other panel members - clearly hostile to Griffin, it simply allowed him to present himself as the victim, harassed by bullies.

So what can we do to ensure the bigoted bastard is demonized by the public? Maybe someone could launch a Nick Griffin Halloween mask. Let's face it, if the sight of his evil face leering at you when you open the door to trick-or-treaters doesn't put the fear of God into you, then nothing will. You could carve pumpkins into the image of his head (the resemblance is already there), and stick them outside your house with candles in to try and frighten children. After all, fair's fair - for years now people have been dressing up as Abu Hamza and Osama bin Laden at Halloween, and Nick Griffin and his poisonous policies is surely as big a threat to civil society as either of those two? We need to turn Griffin into a bogey man to scare small children with - "Be good or the BNP man will come and throw you into a detention centre for illegal immigrants". Of course, there's always the danger that you'll get some idiots donning their Nick Griffin Halloween masks to try and terrorise their Muslim neighbours, knocking on the door and asking "Lynching or deportation?". But frankly, I think it is well worth the risk if we can restore Griffin and the BNP to their rightful place as unspeakable horrors that no sane person would want visited upon them.