Oh dear

[djm4_lj]

I understand the temptation, but I very much doubt that anything Nick Griffin could have said in his press conference could have got him the publicity and made him look good to those who voted for him as being pelted by eggs outside Westminster. Doing this just makes him look like a martyr.

As a Liberal, I disapprove of treating any democratically elected representative this way, but even if you don't, I challenge you to convince me that this sort of protest doesn't just play straight into the BNP's hands. They want to be seen in the media being attacked and silenced - a lot of their core support are people who feel that they have no voice, so anything that looks as though this is a deliberate conspiracy to silence them will ring true.

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[vampwillow]

I concur. One PM this evening was one of the organisers of the egg-throwing who kept not seeing the point made by Eddie Mair that he had been *elected* no matter how abominable he is. She was saying things like "but he doesn't have a majority of supporters" oblivious to the fact that Labour, etc. didn't get above the 50%-of-electorate either.

It reminds me in many ways of the treatment of Sinn Fein with the "his words are spoken by an actor" farce.

And, of course, because it is a fixed parliament, we have five years of this ...