Griffin was not a success on Question Time

Nick Griffin's poor performance on Question Time last night came as a surprise to many who expected him to be well-briefed, articulate and "on-message".

In the end, he was none of those things. Perhaps if the programme had been a normal Question Time then he might have fared better but the questions were all about the BNP apart from one about a newspaper report on a dead gay pop star.

Too much time was wasted on asking Griffin if he had said certain things and he either denied them or blustered.

If Neil Kinnock was on the programme, would they have spent much of the time asking him if he had wanted Britain to leave the EU? And they made great play of the fact that Griffin had shared a platform with David Duke of Ku Klux Klan but Ken Livingstone, endorsed by the Labour Party, has shared platforms with IRA terrorists and a Muslim cleric who advocates killing Jews and homosexuals.

It would have been much better to have a normal Question Time but then the liberal elite feared that Griffin would espouse views that would resonate with much of the country i.e. two men kissing being creepy.

Much better to spend the whole programme attacking Griffin.