From Sunday Herald, 16/6/13

I don't know about the Scottish cringe, but I found Thursday's Edinburgh Question Time toe-curling. It was a nightmare version of the referendum campaign, complete with an omni-rant from George Galloway, the Respect MP, forming a devil's alliance with the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage - a demented glove-puppet - to claim, mendaciously, that the latter had been the victim of ugly anti-English behaviour when he last appeared in Scotland.   

I felt some sympathy for the journalist Lesley Riddoch, trying confusedly to make a moderate non-party case for voting Yes against those two unionist foghorns. The SNP Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, made the cardinal error of attacking the programme for bias. This never works because it looks like an attack on David Dimbleby, who is of course a national institution. Robertson may have had a case since he was outnumbered three to one, but in these situations you just have to suck it up because whingeing antagonises viewers.

Having worked on BBC programmes like Question Time I'm sure there was no political bias intended by the producers. It doesn't work that way. They just wanted a good old confrontation, a rammy, and because it was Scotland they knew they could get away with it. If it had been Question Time the week before, say, the Eastleigh by-election in Hampshire, rather than Donside in Aberdeen, they wouldn't have dared pack the panel with eccentrics and nationalists representing constituencies in another country.

But better get used to this, because I suspect the QT spat is what next year's referendum campaign will be like, only on a larger scale. The SNP are wrong to assume that they will get favourable treatment from the broadcasters in 2014. The 'story' of the referendum will be nationalists trying to break up Britain and setting Scot against English. We have seen nothing yet.

Keep the BNP white.

Is nothing sacred?  Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party and Question Time celebrity, says he intends to change the party constitution to allow non-white members. Can nothing stop this tide of political correctness?   Spics, Dagos and Wops.  Asians, Chinese Blacks.  In the BNP!   

They.ll be marching along in their DMs and bomber jackets and, er, dreadlocks, turbans and afros.  Waving Nazi flags and giving Hitler salutes.  “Yay mon! Adolf - me is you bitch”.  DJs and rappers will start getting their heads shaved into swastikas and driving old Mercedes convertibles instead of Lamborghini Murcielagos. 

  It used to be that BNP membership was limited to “indigenous caucasians”.  Presumably English whites, because the BNP didn’t want to be overrun with gypsies, Poles, Jews and the rest just because they weren’t black. The interesting question now arises over whether, once it throws open its doors to blacks, the British National Party will still be allowed to exclude white races they don’t like -  maybe Welsh, Irish, Scots. Well, there are limits. 

   But it adds an entirely new dimension to the immigration debate.    I mean, those foreigners: they come over here, take over our jobs, take over our fascist parties.  It’s a diabolical liberty mate.  Why can’t they just be racists in their own countries where they belong?   They’ll be having men in the Women’s Institute next, or sane people in the Conservative party.  Labour will be inviting people to join who don’t fiddle their expenses. 

  Just imagine what meetings of the BNP are going to be like in future.  “It’s not that we hate foreigners and black people, it’s just that we don’t want them to come here, except of course for you brother Winston and, ere, Gurgit oh and  Xangian”.  Nick Griffin will be reduced to delivering speeches saying that the purity of the British race, the maintenance of our national identity, the supremacy of our white culture mean that we have to accept, er, multiculturalism as a necessary first step.  

 Actually, come to think of it, multiculturalism will become impossible.  All those exclusive organisations representing various cultures and ethnic minorities will have to start including members of the BNP or fall foul of equality legislation. 

  Once the BNP goes multiracial, we might have to start seeing them as an oppressed minority - shunned from the classroom, banned from the Notting Hill Carnival, cruelly and unjustly excluded from Liberal Democrat Party Conferences.  What if they start demanding to be represented by the Equalities Commission?   Demanding equal treatment in Synagogues? I mean, I’m as liberal as the next man, but I really don’t want any members of the BNP moving in next door.  Just think of the property values.