Most white people, those who were prepared to give Griffin a hearing, will have seen that the media demonising of this man Griffin was false. In that regard there will be votes in it for him.
And that Bonnie Greer...how she's running the British museum has to be a joke. Kind of sums up what's wrong with this country that we choose to import a former militant black American female, with no serious academic background, to control something as important to the public.
This is an odd thing to take from tonight's show. Leaving aside the questionable insinuations within your opening phrase "most white people", I fail to see how the supposed demonisation was in any way shown to be false. Griffin's defence of this "demonisation" was poor; his piece about misquotations was poorly constructed and fell away at the first challenge. The most poignant criticism, or "demonisation" as you put it, has been about his holocaust denial. He made a total arse of that aswell, effectively saying "I thought that before but I dinnae anymore, it's fine".
Overall, it was a fairly unsurprising performance from him. Early on he took a shredding, but he was allowed ground on which he was able to reel out his rhetoric as he would have hoped, on his terms, largely thanks to Straw's ineptitude.
He was revelling in the "demonisation"; laughing away and clearly under the delusion that he is charismatic. In reality, he came across, first and foremost, as an amateur. This though, as has been mentioned earlier in the thread, may be to his benefit: he certainly didn't come across as a stuffy politician as for example Straw did, and so to some may appear as a breath of fresh air. A shrewd policy on his part, perhaps. More likely just coincidence though, as from what we have seen tonight he's not the most tactile of individuals.
However, EasterToad, back to the "most white people" bit. What do you mean by this? By differentiating society into "most white people" and, presumably, "others", you tread a very fine line and one not too dissimilar to that by which the BNP stand. Your wee piece about Greer on the grounds of her race serves only to reinforce this highly questionable stance. I can understand the legitimacy concerning debates about immigration, however arguments with a heavy emphasis on race and ethnicity are a very different matter. This is where Griffin and the BNP ultimately lose out on any legitimacy gained through their immigration arguments, and your echoing of such racial arguments with the terms you so freely use in your post serves to undermine any serious points you attempt to make.