Daniel Davies takes on the “the usual crowd of wowsers and pursed-lip good-government types” to explain why egging Nick Griffin was not just a good idea, but necessary:
And in this particular case, the egging itself is actually a very important speech act and a significant contribution to our national debate. Based on the fact that they got two MEPs elected, non-white British citizens might justifiably be looking with suspicion at their white neighbours today, thinking that a significant proportion of us were secretly harbouring fascist sympathies. In fact this isn’t true; the absolute number of BNP votes was slightly down on 2004, and their electoral success was purely an artefact of overall low turnout. It’s therefore an important point to be made, to our own population and to the world’s watching media, that Nick Griffin isn’t in fact a newly popular and influential political figure; he’s a widely reviled creep who not only doesn’t lead a phalanx of jackbooted supporters, but actually can’t even set up for a TV interview without being pelted with eggs. The voice of the British populace does not shout “Hail Griffin!â€, it shouts, “Oi Fatty, cop this! [splat]â€. And the only efficient and credible way to demonstrate to the world that Griffin is regarded as an eggworthy disgrace, is to actually and repeatedly pelt him with eggs.
If only BBC’s PM programme had had Davies on, instead of the flood of BNP sockpuppets insisting they had no love for the party until the egg throwing made them rethink their position and that the real intolerance came from the anti-fascists.