Nick Griffin's body language

Nobody likes to watch another human being squirm.....unless it's Nick Griffin, that is.

I imagine many of us will have felt the BBC's decision to invite him on to Question Time was vindicated simply because we all got the chance to check him out properly - not just listening to his extremist views but also to watch how he presented himself and how comfortable or uncomfortable he appeared whilst voicing them. I was fascinated by his body language: his use of the smile to cover embarrassment, even when it seemed most inappropriate and his use of laughter to deflect attention away from the seriousness of some of the remarks - both seemed to be studied tactics he's developed to try to wrap up some of the more outrageous things he says and make him appear soft and cuddly while he says them.

But it didn't work for me; instead these feeble attempts at appearing human only made him more slippery. And by the end of the programme, he was looking truly uncomfortable. Interesting that most of his discomfort seemed to surface whilst he was defending his position on gay rights (or rather his view that there shouldn't be any). At this point he really did look as if he wished he were somewhere else. I wonder what that really says about him?