Griffin may appear on BBC Question Time
‘The BBC has confirmed it may invite British National Party leader Nick Griffin to appear on a future edition of the Question Time programme.
Although the BBC has yet to issue a formal invitation, the corporation is preparing to ask Griffin – which he is believed to welcome - to join the panel show and is already consulting other parties about appearing with him.
The BBC says it is obliged to treat all legal political parties registered with the Electoral Commission with due impartiality. “Our audiences – and the electorate – will make up their own minds about the different policies offered by elected politicians”.
A Labour party spokesman said the BBC’s decision had forced it to review its position of never sharing a platform with the BNP, while the Conservatives said they would treat Griffin’s appearance on Question Time like “any other programme” and would ensure a senior Tory was present to counter his arguments.
“We have seen the BNP do well in areas where people haven’t been prepared to tackle them and now they are elected we have got to face up to that reality,” said a Conservative spokesman.
UAF have said it will stage a demonstration outside Broadcasting House this week to protest against the BBC’s decision.
However uncomfortable some may be with the sight of the BNP on programmes like Question Time, the BNP are, nonetheless, an elected, legitimate political party and so Nothing British feels the BBC’s decision was inevitable. We do not support the BNP but we have to accept that one million people have allowed them into the democratic political system – the BBC cannot dismiss this.
We also believe, as an arena, Question Time will provide a perfect opportunity to expose the BNP’s racist core beliefs and will intellectually undermine them as a party infront of the wider British public. If we don’t want the BNP in British politics, we must address the concerns of the very people who are thinking of voting for the BNP at the next election.
BNP may appear on Question Time – BBC
Tags: Labour, Nick Griffin, Question Time
let him on and watch him squirm
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I sincerely hope that he gets made out to be the idiot and bigot that he really is.
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I can’t wait; It will be a blood bath. It always is which is why there is a no platform policy for the BNP. Sunny Hundal has even admitted that the BNP cannot be defeated with rational arguments.
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I can’t wait,i’ve already tried to book the tickets for Question Time,Go on Nick Griffin,show the Marxists about true patriotism,When in power Nick, bring the treason act in to force and watch the treacherous,treasonous slime cower.Go BNP.
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