Question Time

Ofcourse everyone has been talking about last week's Panorama and Question Time. Think they've been the most talked about topics all week. There's been so much debate over whether the BBC should have ket Nick Griffin on Question Time but really there are problems either way. He's the leader of a minor political party that has two members elected to the European Parliament and the question around all this must revolve round whether people would vote for the BNP as a fascist organization. I don't know how they ran their election campaign so I can't comment on it.

Did their supporters know, for instance, that the BNP restricted it's membership along ethnic lines.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6004182/BNP-faces-legal-action-over-membership-and-constitution.html

Something that has been found to breach The Race Relations Act.

Politicians had been talking about the Far Right and the question is whether the political face of the FR .. the BNP should be invited onto a programme such as Question Time to answer questions put by the audience to a mixed panrl of people.

The BNP have two seats in the European Parliament and it would have seemed strange if they were never on the programme while, say, members of other small political parties The Green Party and Respect were. Can you imagine the eventual problems that would cause when the BNP pointed it out.

The day after the press seemed pretty united in the opinion that the programme hadn't done the BNP any good but some backtracked a bit when Nick Griffin filed a complaint against the BBC.

It is so difficult to know just what the programme altered. The people I know didn't like Nick Griffin before the show and didn't like him afterwards so no change there.