I've not got time to read the full thread, so I apologise if this has already been covered.

I am by no means a BNP sympathiser, AT ALL, but I feel the BBC couldn't have handled last night any worse than they did!!

A fair "debate" (which everyone is entitled to in the UK) is NOT given when you have the followingsome[/i people to join him and his obnoxious campaign.

What should have happened is a fair debate with stringent "one at a time" questions for both arguments, who is right and who is wrong is no issue in this discussion as, as we live in a free speech society and debate is the life blood of a democracy FFS. If Abu Hamza gets free speech, then so does Griffin (unfortunately true, but he's allowed his say, even if it does make him look like a numpty).

They should have avoided the obvious race argument or got it over and done with and then pushed him on real issues, such as the post office dispute, the NHS, schools, our armed forces being places they shouldn't be; not just something to get his usual reply of "my granddad was in WWII argument", to that statement someone should have said "Mr Griffin, if I remember correctly, it was called World War 2, not UK War 2, everyone was there and not just your flaming granddad or just the UK."

He's already using last nights staged witch hunt as an "oh, woe is me" campaign!!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8322322.stm

Well done BBC, you thought that through well didn't you?!

(Just my opinion)

I've not got time to read the full thread, so I apologise if this has already been covered.

I am by no means a BNP sympathiser, AT ALL, but I feel the BBC couldn't have handled last night any worse than they did!!

A fair "debate" (which everyone is entitled to in the UK) is NOT given when you have the followingsome[/i people to join him and his obnoxious campaign.

What should have happened is a fair debate with stringent "one at a time" questions for both arguments, who is right and who is wrong is no issue in this discussion as, as we live in a free speech society and debate is the life blood of a democracy FFS. If Abu Hamza gets free speech, then so does Griffin (unfortunately true, but he's allowed his say, even if it does make him look like a numpty).

They should have avoided the obvious race argument or got it over and done with and then pushed him on real issues, such as the post office dispute, the NHS, schools, our armed forces being places they shouldn't be; not just something to get his usual reply of "my granddad was in WWII argument", to that statement someone should have said "Mr Griffin, if I remember correctly, it was called World War 2, not UK War 2, everyone was there and not just your flaming granddad or just the UK."

He's already using last nights staged witch hunt as an "oh, woe is me" campaign!!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8322322.stm

Well done BBC, you thought that through well didn't you?!

(Just my opinion)