The BNP's Nick Griffin on Question Time, what are your thoughts?

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MMH, surely you aren't laying the responsilibilty for your two-year-old's attack at DP's feet?

It was very difficult to tell how Griffin came accross. It was a witch hunt from the start, and he rarely got a chance to air a full opinion. Unfortunate, since I believe if he had expanded, he would have lost followers, rather than gained sympathisers.

Dimbleby was not equal. He would never have spoken to the other panellists in the same way. Which only goes to gain sympathisers - a depressing prospect.

Witch hunt is wrong - it was a preparation of soundbites from the start.

Ugh! Alan Davies has such awful hair!

Actually, as a non-Labour voting anti-Conservative woolly liberal voter, I was quite scared tonight. I thought Baroness Warsi came across very well. Except that I got the impression she was doing the politico's two-step around the question on civil partnerships.

'He came across well'??!!

You have seriously misjugded that appearance.

It was a disaster for him and the BNP.

Haha he really did look a fool.Perfect.He was out of his depth with no solid basis to any of his 'policies'.I was disappointed no one questioned him on other bnp policies like economics or education/health and really showed him up.really anyone who aligns themself to a party with no real manifesto is very stupid indeed

Dreams, I have asked dp to say how she feels about the fact that the BNP's success leads to attacks on non-whites, including the tit who picked on my son. She's avoided saying how she feels about it - and avoided so by saying she hasn't voted for them.

Agree about Dimbleby's partisan approach to NG. But it doesn't depress me !

Agree, MMH. Baroness Warsi was very good indeed - she treated it like Question Time, and not Jeremy Kyle.

And that of course is the point. The people who vote for him saw a corrupt Muslim, Labour fool, irrelevant LD and Black woman who seemed to be mothering him at several stages and then their man stand up to them all. Call that a grilling? I am from the area where the first bnp councillor was elected on the Isle of Dogs years ago. Humiliation by middle class politicians didn't work then & won't work now. He said all he wanted to with his aboriginal speech.

I wish I'd spotted his car & stopped him earlier.

He said something about the BNP being a party that promotes equality for women.

Desperately wish I'd been in the audience to blow that lie out of the water.

ooo no dreams - ive seen dimbleby shut other panelists up in a trice!

i think he was treated exactly as he should have been. he was asked to expand on his views and comment on fact. its fact that he has been a holocaust denier, its fact that he shares a stage with the klu klux klan. its right he should be made to explain this imo., its even better than he couldnt.

he is a twat. plain and simple. and hopefully most people will realise it - ive got a thread on here cos most of the people i work with support the BNP...hope this shakes their faith.

monkeysmama, Bonnie Greer was great when (with the backing of her position as Chair of the British Library) she said the historical basis of his policy was utter hogwash.

MMH...it's late..i'm tired..

i have spent too much of my life on this thread....i have been open and honest..i could have kept my mouth shut and pretended i vote for the green party....i would have chatted with you while supporting the BNP....you would never have known...

just because i have said i will vote for them does not mean i have to comment on the personal circumstances of individual posters...

With that ability to avoid a straightforward question (asked twice), daftpunk, you should be a politician. Think of joining the bnp?

Jesus Vicar!? Where do you live & what job do you do?!

Yes, he's a twat, and what he represents is breathtaking in the worst sense, but Dimbleby should have treated him equally. Isn't that the whole point? Equality?

take heart people. how many people on this thread actually support the BNP? i make that one...

MMH....there are attacks on white people by blacks and asians....what do you think about that..?

'It was very difficult to tell how Griffin came accross. It was a witch hunt from the start, and he rarely got a chance to air a full opinion. Unfortunate, since I believe if he had expanded, he would have lost followers, rather than gained sympathisers'.

Exactly DIB, hence why I earlier said that he came across well

You are always tired or have somewhere to go when you have no defense just as the more insulting you are the bigger the u turn and poor me the next day.A bit like the BNP predictable but empty headed........

It did interest me that the vast majority of airtime was taken up by the BNP and what their views are. I am glad that that was the case; it needed to be done as there is such controversy over their existence.

Can someone explain the circumstances that make them an 'illegal' party? I don't understand why politicians are saying this about them - surely if they're illegal the long arm of the law can slap them down?

dp - you answer my question first.

How many DP? Exactly? And what is the motivation for those attacks, as identified in the police reports?

monekysmama...honestly ive been in the job a week and im pissed off.

dreams i thought he did treat him equally. do you normally watch question time??