Are you watching Question Time tonight ?.

[Simon Morgan]

No no and thrice no. I get so unbelievably sick of this smartarse attitude towards primitive and controversial views. For the record, I'm obviously not an advocate of the BNP, but why take so much notice of them if they clearly don't pose a threat to anyone?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Required viewing.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Yes, but then I watch it anyway.

likewise.

 

[Steve Foster]

Highlights are on sky news at the mo

 

[Crawley 'Gull]

Just seen clips on skynews

Needless to say he doesn't come across very well.

 

[blue'n'white]

I normally watch it anyway but tonight's show should be extra interesting !!

 

[clapham_gull]

It's the only programme I bother to watch week in week out, so yes.

Radio Four in the morning and Question Time are essential viewing/listening.

I'm also quite partial to the programme afterwards as well.

 

[The Spanish]

it is going to go some to top the bigamist woman programme on now on c4. f***ing hell thats funny.

 

[Garage_Doors]

BNP Leader Griffin Gets 'Rough Ride' On TV

Mark Langford, Sky News Online
BNP leader Nick Griffin got a "rough ride" on BBC's Question Time after violent protests beforehand left three police injured.

Griffin sparked controversy by telling the audience that Britain's white population were equivalent to the "Aborigines".

Journalists sitting in the studio said that much of what the BNP leader said was "mocked" by the audience and the panelists.

The Metropolitan Police said the officers had been hurt during the clashes outside BBC Television Centre in west London.

Two suffered minor injuries and the third was treated by paramedics for head injuries.

Police said three people had been arrested during the clashes.


More than 500 people were involved in the demonstration outside the BBC building in White City ahead of the filming of Question Time, due to be screened tonight at 10.35pm.

About 25 protesters beat BBC security to gain entry to the reception area of the building.

Mr Griffin avoided the protesters by getting in to the building through a side entrance as opposition to his controversial appearance on the programme panel turned violent.

Mr Griffin described the protesters as "yobs" who were attacking his right to free speech.

"These people have been bussed in from around the country by groups funded by Labour councils. It's disgraceful," he said.


The BNP leader arrived in the studio to muted applause but there were boos in the audience as he was announced on the panel.

He left the building without trouble shortly after 8.30pm.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw, Tory peer Baroness Warsi, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne and writer Bonnie Greer are also on the programme panel.

Audience members taking part in the programme were escorted in through the front entrance by police officers after showing their passports.

Traffic on Wood Lane ground to a halt as the protesters marched down the road ahead of filming of the programme.

I think this whole extravaganza has helped the BNP, it’s given them free PR, it’s made them look like victims, it has made them look respectable.

Mehdi Hussan, senior editor at the New Statesman

As the crowd waited for the arrival of Mr Griffin, protesters chanted: "We're black, white, Asian and Jew, BBC shame on you", and "we won't let Nick Griffin through".

A police helicopter circled overhead as officers guarded the front entrance.

When BBC security guards opened a gate to let a car into the front car park, dozens of protesters jumped over the barrier and ran towards the building.

Lukas Keudic, 20, a student at King's College London, was one of those who managed to get to the doors of the studio where the controversial debate was being held.


"We were in the main reception next to Piers Morgan when about 30 police officers turned up," he said.

"There were about 10 to 20 of us and we were just standing there chanting in a peaceful protest.

"We spoke to the police and they started grabbing us. They grabbed one person and we started chanting 'Ian Tomlinson' and then they put us into a corner."

One of the oldest protesters at tonight's demonstration was Monty Goldman, 78, whose father Sidney marched against Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts in east London in 1936.

Mr Goldman, from Hackney, said: "This party, the BNP, is an absolute disgrace."

There were also union members in the crowd, including one waving a banner for the RNT and another with a placard for the union Unite.

Roland Ravenhill of Unite Against Fascism called Mr Griffin "a Nazi leader" and said such a large protest was inevitable.

"Throughout history standing up to Nazis is the only way to deal with them," he said.


Police with cameras started filming the protesters, many of whom waved placards denouncing the war in Iraq.

Frank Langan, 66, from Ealing, west London, was escorted into the building as he was one of the audience members.

Before he went into Television Centre, he said: "I'm going to go in and find out what Nick Griffin has got to say. I don't have to agree with it but I think it's right that he is allowed on Question Time.

"I think everybody is entitled to their own opinion, even if you don't like them."

Another protest took place at BBC Wales offices in Llandaff, Cardiff where around 40 demonstrators gathered.

Members of Unite Against Fascism from Cardiff and Bridgend were joined by local politicians including Cardiff North Labour MP Julie Morgan.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Watching the clips, but the BBC have royally f***ed it up. They have clearly packed the audience with stooges, Dimbleby is clearly not being independent, Jack Straw was caught out (his Dad did time in WWII for refusing to fight, Griffin's Dad was in the RAF), and it just comes across as a "kick Griffin" session. The audience have rehearsed their little "soundbites" for the press, and the audience duly "woohoo" and "yay" their appreciation - it sounds more like Jeremy Kyle than Question Time.

He must be laughing, they have done exactly what he wanted them to do - turned on him. He has managed to give answers to every question, and whether the audience liked them or not, they are factually correct.

Dimbleby made a twat of himself, having a go at Griffin for bringing up Jack Straw's Dad (not his son, luckily...), and then pushing the holocaust denier history of Griffin. He does to Griffin exactly what he accuses Griffin doing to Straw. Dimbleby comes across as a stooge, and a poor one at that. He just tries to be sarcastic and clever, and comes across as an arse licker.

The black guy has a good go about a group of people that refuse to allow ethnics to join, but Dimbleby blows it by pushing the holocaust denial part. "Why are you smiling?" - he sounds like a bloody primary school teacher.

Happy Christmas Mr Griffin.

 

[patchamalbion]

one things for sure a potential binfest will follow on NSC!

 

[Cian]

Possibly, if I can be arsed to stay up. The rumours that Griffin gets eaten alive might be worth it, mainly to see the knuckle draggers on here insisting he did well afterwards if he does...

 

[Martinf]

There are clips already on the BBC News website. Looks like he's been exposed for the tedious creep that he is.

 

[auschr]

Sounds like Griffin made a mockery of the lefty loonies. No wonder Gordon won't go on a non BBC programme too scared to face the realities of what his party has done to the country, instead sticking to state funded television spouting nonsense as independent and intelligent.

 

[Martinf]

Watching the clips, but the BBC have royally f***ed it up. They have clearly packed the audience with stooges, Dimbleby is clearly not being independent, Jack Straw was caught out (his Dad did time in WWII for refusing to fight, Griffin's Dad was in the RAF), and it just comes across as a "kick Griffin" session. The audience have rehearsed their little "soundbites" for the press, and the audience duly "woohoo" and "yay" their appreciation - it sounds more like Jeremy Kyle than Question Time.

He must be laughing, they have done exactly what he wanted them to do - turned on him. He has managed to give answers to every question, and whether the audience liked them or not, they are factually correct.

Dimbleby made a twat of himself, having a go at Griffin for bringing up Jack Straw's Dad (not his son, luckily...), and then pushing the holocaust denier history of Griffin. He does to Griffin exactly what he accuses Griffin doing to Straw. Dimbleby comes across as a stooge, and a poor one at that. He just tries to be sarcastic and clever, and comes across as an arse licker.

The black guy has a good go about a group of people that refuse to allow ethnics to join, but Dimbleby blows it by pushing the holocaust denial part. "Why are you smiling?" - he sounds like a bloody primary school teacher.

Happy Christmas Mr Griffin.

Utter crap

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Utter crap

Superb comment. Now get your head out of your arse and explain why.

 

[Driver8]

Were his parents related? He's got eyes like a chameleon!
What a c**t.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Of course I'll be watching it Uncle you cock juggling facist ****! (Pissed on Leffe again, but the truth will out. Uncle's always voted Tory along with Hove Born and ****).

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Were his parents related? He's got eyes like a chameleon!
What a c**t.

One of them is a glass eye...

 

[tedebear]

Utter crap

When you've finished going to the loo (you obviously finished your reply early to go and shake the snake) can you elucidate?