BNP on the BBC again

smithdown · March 6, 2010

This Sunday on The Politics Show there is to be a debate with candidates for Barking & Dagenham invited in to give it loads:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/regions/london/8551874.stm

Thing is though, he did so f*cking badly last time that he's refused to go on to the programme and their website (oh dear I've lost the link) says this:

British National Party leader Nick Griffin is more than happy to debate national issues with his parliamentary opponents in Barking but has refused to take part in another Question Time lynch mob set-up on the Politics Show this weekend.

“In exactly the same way that last year’s Question Time was manipulated, the BBC has once again reversed all of its standard procedures for the Politics Show to set up the BNP,” Mr Griffin said.

So what have the producers of the Politics Show done? They have engaged in a major departure from normality by setting up a debate between parliamentary candidates in the run-up to a major national election where the agenda has been preset to only discuss local issues in a borough controlled by the Labour Party.

“They know full well that all the BNP councillors are shut out by the Labourites and that we do not have access to all the insider information which they do. No doubt they have already shared this information amongst all three candidates and the show chairman so that they can all gang up against the BNP in a four-to-one attack again, just as was the case with Question Time.

“If the Politics Show producers want to organise a debate on the national issues, I would be more than happy to take part and attend, but they must not think for a minute that I will take part in yet another obvious far left mob lynching,” Mr Griffin said.

Peter Hain must be livid.

John am Rhein · March 6, 2010

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