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[Lucky Rathen]

I've got a mate who works at the BBC and she says she had to fight her way through a crowd of anti-BNP protesters to get into work this morning!

[Le Stu]

The Searchlight mob are about as scary as the BNP, IMO. Yet just as irrelevant.

[Bigsby]

A pal who works at the BBC in London just posted "BNP protesters now breaking in." on Facebook.

[Carrots Gladstone]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

A pal who works at the BBC in London just posted "BNP protesters now breaking in." on Facebook.

I've got a real gripe with protesters.

Well, not with protesters as such, but protesters who use physical force / violence etc.

Who gave them the fucking right to break into the BBC to make a noise about the BNP. Doesn't that just bring you down to the level of the thing you're protesting against (or in some cases lower)?

What good will terrorising the poor reception / door staff at the BBC do? Yeah, I'm sure it was that guy on the door that decided to let the guy from BNP on Question Time. Wise up and go and get a fucking job (or a hobby, since the job market ain't that great at the moment).

The protests against the banks earlier in the year were also disgusting.

[Gus Chamber]

Originally Posted by Le Stu

"I've been told I shouldn't talk about politics because a) I'm uninformed and b) because I'm female..

Christ, that bit had me in knots.

But then I got bored of the silly cow.

[Tam o' Shantie]

is everybody really friends with Mel? and is that really where she works?

[delboy]

A good little trick from the BBC to invogorate some interest and debate about Question Time! Have to admit I used to watch it a lot but haven't in ages. The presence of Mr Griffin (related to the Griffins in family guy one wonders) is certainly going to be good for viewing figures! Maybe it might pave the way for more extremists to go on the show?

I still believe in freedom of speech no matter how stupid, ignorant, misguided and ridiculous that viewpoint may be. Any half brained idiot will see through daft radical views.

Good that there is black representation (Bonnie Greer) and asian representation (BARONESS WARSI) on the show. I look forward to Griffin explaining his whites only policy in full to them and how his warped idea of sending people of Pakistani descent like Baroness Warsi who has lived in the UK all her life back to Pakistan would actually work in theory.

[Le Stu]

Nick Griffin was the most uncomfortable person, with the most diversionary answers.

Second place, Jack Straw. He was shit.

LOLled at entire audience turning round in horror at people in the back clapping Griffin.

In summary, 2/3rd bukkake, 1/3 substance.

[Dave]

That was a bit of an anticlimax. Griffin didn't come across very well, but no-one really landed any significant punches on him either. The panellists were too wrapped up with their pre-prepared dossiers on the BNP and Griffin's public utterances and failed to react to the situation in any kind of dynamic fashion. At least the programme has stirred up some anti BNP fervour, but no-one has come out of it with their reputations enhanced.

And seriously, the "Dr Strangelove of British politics"? Jack, get a grip. What does that even mean? I've seen that film a dozen times and never once thought "Ah, doesn't Peter Sellers remind you of Nick Griffin?". Time to get a new joke writer.

[Scorge]

Originally Posted by Dave

That was a bit of an anticlimax. Griffin didn't come across very well, but no-one really landed any significant punches on him either. The panellists were too wrapped up with their pre-prepared dossiers on the BNP and Griffin's public utterances and failed to react to the situation in any kind of dynamic fashion.

It's not often I'll agree with you, but that sums my thoughts up perfectly well. Especially the panel: if it was a boxing match, Griffin would have caught a cold with the draft off all the gloves. A decent non-party panelist like Hislop or Brooker would have shot him down

No 'winner' out of this programme, apart from the Beeb's ratings........