The BBC has a duty to treat all political parties equally, so it could be said that they are not at fault here, but Griffin´s appearance would pose problems for the Labour Party: they have a long-standing policy of not sharing platforms with Fascists. Will they do a U-Turn here and lend the BNP more legitimacy?
Well, in some cases, I believe, it might be difficult to disinguish between some labour MP´s and BNP members, so wherein lies the contradiction. Labour has been stepping towards fascism over the last 15 years, one more goose step to share a platform with Griffin is neither here nor there. What´s New?
Harold Hamlet
For more See: BBC forces Labour to rethink BNP ban: Question Time invitation for Nick Griffin leads party to review boycott as Tories agree to appear
Gaby Hinsliff, political editor
The Observer, Sunday 6 September 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/06/bbc-labour-bnp-question-time
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Theres obviously good people in old labour keeping this up& liberals+greens
06.09.2009 16:33
Another good reason not to pay the licence fee
james
it is more simple than you think
07.09.2009 09:21
Racism is detestable. Simple.
Most people will agree with that statement.
What to do about those that don't.
I say, let free speech be free speech - else we be damned by its absence when we need it most - and give those that harbour the irrational emotion of racism in their bellies the 'platform' they so crave.
It would take only a mere competent orator and orthodox thinker minutes to demolish any argument put forward. Can you imagine what a Galloway, a Benn or a me could do in those minutes? Enough to put back the cause of the bnp by decades.
The actually hate free and open debate and gain only where it is stymied or incomplete.
bobs uncle
debate and destroy
10.09.2009 17:54
tim