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If reports are to be believed, between after last nights show and midday today 3000 more people signed up for the party.

This wasn't a regular QT and most of it was spent bashing the BNP. You might say this was to be expected, but by allowing the format and content to change the BBC were asking for trouble. A complaint from the BNP was inevitable and unfortunately they've got a good point, I imagine there will be more to come on this.

Whether you like the BNP or not, as long as they keep within the rules and people vote for them in substantial numbers they have to be given coverage - that right and obligation is fundamental to democracy. You can't pick or choose the rules just because you don't agree with someone, no matter how sickening you find them. Its exactly the same as in the Middle East, the West encourages democracy and then gets pissed when someone gets elected that they don't like.

If people want the BNP to disappear you need to look at the reasons why people vote for them and do something about it. A lot of people are unhappy with the current immigration policies and the present government has done pretty much nothing to address those concerns. The longer the key issues go unaddressed, the longer the BNP will be with us and the stronger it will get.

It got to the stage when I actually nearly started feeling sorry for Griffin, the amount of times he was cut off mid sentence while the others were allowed to ramble on for minutes was disgraceful. And as for the others, it's all well and good trying to make someone look bad, but pathetic to then dodge questions the very few times you are put on the spot.