I'm astonished how much attention Nick Griffin's appearance on tonight's Question Time has got over the last few days and weeks. Obviously, though, it's big news for the far right to be granted such an official platform, as all the main parties have up until now refused to share a stage with them.
There's been a great deal of comment for and against letting them appear, but I'm 100% behind it. Let's give these thugs a nice bit of rope to hang themselves with. That aside, though, the BNP have got 2 MEPs and 56 councillors. They should get a voice. That's democracy for you. This is British politics growing up.
Griffin, the leader of the BNP, will be joined tonight by Jack Straw, Conservative peer Baroness Warsi, Chris Huhne and black playwright Bonnie Greer. The host, as ever, is David Dimbleby. There have been huge protests outside the studio all day and it should be an inflammatory evening. Kicks off at 22.35.
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