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Last night, Britain was glued to its TV set as Nick Griffin of the British National Party (BNP) appeared on Question Time, a live debate on the BBC, reports the Daily Telegraph. This was the first time in the history of the august corporation, and indeed British television, that a member of the extreme-right had been invited to present his views in a before a studio audience. In the company of luminaries such as Justice Secretary Jack Straw, Griffin, whose party garnered 1 million votes and 2 MEPs in June’s European elections, was of the opinion that Winston Churchill, were he walking amongst us today, would have joined his movement, that homosexuals were “creepy” and that real Nazis “hate” him. He described the pillow-slip wearing Aryan fanatics of the US Ku Klux Klan as “non-violent”, and believed the “indigenous” white populations of Britain were to be overwhelmed by a wave of Islamic immigration giving rise to a genocide comparable to that of Australia’s aborigines. As Mr Griffin spouted such gobbledygook, left wing demonstrators wishing to ban the BNP threw themselves at police outside BBC HQ. Today’s papers all ask the question whether Mr Griffin should be denied the “oxygen” of publicity, or whether his views should be “exposed” for the racist, xenophobic jumble that it is. The jury is still out.
