BBC defend decision to invite the BNP to appear on tonight's "Question Time"

Just wait until a general election is near. All the polls conducted will be amassed to ascertain public opinion and they'll roll with that sentiment. Very tedious how that works :(

He is very similar to William Hague (is that his name?). Charismatic but lacking polish and roundedness.

I still maintain that John Smith would have been one of the best leaders that Britain had ever seen. RIP!

The BNP, while radical, have a position too and I feel it to be folly and hypocritical that a party that has chalked up some voice in Europe should be kicked to the kerb/curb. Fine, criticism where criticism is due but let democracy takes its logical course.

Hague and Ian Smith, exactly. Charismatic in a way but air blowers for the most part. Howard has etched his notoriety in the annals of history with Paxman :) 16 times the same answer.

Exaggerated hysteria serves no end, I agree. If they get a seat, all power to them.

By "live and let live" all I mean is that there is nothing wrong in respecting someone else's religion or culture, as long as it is not at the expense of my own.

I watched QT with a fairly open mind, in that I couldn't imagine Griffin converting me into a supporter, but I still wanted to hear what he had to say.

Of course there will always be hard line people that will vote for the BNP regardless of anything. What I mean is that those that are wavering or voted for the BNP for the first time at the Euros, they are the people that the main parties are not listening too, they vote BNP out of desperation as much as anything else.

We all have preferences but if the BNP is meant to be, it is meant to be. I'd rather not have them to, right enough.

Thats a bit contradictory though, the only way it can not come at your expense is to ensure that people assimilate and for that to happen the numbers entering the country must be controlled and a multicultural society cannot be allowed to exise. lebanon springs to mind.

An open mind my foot, i think i proved once before when we had a discussion on immigration that even with the evidence heaped against you that you still chose to keep the same old views. Anyway haven't you heard QT was a setup.

Thats not fair really is it, not fair on the BNP or the people that voted for them.

Its well documented how much the BNP spent on campaigning for the Euro elections and how much they met with people face to face to discuss daily issues so i think that the majority of people that voted did so because they agree with the BNP.
Thats something that we just have to accept.

At one level, I like the BNP's policy of thwarting the process of fuller integration.

I've always spoken in favour of managed immigration with strict rules and even stricter consequences if those rules are broken.

Just what are those views exactly ?

What's not fair ?

People that vote BNP have to be comfortable with their agenda. However it is dressed up, it is a fundamentally racist one.

People can't vote BNP and then get the ass ache when people think them racists.

Are they open about it enough to tell their boss or put a poster in their front room window ? I doubt it.

And the BNP have to do little to incite any hatred towards polish people as most do a good job of attracting hatred towards themselves.

poles will be one of the groups that might be restricted.

such as ......?

How?

I think a better question would be how wouldn't they be

poles are probably the largest immigrant population in the uk

There is always one that wants to play hardball,

like their behaviour which is normally a good starting point.

They can't be any more loutish than Brits out on the randan.

3rd largest I think.

By the way its not just the BNP that want to restrict immigration of those from the new member states UKip also want this.

have a quota system in place so why can't Britain?

Kicking all foreigners

Kicking all foreigners out would never be allowed.

EU legislation

Beside how would differentiate who to kick and who not to kick

I might have missed that but its nice to hear.

A couple of times you seem to be defensive towards polish people, lets be honest here. We all no that poles will be one of the groups that might be restricted.

I don't think that being racist is a problem if we use the correct understanding of it as i have wrote above, if we use the labour or "lefty" version of it then it all of a sudden becomes about hate and only hate

People have the right to dislike people because they are different or because they don't like their culture and nobody should have to feel ashamed about that.

Anyway there is nothing that can really happen at your work place if you admit to voting for the BNP if you have your head screwed on, after all its a political party.

I don't think the new BNP would do that, no. EU law is a collective and concerted drive that will not be reversed. Griffin would be assassinated if he tried that.

Kicking all foreigners out would never be allowed. It's so implausible. The government don't care as long as they are earning big bucks for themselves.

Beside how would differentiate who to kick and who not to kick, some "foreigners" have lived in UK for ages..

It is ensconced in EU legislation (a Directive) that as long as an immigrant can constructively apply their trade, they have a right to live and work abroad.

I was trained to read EU legislation correctly and they should be doing that already. The latest Directive expressly states that they should only be here if they are contributing or are taking active steps to contribute to British society.

I think there has to be some flexibility, Mister H. Having been in the position of job seeker before, it's not that easy.

Although not PC, I am liberal enough to grant Poles a chance. Heck, some Brits have made a life off of sponging from the state so we need to be understanding. Monitoring will show if they are sponging or not.