The staggeringly biased lynch mob Question Time broadcast on BBC 1 has turned into the single biggest recruitment night in the British National Party’s history, with no less than 3,000 new people registering to be signed up as members when the current recruitment freeze ends.
This figure represents the single largest block of new membership expressions of interest ever, and will, once formally signed up, have boosted party membership by nearly 30 percent.
The BBC broke every rule in its book, even changing the format of the show to allow a hand-picked mob to use up the entire hour to relentlessly attack BNP leader Nick Griffin. Even the supposed moderator, David Dimbleby, joined in the attack, refusing to allow Mr Griffin to answer a single question in full -- despite letting other panellists ramble on for minutes at a time.
Mr Griffin said this morning that he was going to submit a formal complaint and a Freedom of Information Act request to have the preparatory papers for the show exposed to the public.
“There we will see that the BBC not only changed the format of the show, but that the questions were primed to be a barrage of lies disguised as statements,” Mr Griffin said.
The normal format of the show is to discuss issues of the day. Last night’s show was merely a prepared bear pit with a hostile hand-picked audience and panel, exactly as Mr Griffin had earlier predicted it would be.
At one stage, the ‘moderator’ allowed three highly charged questions in a row attacking Mr Griffin. When the BNP leader started to answer the first one, Mr Dimbleby interrupted and refused to let Mr Griffin continue his answer or even begin to answer the other two.
"People wanted to see me and hear me talking about things such as the postal strike. One or two questions about what a ‘wicked man’ I am, fair enough, but the whole programme, that was absurd,” Mr Griffin said.
In addition to the complaint he would be lodging over the show, Mr Griffin called for the entire event to be “done again. But let’s do it properly this time,” he said.
Mr Griffin said the viewing public had tuned in, wanting to hear the BNP’s policies and views on immigration, the postal strike, the illegal war in Afghanistan and other issues of the day.
“Instead they got none of that, merely a list of statements, almost none of which were even questions,” Mr Griffin said.
“I could also sit and prepare an hour of statements about other panel members if given the opportunity,” he said. “I could say that Mr Jack Straw was a member of the Young Communist League as a student.
“I could say that ‘Baroness’ Warsi has never been elected to anything and was told to stand down in Dewsbury by her own party because they wanted a white person as candidate.
“If I had to abuse the public broadcaster to do that, they would squeal like pigs. Yet this was exactly what was done to me,” Mr Griffin said.
He added that the programme should have been filmed somewhere else because London was "not my country any more. Why not come down and do it in Thurrock, do it in Stoke, do it in Burnley?
"Do it somewhere where significant numbers of English and British people still live, somewhere where they haven't been ethnically cleansed from their own country."
Mr Griffin said that the biased nature of the programme was obvious to all viewers and that this would generate further support for the BNP as it was now clear to all exactly how the other parties gladly teamed up against him.
* The BBC said it had received more than 350 complaints after the show was broadcast by midday today -- the bulk of which accused the show of being biased against the BNP and/or Mr Griffin.
* £5,300 was raised in donations over the party’s web site. This does not include the call centre, whose figures are not yet available. The combined hit rate climbed to just over 15 million for the past three days. The Alexa web ranking for 20 October placed the BNP website as the 11,468 most visited site in the world, a number which will certainly climb as the figures are updated.
