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Claire Tisali
07 September 2009 at 18:28

The BNP is a left wing, not right wing, organisation.

kardinal birjutzki
07 September 2009 at 18:33

I think you should stop this, mate! You are in danger of making a complete laughing stock of yourself. As I told you before, if you really think the BBC has a right-wing bias then you ought to see a psychiatrist.

kenny
07 September 2009 at 18:49

How do you know this isn't a trap for the bnp? There could be a very anti- bnp audience to shout down Nick Griffin every time he opens his mouth. They could also maybe be trying to smear the bnp, who knows??. But the full media establishment have been alienating the bnp and there voters for years. You type bnp into google and all you can see is anti-bnp articles smears & lies. Political times are changing the liberal globalists have had there time for way too long, and nationalist are on the rise all through europe.

Simon
07 September 2009 at 19:26

You think the BBC are right-wing leaning? Well, you must be in a minority and I'm not talking about your ethnicity.

John Carp
07 September 2009 at 20:14

How liberal of Mr Hasan to argue that the BNP should not be encouraged to appear in a televised political debate.

Your articles get worse by the day.

James
07 September 2009 at 22:26

You are a joke

Kenny Mulguire
07 September 2009 at 22:37

The day The producers of QT give you a voice on the show is a sad day for political debate in this country.

Daniele
08 September 2009 at 01:14

I can't believe I have just read those comments. Either these people are all BNP members or they are all off their trolleys, probably both..It is quite clear who should get their heads examined here. In fact I am appalled and surprised that people who hold such absurd opinions are NS readers. Anyway, of course Mehdi is absolutely right. This is the way Hitler became respectable and got elected. The obsession of the BBC to appear non-biased is leading them to invite just about anybody, just to look objective while in fact by doing that they of course favour the right, this time, the extreme right. Like you said the BNP are not just another party and to pretend it is, is either stupid or at best extremely misguided and dangerous.

By the way I can't remember when a truly left-wing politician appeared on Q.T. They all seemed to be struggling to come up with a different opinion as they are all hovering between the centre and the right. "The BBC is left-wing" is a modern myth!

ExplodingBadger
08 September 2009 at 02:08

"The BNP is a left wing, not right wing, organisation."

Now THAT is barking mad. Regardless of the suits they are out and out fascists.

Its interesting the way some people really hate the idea of the BBC being right wing so much.

@Kenny Mulguire

Why would you want to silence this person ? What are you scared off ?

James
08 September 2009 at 09:23

Barking mad Gareth? You should look into the socialist origins of fascism. Remember that the Nazi Party was the National Socialist German Worker's Party.

ashleyhk
08 September 2009 at 09:56

Gareth

The National Socialist Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party was, like other fascist parties, born of the Left.

Read some history.

Bernard
08 September 2009 at 10:43

The BBC is on the side of the Establishment. It only sounds left occasionally, because the govt. press releases it parrots occasionally sound mildly left wing themselves. Not often, but occasionally. I remain dismayed however that people get into such a lather about this preposterous little man and his 30 watt henchmen. What irritates me beyond words tho is hacks (all the Beeb big (old) guns) suddenly feeling its ok to be outraged and critical, and to drop their faux even-handedness - Dimbleby, Humphrys they all did it when the BNP had a tiny increase in votes in one of the most apathetic elections in history. Then they slip back into line and don't get angry about anything that really matters - poverty, our international pariah status, our war crimes etc. This is more about the BBC showing how right on they are, with old farts like DD being seen to 'give them a hard time'.

Mehdi Hasan
08 September 2009 at 12:20

"Read some history", says Ashley, claiming the Nazis were "born of the Left". Hilarious. I am sure you have neither the time nor the inclination to read actual works of history on the rise of the Nazis, so here is a relevant link to Wikipedia which might clear things up you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party#Origins_and_early_ex...:_1918-1923

Lewis
08 September 2009 at 12:39

I would disagree that they've changed their enemies. their apparent turn on islam is just to prey on fears and win votes. European Nazis have a long history of supporting islamic extremists, going right back to Hitler who funded the muslim brotherhood. Their shared anti-semitism among other things made them allies, and why the British Nazi's including Nick Griffin supported the islamic revolution in Iran. Griffin has been caught on camera at a meeting (with the KKK in attendence no less) openly stating they need to hide their true ideology in order to gain power. It's their false projection we musn't allow them to show, instead showing who they really are and their history.

mitchy
08 September 2009 at 13:20

I say let Griffin have his moment on QT - any intelligent, open minded individual listening to his odious, bigoted rantings shouldnt have any trouble seeing him and the BNP for what they really are - racists in suits desperate to obtain legitimacy for their divisive and repulsive brand of 'politics'.

a.m.r.
08 September 2009 at 18:26

This is a ridiculously bad article.

Headline "BBC "liberals" love the BNP" ?

John Carp
08 September 2009 at 19:08

The left-wing/right wing argument concerning the BNP is a non-sequitur. We don't actually know all of the BNP's real economic policies, so we don't know whether they are really hardline fascists, or hardline socialists. It is irrelevant, as Hayek pointed out, the difference between the far left authoritarians and the far right authoritarians is miniscule. Fascism, in its literal definition, is allying capitalist enterprises to National Socialism. I doubt the BNP have mentioned this anywhere, but then I'm sure N.Griffin is sensible enough to realise he's not going to be leader of the country anytime soon anyway. After all, by his own word, there are far more immigrants in this country than there are BNP party members atm, so how are they supposed to win?

'National socialism' doesn't make sense anyway, racism is social darwinism and socialism isn't, so the two can't logically go hand in hand.

Danielle - No one is stating that the BNP aren't an odious party. But left wing liberals like me believe in dialectic debating to solve problems and weed out the 'bad ideas' (to quote Dawkins). To create taboos and mysticism by refusing to appear with the BNP, or by refusing to broadcast them, only prolongs the length of time before they are found out.

How many people in the BNP, bar Nick Griffin, are actually pseudo-intellectuals? Any airtime they get is almost always with him talking. If we could get some of the other less intelligent leaders of the party in the limelight, I am sure the mysticism would come crashing down like a house of cards.

On this occasion, Mr Hasan seems to be getting on his high horse because they are targeting Muslims, and forgetting the concept of political pluralism.

S Khan
08 September 2009 at 22:10

The BNP are authoritarian, anti-democracy, pro-corporal punishment, pro-capital punishment, pro-family and anti-gay. They are, in fact, the political party whose policies are most in line with Islamic teaching. The main difference between the two is the issue of segregation. The BNP believe in segregating on the basis of race; Islam segregates on the basis of gender. I'm undecided on which is worse.

Gordon the Moron
08 September 2009 at 22:48

The BBC has at last agreed for the BNP to have a representative on Question Time. With a million people voting for them they have a right as 6.2% of the national vote is equal to 1 in every 16 UK citizens. Most people are sick of hearing the 3 main parties agreeing with each other and referring to them as an extreme Right/wing party.

All of its economics, health and education policies are Left/wing. There is much more to them than being anti-immigration, they want British jobs for British workers, to retain our culture and traditions, proper punishment for criminals, better public transport, no GM food and a return to traditional teaching methods.

I am sure more than 1 in 16 would agree with their policy to stop immigration (except for essential workers) and to kick out illegals and those that commit crime here.

Labour are the real fascists as some have stated they will refuse to appear alongside a BNP member and it is them that should be barred from appearing in future. No doubt Labour will instruct the BBC to invite their sub-contract supporters UAF and Searchlight as the main audience.

Nick
17 September 2009 at 14:43

Hello Claire . The right/left designations are rather outmoded.

Please take a look at politicalcompass.org to understand what I mean.

Pat Harrington
25 September 2009 at 19:20

It seems to me that if a Party attracts six per cent of the national vote and has two MEPs then it should be allowed to put views before the public. The BBC have a duty of impartiality. I also feel that 'no platform' died when many-to-many communication was born. Nick Griffin doesn't need Question Time or the BBC to put over his views. Nor does any other non-establishment politician or activist.

Neil
11 October 2009 at 15:31

Its only recently that the BBC have welcomed the BNP. For years they would not touch them,and yes they are run by P-C left wing liberal vermin.

MR HASAN ARE YOU REALLY THAT DUMB, TO SUGGEST THE BNP HAVE BEEN WELCOMED BY THE BBC ALL ALONG!!!

THEY ARE DOING IT NOW BECAUSE BY LAW THEY HAVE TO.

pops
23 October 2009 at 00:03

this is about RATINGS just as it always it with the BBC....when was the last time this many people watched Question Time? How many young people even KNEW Question Time existed? It's perfect for the BBC...how could they not kill two birds with one stone: get ratings for a flailing air-filler AND look inbiased as they so desperately want to seem even though the guidelines to their drama scripts are guarded closer than Fort Knox....not too much gay material, not too much ethnicity etc.

It's time for an organisation like the BBC to grow a pair and put their foot down. The BNP have NO political ideas, only ideas about cleaning out the colours.

Well done to those who turn a blind eye, while you were sleeping through your history lesson on the Nazis, history was already starting to repeat.