If he is doing an interview in front of the Home Office, can we assume now he is going to rip down their insignia?

People are making a real meal of this and misrepresenting what happened in the description. As far as I can see he stayed pretty calm and didn't stamp on the banner - he just stamped on the pole to break it and remove it. Plus he was apparently willing to debate with the protester as he left the platform.

And by the way why is that part edited so tightly? Why not show us more of what was said? Or perhaps it doesn't suit the agenda?

Hilarious indeed. Is he a member of the Adam Boulton school of professional journalism and broadcasting?

I wouldn't mind but it's not as if the placard protester was shouting out continuously like they were doing earlier and disturbing the broadcasts.

It comes to something when free speech in the political heart of our democracy, silent protest even, is silenced by the media.

Take a chill pill Nick.

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"Had Quite Enough (Spammer), a lot of Iraqis didn't get much of fair trial when being slaughtered in their thousands by the soldiers to whom you play the role of groupie"

I didn’t see a single word about that being for American soldiers or Marines. It happened to be written by a USMC Chaplain. Iraqi soldiers were not slaughtered. Many were killed fighting for Saddam, that’s hardly a slaughter. The slaughter occurred in Kuwait where those Iraqi soldiers raped, murdered, and slaughtered at will during their occupation of that country.
I realize it’s popular to trash talk The United States at any opportunity by Brits. Those same American soldiers are the ones that did your fighting for you when the British ran from Basra and now in Helmand province Afghanistan. It was American soldiers that twice came to your country’s aid when it was YOUR country’s security under threat. Then gave you billions to rebuild your country that was squandered by your govt. trying to play the big shot on the world stage. We never asked for thanks. We do expect a little more courtesy by our supposed to be allies.

Hilarious? Err... you need to watch some comedy.

but seriously....

Why did they keep recording when it was obvious the clip could not be used?

Secondly, I might have some sympathy for NR if he had made some attempt to reason with the protester. I think he comes across as a pompous prick.

to be fair, he was probably just a bit understandably pissed off at the banner messing up his piece, I severely doubt Nick Robinson even read it before he broke it.

The BBC is the mouthpiece of the establishment, it's no more neutral than a can of acid.

I'm amazed at the number of gullible contributors to this blog. Or are they told by their party to post on these blogs to influence and educate those of us who think for ourselves?

Check out medialens for a balanced incisive view of our media and the BBC's role in the propaganda machinery.

I think I'd have cheered if Nick had done a prescott. Some people have no manners.

The issue is not 'free speech', but rather the protester deliberately trying to hijack and thereby ruin NR's report on the spending review. NR's job is to produce video, the protester was stopping him doing that. He could have held up the placard elsewhere.

If you were a sculptor and I kept nudging your arm with a placard would that count as a legitimate protest protected by a right to free speech?