I watched Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time with interest.

While I thought he was set up a bit, he didn’t do himself any favours with his unfounded, unsupported, pig ignorant responses to questions.

That said, I wonder if someone had sent someone out to gee up the audience beforehand as there was understandably some serious rage directed at him.

One thought I had was is that It’s almost as if someone had designed Nick Griffin as leader of a hugely unpopular right wing party.

His greasy hair, red face and that weird eye, combined with his repulsive views made him very easy to hate – and hate the audience did.

But one thing I thought was glossed over was the fact people turned out to protest against him appearing.

Sorry, the guy’s a loon and thoroughly dislikable, but he’s the leader of a political party, and one that holds European seats no less, he’s got to have his say.

Set him up, gang up on him, whatever, but you can’t not let him speak.

the 500 odd (and they are very odd) people who turned up to protest are essentially protesting against free speech and thus, democracy.

These are the very same people, of course, who would be out on the streets if censorship was ever introduced in this country, which it won’t be.

It’s nonsense, there are places to protest, but this was not the right place.

And shame on the politicians saying the same thing, that he shouldn’t have been allowed on the progamme, are they that scared of the BNP?

The BNP will NOT get into power, they will continue to have a scattering of members getting ignored on local councils and that is that.

Let Griffin have his say, realise he’s talking utter garbage, and make an informed decision.

Censorship is a popular policy of extreme dictators and has no place in a democracy.

Griffin is perfectly capable of making himself look ridiculous, we don’t need to drive him underground, the more publicity he gets, the more people will realise what he stands for and how wrong that is.

and the politicians, as they no doubt start working out how they can pay back their fiddled expenses, should look closely at themselves as to why anyone takes any notice of Griffin and his apes at all.