BNP On Question Time

September 6, 2009 at 4:57 am

Many readers here will know that TheEye is an assistant moderator for Biased BBC‘s weekly liveblogging foray into Question Time, supporting the unstoppable David Vance.

We are out of hunting season at the moment but will return alongside the programme shortly….with an interesting guest lined up in October. Nick Griffin MEP.

The BBC say that the BNP have demonstrated the right to more airtime because of “electoral support at a national level”. 6.2% at the last EU elections and two MEPs would tend to bear that out. Some Labour MPs and allegedly at least one Cabinet minister are threatening a boycott, although Conservatives and that yellow lot are willing to debate face to face.

It’s unclear whether Labour will be ’empty-chaired’ but it’s highly unlikely. The real question will be whether Griffin willl be introduced by Dimblebore as being seated on the Far Left or the Far Right.

And in further BBC news it is interesting to compare and contrast the ITV and the BBC coverage (in that order, but it’s obvious) of the disturbances in Birmingham yesterday. Which one is the more balanced account? (hat tip: Dazed n Confused)