BBC online forums were today flooded with support for the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, in the wake of his controversial appearance on last night's Question Time.

The Have Your Say pages of Question Time were filled with comments supporting Griffin and attacking the BBC, the other panellists and the anti-fascist demonstrators outside Television Centre yesterday.

However, there were also comments supporting the BBC for its decision to invite Griffin on to the Question Time panel.

Richard from Norwich said: "My wife and I think Nick Griffin is the most courageous man in UK politics. He was very brave to go on this show to speak in what was always going to be a hostile environment. We are English, hard working people who can see that this country has an unsustainable population rise and a crippling level of debt. We also see many imigrant arriving to exploit our generosity yet not respecting our culture. Nick Griffin speaks sense. We are being invaded whilst our boys are dying abroad, its wrong."

Mary Scott from West Yorkshire added: "The whole programme was a farce! it actually made Nick Griffen [sic] look calm and intelligent! the rest of the panal were just bullies. I am sick to death of being told what I should think and do. I am a nurse and I feel like I am walking on egg shells if I even ask a question about mass immigration How DARE the rest of the panel tell the likes of me what I should think!! I work with drug misuse and the huge numbers of immigrants who arrive here needing treatment is a joke! whoops I should be quiet."

Mrs Smith from Hull said: "I dont vote BNP but i must agree with him. The three main parties must get their act together other wise we could well be going down a very dark road."

Among posters praising the BBC decision to invite Griffin on to the flagship BBC1 current affairs discussion programme, Fred Webb, from Cambridge, said: "I like many thousands of people in this country do not support the BNP but are interested in what they have to say. The BBC were right to have Nic Griffin on the show and he was treated, just like other members of the panel in the way they deserve to be, after all if you are going to be a politician for what ever party then you must expect the criticism as well as the accolade. After watching the show I have not changed my opinion of the BNP."

There was also some criticism of Griffin. "Nick Griffin came across like the majority of politicians - a liar. Unlike most politicians he was also exposed as a holocaust denier, an admirer of Hitler and the Klu Klux Klan," said jpmonty of Dorchester

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