Griffin Fails To Make Glasgow North East, BNP leader pelted with eggs (Youtube video) Options

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British National Party leader Nick Griffin was today forced to cancel a planned visit to the constituency of Glasgow North East after he was pelted with eggs by demonstrators in Hamilton. Mr Griffin had been in Hamilton for a radio interview on local Lanarkshire radio station L107.

The BNP leader had been expected to visit Springburn to support his party's candidate in the Glasgow North East by-election set for next month; however, he was unable to keep an appointment which would have seen him join Charlie Baillie at Springburn Shopping Centre.

Despite the attention of a group of 40 protesters who had heckled and harassed the politician when he arrived at the radio's HQ, Mr Griffin took part in a morning phone-in a week following his debut on the BBC's Question Time.

Mr Griffin though was unable to make the 10 mile trip from Hamilton to Springburn for his scheduled appearance in the constituency vacated by the ex-Westminster Speaker Michael Martin.

L107 programme director Derek McIntyre defended the decision to allow the BNP leader an interview, but suggested that it might prove to be "commercial suicide" for the local station. Mr McIntyre said:

"We have received 50 emails this morning from people withdrawing their support for the station and two or three advertisers have said they are pulling out. Nobody is going to benefit from having the BNP on their station but we felt it was right for our listeners to be able to put their points to him and ask questions.”

Mr McIntyre added that the station had originally turned down Mr Griffin's request for slot. The station was later swayed after Mr Griffin's controversial Question Time appearance. He continued:

"After Question Time, we felt that if we did not put them on and allow people to put their points to them and have their questions answered we would not be doing their job. It is commercial suicide but we would have seen it as an opportunity missed. It is a certainty we will lose listeners."

The failed appearance came on the day nominations for the Glasgow North-East by-election closed, with a total of 13 candidates vying to win the seat. The full list of candidates is:

• Charlie Baillie, British National Party
• Willie Bain, Labour
• Eileen Baxendale, Liberal Democrats
• Mev Brown, independent
• Colin Campbell, The Individuals Labour and Tory (TILT)
• Ruth Davidson, Conservative
• David Doherty, Green Party
• Mikey Hughes
• David Kerr, SNP
• Louise McDaid, Socialist Labour Party
• Kevin McVey, Scottish Socialist Party - Make Greed History
• Tommy Sheridan, Solidarity
• John Smeaton, Jury Team

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[Catherine]

Whit a waste of a guid egg Martin

I thought Hamilton was a lot further than ten miles from Springburn, is it no?

[norrie123]

While I wont be voting for BNP in any election they do raise some isues that I am worried about , unchecked immigration.
I think that if we need people to come into the Uk they should be able and willing to work, we have enough folk on the dole for what ever reason without brining in more lazy dole blodgers
.
In Glasgow we have Romanians selling the Big Issue,Busking and begging, what do they contribute,nothing, send them back to Romania.
If the Labour and Tories had addressed this problem, partys like BNP would not be heard of.

Let the BNP talk, the majority of voters will not vote for them

bye for now, norrie

[Peter Dow]

Consider the lies and hypocrisy of the BBC justifying letting Griffin on Question Time on the grounds of "impartiality".

BBC impartiality is a LIE as is proved by the years of BBC pro-monarchy propaganda and BBC news stories every week about and featuring the royal family spewed out by BBC News and the minimal coverage given to republicans.

There is no BBC impartiality in the monarchy VS republic debate. When the BBC say they are impartial always it is not true. It is a lie.

So the excuse given by the BBC for including Griffin on the Question Time panel - they need to be impartial - that too is a lie.

The UK royalist elite who manage the BBC like the royals and they like the BNP - that is why they cover them both. The BBC don't promote republicans because the UK royalist elite hate republicans and the whole idea of a true democracy with elected presidents and that is why they ban republicans from TV 99% of the time in political comment and debate.

The UK is rigged to remain a kingdom and this farce of an election is equally rigged as all UK elections are - sympathetic coverage to the royalists and republicans all but ignored.

We can't obtain democracy, freedom and justice by relying on the BBC - we need a republican strategy, see my profile.

[Anne Rutherford]

While I wont be voting for BNP in any election they do raise some isues that I am worried about , unchecked immigration.
I think that if we need people to come into the Uk they should be able and willing to work, we have enough folk on the dole for what ever reason without brining in more lazy dole blodgers
.
In Glasgow we have Romanians selling the Big Issue,Busking and begging, what do they contribute,nothing, send them back to Romania.
If the Labour and Tories had addressed this problem, partys like BNP would not be heard of.

Let the BNP talk, the majority of voters will not vote for them

bye for now, norrie

Norrie, You should have read last weekend's Daily mail.. it alledged that
The Labour Party has had an open door policy since 2000 to Scocially Engineer the country into multiculturalism & diversity - just to get up the snitches of the Right Wingers.

To be fair to Griffen, he challenged the Straw Man on this.. most bluster and waffle from JS...

Me I'm voting SNP

[TeeHeeHee]

If the Labour and Tories had addressed this problem, partys like BNP would not be heard of.

bye for now, norrie

I always ask myself why all these small parties, as in the list above, get off the ground; whether in the UK or over here, and your quote really says it all.

If the main parties, when they're in control, cannot get it right to the general good of us all then all these vote vultures spring up like mushrooms in manure and the lunatics finish up running the asylum ... no pun intended.

[fronswa]

He should be allowed to go wherever he wants, but I voted no because their version of free speech would be a helluva lot different to what we consider it to be today.

And another thing.
Would it be out of order for someone to have shouted at him, "Oi Griffin! Why don't you **** off back to your own country?".

P.S.

Is anyone impressed by this promotional video?

Glasgow North By-Election - BNP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4wcFkTxPU&NR=1

[Isobel]

I would not know what party to vote for there seems to be so many.Am I wrong in thinking in the 1950-60 there were just Labour and Tory. Well that's what I remember. HELP Where did they all come from?

[8ball345]

Does anyone really think these vpoliticians(regardless which party)are anxious to get in to try and better the country.the more I see the more obvious it becomes that they want the position for the big money and perks it brings.8ball

[tamhickey]

I most certainly do not want to see the leader of a neo fascist organisation like the BNP come to visit the constituency I live in. Nor do i want any of his cavemen followers asking for my vote, for I'll tell them where they can shove it. As for the guy who's standing for them, I watched the video and had to laugh when he stated the BNP would recruit more doctors and nurses to the NHS: they would have to, as they would repatriate most of the ones we currently have to their own countries, and that would not only include specialist surgeons, doctors and nurses, but would also include hospital porters, clerical workers and catering staff.
In short, there is no reality to their whimsical dreams of some kind of British Reich. The Empire has gone guys, get used to it, and get used to being a part of the European union.
As for housing policy, you would put all your supporters into the worst housing accommodation in the constituency would you? Some of the worst in the UK. For that is where Asylum seekers are housed. In buildings that ought to have been condemned years ago.
Scariest of all is the insistence that we ought to have Trident missiles. With the BNP's finger on the button, who knows who you would target first? Israel perhaps?

[donaldanderson]

The Partiality of the Anglocentric EBC is legendary. Not surprising they let another British Nationalist, who is also opposed to free speech on the waves, for years they and the British Nationalist Governments kept changing the rules to keep the SNP and others off the waves.

No platform for fascists.

Britannia waves the rules.

[Old Sailor]

I am responding from Vancouver, but as a born Glaswgian I still hold an interest in all the City provides in culture, politics and socila issues. I should add that I am a WW2 vetran and owe my good life to a Glasgow University education, the place where I met a Canadian student who captivated my heart then and still does todayas my wife of fifty five years. I deplore the policies of the BNP and I fought against them almost seventy years ago, however for what it is worth I would never prevent the appearance of any member of this sick contingent from confronting an audience to address their views otherwise we become the aggressors of free speech, the very premise which they deny yet rely upon to spread venomous policy. Our language is vulnerable to abuse and still flexible to rebuff its abusers. I note the long list of candidates seeking the seat and trust that some of them are equipped to recognize that a good idea can be talked down with a better idea and that Mr Griffin will lose the opportunity to wax eloquence. A further note for concern is that this long list of candidates is of no worry to Mr Griffin,on the contrary, it might just help to nudge him to victory. I pray not!
Signed Orpheum.

[Rob Rattray]

I dinna know the gent in question, but no matter who, he is a human being as we are and hencewith has every right to voice his opinion on matters; whether we wish to agree is another question altogether!

[tamhickey]

Rob, I understand what you mean. However, this party would do all they could to stop free speech. They care nothing about those of us who didn't vote for them and are absolutely evil. To use and disgrace photos of spitfires defending Britain whilst they believe in Nazism is abhorrhent and shows just how much they despise us all. Make no mistake. This lot would take the liberties that we currently have and throw them in the bin. No, it's not allright for Griffin to do and say as he likes as he would take many of those self same rights away from the rest of us.
reminds me of Johnny Rotten who said to an audience "Ever felt you're being used?"

[*Huggy*]

Let's be honest, -The One positive thing about the BNP is that they force the other parties to wonder why any sane decent person could think of voting for them. -Only one reason. -To force the other parties to address what seems to be uncontrolled mass immigration of crooks, rogues and vagabonds. Absolutely regardless of colour! -The Gov't must address this issue. -The majority of people demand it!