SUPPORTERS of the BNP have complained that party leader Nick Griffin was “set up” and placed before a “hand-picked”

and hostile Question Time audience.

The BNP is a small organisation dedicated to disrupting good race relations and provoking hostility towards ethnic and religious minorities.

It gained just 6.4 per cent of the votes cast in the Euro elections, so an audience which fairly represented a cross-section of public opinion would include few BNP supporters, and a large number who were hostile to the BNP and everything it stands for.

Mr Griffin’s claim that London has been “ethnically cleansed”

and is “no longer British” is ridiculous. A significant number of British people from ethnic minority backgrounds live in London, but the capital’s population is still 70 per cent white, and Britain overall is 92 per cent white.

Not white enough, apparently, for Mr Griffin, who stated in 2003: “Our absolute ideal is an all-white Britain.” He recently explained on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that the BNP no longer seeks an all-white Britain because it is “simply not do-able”.

No genuine change of heart, then – he would just love to have the power to “ethnically cleanse”

Britain of non-whites, but recognises that it would not be practical.

Pete Winstanley, Durham