Very true.

not me, cause i never watch it anyway. i hate politics

I will watch and hope that he is shown up for the racist idiot that he is.

I will be interested to see if he is able to answer questions on the economy, the war in Afganistan, President Obama and if in the unlikely event he ever gets to become PM, could be work with him, and how he would deal with other issues in the world at the moment, it is frightening to think that this man actually is an MEP and therefore is making policy decisions in Brussels, which will affect us all.

I hope he is shown up for what he is and the party for what they are.

I wish Tony Benn was on that panel tonight.  He'd make sure Griffin wasn't given an easy ride.  I love listening to that man (T. Benn, not Griffin)

Thing is the few peeps I have spoken to about this 'political' party really have no sense of what their hidden agenda is, and tbh they have no interest in politics so will not be watching.  It's the ignorance of the people that vote for these criminals that will, and have become popular (minority agreed) and scarey as it is, these are the idiots they are depending on, and there are lots of idiots out there!

Baroness Warsi is ideally placed to ask, calmly and politely, why she is not British in the eyes of the BNP.  If she does it right then that ought to sink him there and then.

Mind you, it ought to sink some forum people too who think she's obliged to 'assimilate'.

you know, i'm not really into politics..not by a longshot lol! but i will watch this as i think it is important to realise that a racist (amoungst other things) party is on the up.

sadly i come across more people who are for them than against them (not necessarily voting for them, but agree with them) i'm guessing that is mainly cos the BNP have enticed many with some of their ideas..not peple dont think to look any further than that.

I'll be watching, but with many reservations about the wisdom of it happening at all. My fear is that if the audience and panelists interrogate him about his views, he can make it his defence that the whole event was evidence of, and driven by, the BBC's and the selected audience member's 'leftist' agendas and how they do not and will not debate the issues of the voters that he is there to represent.

If we are having requests then I would venture Bob Crow. No point having mealy mouthed middle class people explaining to us mealy mouthed middle class people what we already know. BNP "activists" don't target us, they target the workers.

Oh Crossy, that's inspired. Bob Crowe would be ace against him. From the bottom up!

Speak for yourself - I'm mealy mouthed working class, thanks!

I'll be watching because I always do.

I think it's the ideal platform for him to show a wider audience how disgusting both his and his party's views are.

And I'm  secretly hoping some audience members have managed to smuggle in some eggs.

I hope there is no egg throwing.  That would only give fuel to his supporters.

We have to count our lucky stars more of them didn't get in at the last election.However with the state Brown has made of this country I have a feeling there will be more elected next elections.I've seen some of their propaganda.Trouble is a lot of people believe it.
God help us then.Yes I'll be watching.

Oh dear. I don`t think Jack Straw is a good speaker. He is not fluent and often waffles.
While Baroness Warsi is rather gobby I find.

I've recorded it so I'm off to watch it in bed now to see if he made an @rse of himself as I hope the little twunt does

Yep to both, I'd say.

That bald young bloke in the suit with the glasses at the front was very indignant and rather arsey. 

They didn't let him answer any question properly.Jack Straw kept interupting him.Not a good programme at all.

Bonnie Greer was on another planet, God love her, she came across as a disapproving Aunt. She was great value with her ice age ramblings but should stick to cultural analysis.
Nobody really nailed Griffin, but his policies are such guff.

i was a bit pissed off-letting jack straw chat..the bloke who looks like he's reading from a cue card
he made nick look 'natural'
bollox lol

On the whole, I was pretty happy with that.  I can't see that he'll consider it a success.  Visually, he was sweaty, shifty, and his hands were very visibly shaking again.  Verbally, he came across as evasive and his laughter at times was quite discordant.  On the other hand, the panel wasn't particularly good and it was a little too bullying.

Jack Straw has really aged, too, which surprised me.  I haven't seen him for a while.

He got stimied when Griffin mentioned that his grandfather dodged war service (after he'd gone in to great detail about brave international soldiers) and never really recovered from that.

That made Griffin look very petty though, and to be fair Straw's grandfather was a pacifist, not a draft dodger.

He is petty, but it knocked the wind out of Straw's billowing sails.

you wanted him to be like that but he wasnt

the bloke and his policies are crap-the only person that came across good was the american bird,sat next to him

Were you watching a different programme?  His hands were shaking quite badly.  Someone else has already mentioned it here.

I didn't see it like that at all. i'm fairly sure Jack straw knew that it was coming ..........it was a pretty low (and obvious blow) - his response was quite correct - he shrugged his shoulders as much as to say .............what the hell as that got to do with anything. although not a great speaker I think JS handled himself pretty well TBH.

It's odd though.  You had to be pretty strong to be a conscientious objector during the war.  As a long-time Labour supporter, from a family of Labour activists, you'd think he'd be quite proud of their stance.

he was definately shaking, when they introduced him he looked like he was trying to hold his shit in

mind you he often looks like that.

Give him credit ......it must be pretty hard when your full of the stuff.

lol mr dan
at least youre speaking normal
not big words

Here he is, at the end of this clip ... visibly shaking and tripping over his words.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8321157.stm
The shiftiness was when asked questions about his quotes, in particular the first one about holocaust denial.

He might have been more vocal if he wasn't part of War Cabinet, currently engaged in battle fronts that are not as universally accepted as WW2 was. Fairplay to his Grandpa, but Straw had just waxed lyrical about the great sacrifices soldiers had made in 2 world wars.

I agree - it was a pretty pointless and (IMO) rather desperate argument. Criticizing Jack Straw over his family's war record is no more meaningful that Nick Griffin using his own family's record to defend himself against claims of fascist sympathies.

Fair point there.
There's someone on the Sun webpage describing Straw's grandfather as a holocaust appeaser now for refusing the draft.  Some people! 

And he had every right to do so IMO. ..............it was an important point - his fathers stance is quite irrelevant isn't it?

I thought his most inspired lie answer was the one where he claimed that he was pretending to be a racist pretending to not be a racist, in order to convince racist youngsters not to follow other racists.