• Capital is no longer British, says BNP leader
• No place for you here, says Boris Johnson
Nick Griffin said today he was the victim of a “lynch mob” audience drawn from a city that had been “ethnically cleansed” and was “no longer British”.
The BNP leader’s comments prompted Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, to say that there was “no place here” for Griffin or his party as he urged Londoners to reject his “extremist and offensive views”.
Fellow Question Time panelist Bonnie Greer admitted today she had to restrain herself from slapping Griffin last night, before adding she was glad she hadn’t because he was “totally trounced” on the show.
Griffin vowed to lodge a complaint at the “unfair” way the Question Time programme was produced, despite the BNP’s claims that his appearance sparked the “biggest single recruitment night in the party’s history”.
Griffin claims he was treated unfairly by the panel and audience and complained that the show, held at BBC Television Centre in London, was broadcast from a city which had changed beyond all recognition because of what he called uncontrolled immigration.
Hélène Mulholland and agencies, guardian.co.uk,
