BNP's Nick Griffin on Question Time
Updated on 23 October 2009
The BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time provoked a storm of controversy. We look at some of the answers he gave.
Fascism: "I am not a Nazi and never have been. I am the most loathed man in Britain in the eyes of Britain's Nazis.
"They loathe me because I have brought the British National Party from being, frankly, an anti-Semitic and racist organisation into being the only political party which, in the clashes between Israel and Gaza, stood full square behind Israel's right to deal with Hamas terrorists."
Immigration: "We have said it is time to shut the door because this country is overcrowded, that criminals, bogus asylum seekers and people who are not loyal to this country should be deported. Everyone else can stay."
Wartime imagery: "If Churchill was alive he would belong to the BNP."
Homosexuality: Griffin was heckled and called a "disgrace" by members of the audience as he said he found homosexuality "creepy".
Griffin claimed he is frequently misquoted by the media and he would agree that he was a "monster" if everything written about him was true.
He said: "Those things are outrageous lies."
Asked which of the quotes in media reports were lies, he said: "The vast majority of them, far too many to go in to."
Question Time chairman David Dimbleby repeatedly asked Mr Griffin which of his quotes on race, mixed marriages and Islam were wrong and suggested that the BNP leader could not deny saying them.
Griffin did deny saying black people walked like monkeys.
