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Livingstone said that, short of being forced by a court to give the BNP a platform, the BBC should have applied different standards than to other minority parties because of the violence triggered by the far right. "They should wait for a judge to order it to because if anyone is hurt tonight the BBC will bear moral responsibility for that" Livingstone told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, adding that he felt that the broadcaster had "lost its moral compass". Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
They should wait for a judge to order it to because if anyone is hurt tonight the BBC will bear moral responsibility for that
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You all sit there in a comfortable world ... but for the young Muslim walking past a group of racists who have been inflamed by what they hear he gets a kicking.
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It was a decision of the BBC. We are not trying to interfere with the decision of the BBC.
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If on Question Time, they are asked about their racist and bigoted views that are damaging to good community relations, it will be a good opportunity to expose what they are about.
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The BBC know they have made a mistake, and as usual they have made the wrong judgment call. I have some sympathy with them as there are a number of enemies of the BBC so they are damned if they do and damned if they don't but they have made the wrong call again.
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That is the unique difference
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The issue is: should we have someone there? Jack Straw is a very experienced person who has had to deal with the BNP and their awful politics over a period of time... I hope that the exposure of the BNP will make people see what they are really like.
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