The Beeb says any legally constituted political party is entitled to have its ideas discussed. The BNP’s sole idea is that the country should be run entirely on racial lines. So Question Time for the BBC: what the hell are you playing at that this should be entertained as a subject for discussion?
The BNP is not nor ever will be a normal party and the BBC should stop pretending it is. The BNP wants to ethnically cleanse the UK. This is not something that needs to be legitimised. And no, this is no an infringement of their freedom of speech:
The final faulty assumption, the one that is least convincing in my view, is that depriving the BNP of a platform constitutes an abridgment of their ‘free speech’. By no understanding of free speech that I am aware of is any person obliged to share a platform with a fascist organisation, or to offer one to its spokespersons. In fact, in recognition of the demonstrable threat that the far right poses to even minimal democratic norms of free expression, we actually have an obligation to frustrate the BNP, to obstruct their growth, prevent them from organising, and so on. But the ‘No Platform’ policy doesn’t even go that far: it clearly just asks people not to assist the BNP. It is only good manners.