“It was so unfair, you weren’t even allowed to finish a sentence”.

These sentiments came from a passenger checking in their baggage alongside Nick Griffin at London’s City Airport on Tuesday evening.

The gentleman concerned had shook the British National Party chairman’s hand and told him:

“It was one interruption after another. If it wasn’t David Dimbleby, it was one of the other four panelists, or a member of the audience. I have never seen such a politically-biased programme before.

This exchange took place at the start of a hectic 30 hours for the MEP for the North West of England as he boarded a plane for Scotland.

Later than evening he spoke at a meeting in one of Glasgow’s leading hotels where 80+ BNP members heard more about Question Time and the aftermath of the programme.

The speech went down well and nearly £1000 was raised for next month’s Glasgow North East Parliamentary by-election.

Early on Wednesday morning there were around 30 protesters outside the headquarters L107 Radio in Hamilton in Lanarkshire where Nick took part in a two hour phone-in programme. While outside police arrested three of the demonstrators for throwing eggs, inside the programme’s presenter grilled Nick on British National Party policy.

“It was a searching interview but very important because it related to current policy, not personalities or episodes from the past. There was great interest in the phone-in and plenty of support for the British National Party. The last caller said that she agreed with almost everything that I had said,” reported the British National Party chairman.

Around mid-day (above) it was off to a veterans’ charity in the town, FEBA (Forward Edge of Battle Area) which had asked the BNP for support when the Labour Party reneged on a promise of funding. A local BNP activist donated central heating equipment and £3,000.

Nick pledged to set up a support network for FEBA if it did not find the £100,000-a-year funding it needed over the next five years.

He said:
“They are doing vitally important work here and they need recognition from the Scottish Government and the necessary funding to keep going. It’s a fantastic project with a commercial canteen, gym and a drop-in area for veterans who are struggling to acclimatise back into civilian life. The centre is also working with the local community to tackle anti-social behaviour with veterans organising hill walks and camping for youngsters in Hamilton who otherwise would be hanging around street corners.”

After Hamilton it was back across the border to Blackburn, where Nick addressed a meeting in Jack Straw’s very own constituency, recounting to the 70 plus audience his visit to the veterans’ charity and the importance of working in the community to build the British National Party.

Then it was on to St Helens where well over 100 local supporters, packing out a local pub, had waited since early evening. It was a quarter to ten when the BNP leader arrived to a hero’s welcome and he spoke for nearly an hour on his Question Time experience.

In the audience was a special guest who had travelled up from London. He was a Ghanaian gentleman who had written a book on the European Union and was especially keen to meet Nick and discover his initial impressions on working in the European Parliament.

Now what would Jack Straw, Baroness Warsi, Chris Huhne and the BBC’s hand-picked Question Time audience have made of that?