the programme format doesn't fit a real in depth approach, so he was always going to be able to try and bluster his way through. It would be really good to see him in a one on one interview with Paxman or Marr... or Greer based on last night, she seemed to have his number pretty well last night.

I think it was pretty much "job done" though - I can't imagine it has left any BNP members rethinking their choices but it made Griffin appear smug, not overly bright and shifty. It also made it clear that he is anti-pretty much everyone who isn't a white, hetrosexual Christian of long standing British descent (would like to have seen Greer given time to really get at him over his claim about the population who have been here since the ice age - erm, not Anglo-Saxon then? Or Norman? Or Viking? etc).

All in all, it wasn't the best Question Time ever by any means (it is always best with at least a couple of non-politicians one, should have got Hislop on the programme) but I think it did a very good job of showing up that Griffin's pretensions of being a serious politician leading a viable alternative to the current main stream parties is a pipe dream. I think that was the reasonable expectation, that it would put a nice size dent in the BNP's attempt to seem a reasonable party and it did it.