Nick Griffin egged in Parliament Square

As much as I love a good egging, I thought it made the BNP's critics look a little piteous.

It always looks bad when you stymie what someone has to say and pelt them with eggs rather than challenge their ideas.

The BNP can appear to walk away from this as a victim.

Censorship of a view, however you deliver it, is not good for politics.

The problem is Tynan, the guys that did vote for them are racist, they blame all the problems in their life on other people usually whichever ethnic group they don't like or have been in the press the most in the last few months, It used to be Pakistanis and now the Polish. I have four step siblings which are like this and I used to play pool with guys like this on a tuesday night. I know the type.

I specifically remember the guy driving us (who bragged about his theiving antics), telling me that immigrants should have to pay for their education of their children and that they are stealing by not paying ... I told him that the government doesn't make them pay and I wouldn't expect that he would pay for something when he didn't have to. Apparently they were still directly stealing his money.

My other favourite is "stealing our jobs" argument ... like there are polist people (the lastest stealing our jobs scapegoat) ram-raiding the job agency.

Sensible debate doesn't come into it with these people, they won't listen and they don't want to. I am guilty of similar, to a lesser degree.