{"id":15526,"date":"2009-10-19T11:48:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T09:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15526"},"modified":"2011-09-02T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T09:19:10","slug":"bnp-debate-illegal-hain-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/19\/bnp-debate-illegal-hain-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"BNP debate &#8216;illegal&#8217;, Hain warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/A4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/>Cabinet minister Peter Hain has warned the BBC that it could face legal action unless it scraps the controversial appearance of far-right MEP Nick Griffin on Question Time.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Hain has written to BBC director general Mark Thompson demanding he suspend the &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; inclusion of the British National Party leader on the flagship political debate show.<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh Secretary argued that the BNP was at present &#8220;an unlawful body&#8221; after the party told a court last week it would amend its whites-only membership rules to meet discrimination legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission had issued county court proceedings over concerns the membership criteria were restrictive to those within certain ethnic groups.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Griffin is due to appear on Thursday&#8217;s edition of Question Time alongside Justice Secretary Jack Straw, representatives of the other main parties and black writer Bonnie Greer.<\/p>\n<p>But in his letter, Mr Hain said: &#8220;If you do not review the decision you may run the very serious risk of legal challenge in addition to the moral objections that I make. In my view, your approach is unreasonable, irrational and unlawful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/itn.co.uk\/4dedec85b984ac3151a59ed2fb027e5c.html\">ITN<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cabinet minister Peter Hain has warned the BBC that it could face legal action unless it scraps the controversial appearance of far-right MEP Nick Griffin on Question Time. Peter Hain has written to BBC director general Mark Thompson demanding he suspend the &#8220;abhorrent&#8221; inclusion of the British National Party leader on the flagship political debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":15528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,94,922],"tags":[788,1467,2282,2281,2283],"class_list":["post-15526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","category-uk","category-world","tag-bbc","tag-bnp","tag-cabinet-minister-peter-hain","tag-illegal","tag-mep-nick-griffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}