Rachel Maddow’s sombre, sobering segment says it all.

The British National Party under Nick Griffin has won two seats to the European parliament, engaged in stinging public criticism of British immigration policy, the place of people of South Asian, African and Caribbean ancestries in the UK’s population, and opposition to gay and lesbian rights. Just round things out, Griffin carries a history of strident Holocaust denial as well. Most recently, the BNP has been ordered by a British court to allow “non-aboriginal” British citizens to join the BNP. With all this as background, the BBC agreed to let British National Party head Nick Griffin explain himself and his party on its premier late evening public affairs program, Question Time.