Should the minority parties also be given the chance to be heard?

[anotheoldgit]

/// "The only result of this directive from Mark Byford and the rest of the overpaid detached senior management is that listeners will simply switch off in droves.///

/// In addition to the Today Programme slot, the minority parties, including the BNP, will be given air time immediately after the debate on BBC One's News at Ten as well as on Newsnight on BBC Two – both of which will inevitably attract large audiences. ///

"listeners will simply switch off in droves".

"Both of which will inevitably attract large audiences"

Now which is true? I suspect it will be the latter. Why shouldn't the minority parties be given a platform?

[Gromit]

It will be very enlightening to hear the views of the Green Party after these debates.

Any suggestion that this might be very dull for the viewer/listener or that it is pandering to 'one issue' parties is surely clap-trap.

There are many millions in the country who will want to hear the Greens, and this directive means they will have to be represented during the election.

[modeller]

Anyone can make a party. You could have party of say 6 members, you and your family.
Should they be given the chance to vote ? Where would you draw the line ?
How about the AOG party ?

[rov1200]

You know when these minor parties have someting important to say when the major parties go out of there way to castigate it.

That is especially true when it comes to immigration. You would think the Labour or Tory spokesmen had a vested interest in making this country black and full of foreign customs.

[olddutch]

In the interests of fairness, information and democracy, all parties including UKIP,the Green Party,and the BNP should be included in the televised debates.To accommodate this there should be more debates and longer debates than already arranged so that the full spectrum of each partys policies can reasonably fully heard and compared by the voting public.But something tells me it aint ever gonna happen !