Dear Chang.org Supporters, Thank you for all of your continued support and for sharing the word with many of your Facebook friends, Twitter followers and email contacts. I have received a response from the BBC which I will paste below along with my reply to this response. I have been working very hard over these last 2 days to get UKIP the voice they deserve on this "special" Question Time episode, which is why my online presence has been a little slow, but this will now pickup again. Remember if your as passionate as I am you to can make a formal complaint to the BBC just follow this link: https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?reset=#anchor Now to the response I have received from the BBC: Thank you for contacting us about ‘Question Time’ to be broadcast on 30th April 2015. I understand you are unhappy as you feel UKIP should have been invited on to this edition of the programme. I appreciate your level of concern with this considering you have taken the time to contact us about the issue and have also created an online petition. The BBC worked very closely with other major UK broadcasters to create a schedule leading up to the election and this was part of the agreement which was reached. The BBC Question Time programme with David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg is a chance for the main party leaders to discuss their policies and the decision to include these three only is based on broad assessment of electoral support. That said, as you have highlighted the BBC will be inviting UKIP to a debate between five opposition party leaders which will be moderated by David Dimbleby. On that basis, and in line with other major broadcasters, the BBC gives similar levels of coverage to the UKIP, Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives. With this coverage however comes a high degree of scrutiny. The views and policies of each party and its members, have and will be examined and challenged in depth by several senior BBC interviewers including John Humphrys on 'Today', Evan Davis on 'Newsnight' and Andrew Neil on the 'Sunday Politics.' We take our obligation to provide fair and impartial coverage very seriously and we are confident that our reporting has been balanced, proportionate and in line with our editorial and election guidelines. Rest assured your feedback is very important to us and as such I have placed your concerns on an overnight report. This is a document which is made available to senior staff, programme editors and news teams across the BBC and means your comments can be seen quickly and can be consulted in future broadcasting and policy decisions. Thanks again for getting in touch. Kind regards Now to my response: Thank you for your reply I note that you mention the decision to only include David Cameron, Ed Milliband & Nick Clegg is based on broad assessment of electoral support Your justification for only inviting David Cameron, Ed Millband & Nick Clegg is exactly the reason why I have complained. If the BBC were inviting political parties based on electoral support UKIP would be included as part of the “special” Question Time episode on 30th April – as I have mentioned UKIP won the 2014 European elections. 355,989 more than Labour, 584,086 votes more than Conservatives & 3,289,002 votes more than the Liberal Democrats whom UKIP are ahead of & have ranked 3rd in Election opinion polls from TNS-BMRB, Opinium, Populus, Ipsos Mori, YouGov & ComRes since November 2014. This proves there’s strong electoral support For UKIP & more importantly support much higher than the Liberal Democrats - who have been invited to the Question Time Episode. If anyone deserves a seat at the Question Time table on 30th April based on “electoral support” it’s UKIP who should also be invited. The significance this Question Time episode will have considering it’ll broadcast a week before the general election is unfair & bias to the interests of millions of UKIP voters & undecided voters & contradicts the way in which the invite to this episode was determined- electoral support. I ask again that the BBC involve UKIP as part of the Question Time episode on 30th April 2015 Yours sincerely I look forward to updating you all again soon and in the meantime remember to keep sharing this petition on Facebook, Twitter and email. Regards, Bill H