They certainly attract more attention than UKIP. News of Nick Griffin's visit to Hastings has been met with unprecedented public response.
Since last Friday, when we revealed the controversial politician was coming to Hollington, the number of visitors to our website (
Hastings Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More) has gone through the roof.
In the last week the top six most read stories on our site have all been about the British National Party with the number one story receiving more than 5,500 hits - five times more than the top story would normally get.
Our online poll, Is Nick Griffin welcome in Hastings?, attracted more than 8,000 votes and the eight stories we have had online covering the subject have had 196 reader comments left on them.
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The media realise that if they run a BNP story it will attract substantial web hits for their Newspaper.