For a chain, Gaucho is startlingly expensive, the final bill ending up pretty close to one from much more stylish, individual restaurants
Boris Johnson's deputy faces damaging new allegations that he misled the public by claiming to be a magistrate
More...
BNP's website 'the most popular in politics'
Last updated at 01:52am on 19.02.08
Nick Griffin of the BNP. The far-Right party has the UK's most visited political website
The British National Party has the UK's most visited political website, a study shows.
The far-Right group received 51 per cent of all hits to party sites last year - seven times more than the online pages run by Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
It was also twice as popular as the Conservatives' main website.
The report, for the Centre for Policy Studies, claims the site has flourished because it allows visitors to leave messages and interact with one another.
Robert Colvile, who wrote the study, Politics, Policy and the Internet, says mainstream parties' websites suffer from a "failure of imagination".
"Although each of the major political parties has a solid online presence, none has really taken the internet by storm," he writes.
"Their websites remain a source of information rather than an online home for party members, activists and members of the public.
"This gap has been eagerly exploited."
But Robin Goad, of Hitwise, the online monitoring service which provided the figures, claims most visitors to the BNP site were "curious" rather than party supporters.
"Visits to a website are not the same as votes in an election," he added.
Reader views (16)
Here's a sample of the latest views published. You can click view all to read all views that readers have sent in.
The BNP panders to the illiterate and the confused, they are the people that should be deported.
- Daveb, london
I don't think this site is being visited out of curiosity. I think the people of this country have had enough of ridiculous political correctness and a government that bends over backwards to help visitors and immigrants to our land, yet ignores the needs and opinions of the people who come from this beautiful country. I'm all for tolerance and welcoming others to our country, but not at the expense of my own faith, culture and beliefs.
- Kathy, London
I would not say they are far right, to say so you would have to then acknowledge that Labour are far left.
- Brandon Thomas, London UK
13°c
17°c
