A third of Britons believe Family Guy's Peter Griffin is the leader of the British National Party, a study has found.

One in three members of the public matched a picture of Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, with the name of Peter Griffin, star of the cartoon sitcom. The survey of 1,498 people also found more were able to identify Alex Reid, the new husband of Katie Price, than recognised Gordon Brown.

The survey, by the money-saving website MyVoucherCodes, also showed that 41% of people identified a photograph of Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, as the Dragons' Den entrepreneur Peter Jones. And Katia Ivanova, the former girlfriend of Ronnie Wood, proved more recognisable than a number of leading politicians.

Mark Pearson, managing director of the money-saving website, said: "The fact that Katia Ivanova, who is famous for having slept with a Rolling Stone, is better known that Jack Straw and Alan Johnson put together is indicative of the fact that the public are heavily influenced by the media. "It isn't for us to judge whether or not this is right or wrong, but put forward the facts: one of which being that a third of people think that Peter Griffin is the leader of the BNP."

I think the sadly missed Linda Smith summed it up best... "I don't want to give them the oxygen of publicity. I don't even want to give them the oxygen of oxygen."

The dream ticket!

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