Nick Griffin has a solidly upper-middle-class background, so he's not much like the cartoon character.

When he started his career, I was pretty sure that both he and his pal Patrick Harrington were plants from one of the intelligence agencies. The fascist parties they belonged to had an uncanny knack of flushing themselves down the toilet of history shortly after they joined. Subsequent events suggest I was wrong about Griffin - he's kept at it far too long and determinedly - but it's hard to see any other explanation of Harrington that makes sense.