YouTube has paid a neo-Nazi thousands of pounds and taken a cut of the money in a new revenue-generating scheme, it can be revealed.

Mark Collett, a former British National Party (BNP) official who has praised Adolf Hitler, called refugees “cockroaches” and been arrested for inciting racial hatred, is one of several far-right internet figures to profit from a service called Super Chat.

According to the Google-owned website, Super Chat lets fans pay for their comments to appear prominently in the “live chat” next to popular bloggers’ videos. Most of the money goes to the blogger, but YouTube takes an estimated 30%.

Collett, left, with ex-BNP leader Nick Griffin, centre OWEN HUMPHREYS/PA

Collett, 37, rose to prominence as the chairman of Young BNP when he was filmed in an undercover documentary saying: “Hitler will live