The Homeland
Party is a far-right political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded as a
splinter of the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative in April 2023 by Kenny
Smith, and registered as a party in January 2024.[14] A part of the British
fascist movement, it has been described as the largest fascist group in the UK.
History
Founding
The Homeland
Party was formed predominantly by Scottish members who had left the neo-Nazi
group Patriotic Alternative (PA) over differences stemming from strict member
verification and political ambitions of electoral politics through a registered
party championed by Kenny Smith. PA and Homeland are ideologically similar and
ideological differences were not a reason for the split.Smith, the chairman of
Homeland, founded the party in April 2023. Smith was previously the national
administration officer for PA, and the head of administration and an
unsuccessful electoral candidate for the fascist British National Party (BNP).According
to Searchlight, in 2023 Smith left PA and formed Homeland, attracting many
members of PA to join. Homeland espouses the white genocide conspiracy theory
and other far-right beliefs such as remigration, although it publicly uses
innocuous messaging and downplays its neo-Nazi connections.
Other links
The party's
other registered officers also have connections with PA. Jerome O'Reilly is the
Welsh regional organiser and Anthony Burrows is the East Midlands regional
organiser.Burrows, a Blackwell, Bolsover parish councillor from Alfreton in
Derbyshire, has posted photographs of Adolf Hitler and David Duke, the former
leader of the Ku Klux Klan, on his Twitter account and had his shotguns
confiscated and a gun licence refused for sharing terrorist literature and
manifestos and for sympathising with violence against minorities.Simon
Shepherd, another Homeland founding member and formerly a member of the PA, was
involved with Ashley Podsiad-Sharp and his neo-Nazi White Stag Athletic Club
and with PA's fascist fitness club which was founded and headed by Kristofer
Kearney and Smith. Podsiad-Sharp and Kearney hosted The Absolute State of
Britain podcast, founded by Sharp, which "has consistently featured
explicit racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, veneration of
Hitler, and apologism for Nazi atrocities and right-wing terrorism." Both
of them have been convicted and sentenced to prison for possessing and
disseminating terrorist material.
Registration
The group
first attempted to register as a political party in May 2023, but its
application was rejected. Complaints were raised by the Home Office to the
Electoral Commission after a leaked audio of Smith which detailed a plan that
Homeland might try to register under fake or proxy names for the party and its
officers to hide its connections with known white supremacists. It was
registered as a political party in January 2024, which PA had failed to do seven
times due to internal party rules that violated British equality and
anti-discrimination laws.
Noteworthy
members
In April
2023 Judge Isabel Manley ruled against Alec Cave, a senior member of the party,
in an employment tribunal relating to comments made by him about the actor John
Boyega, who is a Black Briton.In her ruling Judge Manley said of Cave's views,
"This is not just a belief that is shocking, offensive or disturbing to
others, though it may well be all those things. It is a belief that, in at
least some respects, is akin to Nazism."
In October
2023 it was reported that David Gardner, a member of the party and the
treasurer of the community council of Forfar, had made racist and antisemitic
comments and had taken part in a neo-Nazi Telegram channel under the pseudonym
"Gordon Freeman", along with other Homeland activists. Later in
October 2023 it was reported that James Munro, Jordon Murphy and Robert Bisset,
members of the party, had been involved in the neo-Nazi group Scottish
Nationalist Society. Another Homeland activist, Liam Hart (a.k.a. Liam Connor),
is involved in the neo-Nazi music scene Blood & Honour.
In 2024
Homeland began to recruit fascist social media influencers, including "You
Kipper", a propagandist for the British fascist politician Oswald Mosley,
and the Nazi-apologist YouTuber Sam Wilkes (a.k.a. Zoomer Historian) a follower
of the Holocaust-denier David Irving. In March of the same year Jamie Brown,
Invergowrie and Kingoodie community council chairman and a Homeland member, was
revealed to have made numerous antisemitic statements and slurs.
Activities
In September
2024 the Homeland Party held its annual conference in Derbyshire with guest
speakers from the far-right European parties Alternative for Germany (AfD) and
the Polish Confederation Liberty and Independence, which was met with a protest
outside after it was publicised by the anti-fascist group Red Flare.
In October
2024 Homeland merged with Identity England, a small English branch of the
far-right Identitarian movement.
In March
2025 senior members of the Homeland Party travelled to Germany. Whilst there
they sent a delegation to the Bundestag, were hosted by AfD and received media
training from them.
In April
2025 the party held its "Big Remigration Conference". The speakers
included the French conspiracy theorist and novelist Renaud Camus (who
originated the Great Replacement conspiracy theory) and Lena Kotré [de], an AfD
member of the Landtag of Brandenburg.[Camus was denied entry to Britain by the
Home Office, which said his presence would not be "conducive to the public
good"; he appeared at the conference via a video link.
Political
position
The Homeland
Party supports a policy of remigration, a European far-right concept of ethnic
cleansing via the deportation of non-white minorities. In November 2024 it published an
expanded policy proposal titled Immigration & Remigration, detailing
specific measures to be taken to both cease and reverse immigration to the
British Isles. In April 2025 The Telegraph described the party as
"nationalist and anti-immigration", highlighting one of its policies
of "the re-migration, or encouraged mass emigration, of unintegrated and
illegal migrants."
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