Английская Википедия:Homeland Party (Britain)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox political party The Homeland Party is a British far-right nationalist political party founded by Kenny Smith.

Organisation

The Homeland Party was formed predominantly by Scottish members who abandoned the Patriotic Alternative (PA) far-right hate group. Its chairman is Isle of Skye-based Kenny Smith, who founded it in May 2023. He was previously the national administration officer for PA and the head of administration and unsuccessful political candidate of the British National Party (BNP).

The party's other registered officers also have connections with PA. Jerome O'Reilly was reportedly the Welsh regional organiser and Ant Burrows East Midlands regional organiser for the group.

The group first attempted to register as a political party in May 2023 but its application was rejected in August 2023 for being incomplete. It was registered as a political party in January 2024.

Political position

The group is described as far-right by the media, but its official website rebuts the use of the term and states its perspective on nationalism, emphasising self-determination, sovereignty and the principle of a nation-state.

Connections to neo-Nazism and terrorism

The party's nominating officer, Anthony Burrows, was revealed in court to have shared links to terrorist material. Its founding members include former national officers, regional organisers and regional officers of PA. While they were in PA, the organisation's head of fitness, Kristofer Kearney, pleaded guilty to two counts of disseminating terrorist publications. Kearney was a former host of The Absolute State of Britain (TASOB) podcast, which "has consistently featured explicit racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, veneration of Hitler, and apologism for Nazi atrocities and right-wing terrorism." A whole episode of the podcast was dedicated to interviewing Homeland's chairman Kenny Smith while he was in PA. TASOB was founded by Ashley Podsiad Sharp who was sentenced to eight years in prison for possessing a document which may be of use to a terrorist. Podsiad Sharp ran a neo-Nazi fitness club with which Homeland Party member Simon Shepherd was involved.

In April 2023, Judge Manley ruled against Alec Cave, a prominent member of the party and host for party video content, in an employment tribunal relating to comments made about actor John Boyega. 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 treasurer of Forfar Community Council, had made racist and anti-semtic comments and taken part in a neo-Nazi chat group under a pseudonym. Garden responded to The Ferret article, describing it as a "hit piece".

Later in October 2023, it was reported that party member, James Munro, had been involved in the neo-Nazi group Scottish Nationalist Society. The party responded that "Munro had been involved as a 'disenfranchised' teenager but had since 'grown up'".Шаблон:Cn

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