Founding The Homeland Party was formed predominately 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 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 Alek Yerbury had left PA and formed a new
militant group named the National Support Detachment. Within a month, Smith also left 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
parish councillor for
Blackwell, Bolsover, 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, including
The Turner Diaries by
William Luther Pierce, and for sympathising with violence against minorities. Simon Shepherd, Homeland founding member and Scotland regional organiser and formerly a member of the PA, was involved with Ashley Podsiad-Sharp and his neo-Nazi White Stag Athletic Club (inspired by the
Active Club Network) and with PA's fascist
fitness club which was founded and headed by Kristofer Kearney and Smith. Both of them have been convicted and sentenced to prison for possessing and disseminating terrorist material. Tom Huburn-King, a Homeland founding member and its West Midlands organiser, was also associated with Kearney and the White Stag and PA fascist fitness clubs. Senior party members such as Callum Barker, Alec Cave and Smith have also been associated with the
alt-right writer
Curtis Yarvin.
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. 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." 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 ( Liam Connor), is involved in the neo-Nazi music scene
Blood & Honour. 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.
Steve Laws, the former South East organiser of the party and former member of the PA,
UK Independence Party,
English Democrats and
For Britain Movement, who made "migrant hunting" videos targeting
refugees in the UK quit Homeland in April 2025 saying it was "going soft" on its
remigration policy (the ethnic cleansing of non-white minorities).
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 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, 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. In July and August 2025, Homeland members were involved in organising local protests in
Epping, Essex, after three charges of sexual assault were brought against an asylum-seeker housed in The Bell Hotel. Other far-right groups that have attended include a former member of the
Combat 18 neo-Nazi terrorist group, some former
For Britain members, PA, a Blood & Honour member,
Britain First, the
British Democratic Party and a number of
Reform UK councillors including James Reagan. Having started on 13 July, the protests continued for some time, with the most recent occurring on 17 August. Some protests have met counter-protests by
Stand Up To Racism. There have been reports of violence, although the police reports indicate that the more recent protests have been mostly peaceful. Major Homeland organisers included Callum Barker and Andrew Piper. Piper, a
Market Deeping councillor, has made antisemitic posts online while Barker, a former PA member, posed for a photograph with a copy of the American domestic terrorist
Ted Kaczynski's manifesto,
Industrial Society and Its Future, and shared neo-Nazi content online. == Political views ==