Kenny Smith (far-right activist)

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Kenny Smith
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Chairman of the Homeland Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
May 2023
Personal details
Born
Kenneth Smith

1971or1972(age 52) [1]
Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Political party
Domestic partnerClaire Ellis [2]
Residence(s) Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland [3]

Kenneth Smith (born 1972 or 1973) is a Scottish white nationalist [4] who has held senior roles in the British National Party and Patriotic Alternative and who founded the Homeland Party.

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He has worked as a part-time sports coach and in the tourism industry in the Isle of Skye.

Politics and views

Smith is a far-right activist who wants the United Kingdom to be an "ethnostate." [5]

Smith became active in politics when he went to a British National Party meeting in Glasgow in 1991. [5] During his membership of the BNP, he ran as a political candidate, [6] [7] winning 135 votes (0.9% of the 15,496 votes) in the Springburn district in the 2007 Glasgow City Council election. [8] He distributed British National Party flyers at an anti-abortion event led by Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party in Stornoway in 1998. [5] Smith became the head of administration for the BNP. [9]

In 2008, Smith was one of several people sued by British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin after Smith was ejected by the BNP and started the enoughisenoughnick blog. [10] Other defendants included his now ex-wife Nicholla Smith. [10] Until then Nicholla was the BNP organiser for Falkirk and Kenny was the Scottish regional organiser and head of administration. [10]

After being ejected from the British National Party, [10] Smith joined the Patriotic Alternative and became the group's Scottish organiser [11] in March 2023. [12] Smith disagreed with the leadership of Patriotic Alternative, left the organisation, and founded the Homeland Party. [13]

Smith runs Claymore Books, which has been described by Patriotic Alternative as a "publishing house run by nationalists for the nationalist community". [14]

Career and personal life

Smith is from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland [15] and was born in 1972or1973. [5]

Smith has worked as a part-time children's sport coach and the manager of tourist accommodation on the Isle of Skye. [5]

In 2022, Smith pled guilty at the Portree Sheriff Court to breaches of the Firearms Act 1968 and received an admonition. [16] Smith lives in Broadford, Skye. [16]

Smith is engaged to Claire Ellis, a native of Slough who was an organiser for Patriotic Alternative's southwest branch while she was in Devon. [17] In May 2022, Ellis said she would move to Scotland so she could "start a new life" with Smith. [17] They were engaged at a Patriotic Alternative conference in Scotland later that year. [17] According to The Herald , Ellis and far-right streamer Jody Swingler are founders of a Skye-based soap company, Clean & Pure, with white nationalist links. [17] [14]

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