Politics and views
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 during the late 2010s. [11] In April 2023, Smith disagreed with the leadership of Patriotic Alternative, left the organisation, and founded the Homeland Party. [12] [13]
Smith runs Claymore Books, which has been described by Patriotic Alternative as a "publishing house run by nationalists for the nationalist community". [14]
Smith founded Patriotic Alternative's fitness club with Kristofer Kearney, [15] [16] and has appeared on Kearney and Ashley Podsiad-Sharp's The Absolute State of Britain (TASOB) 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." [17] Both Kearney and Podsiad-Sharp have been convicted and sentenced to prison for possessing and disseminating terrorist material. [18] [19]
Career and personal life
Smith is from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland [20] 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. [21] Smith lives in Broadford, Skye. [21]
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. [22] In May 2022, Ellis said she would move to Scotland so she could "start a new life" with Smith. [22] They were engaged at a Patriotic Alternative conference in Scotland later that year. [22] 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. [22] [14]
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