Kenny Smith (far-right activist)

For other people named Kenny Smith, see Kenny Smith (disambiguation).

Kenneth Smith (born 1972 or 1973) is a Scottish far-right activist who held senior roles in the fascist British National Party (BNP) and neo-Nazi Patriotic Alternative (PA), before founding the white-nationalist Homeland Party in 2023 after splitting-off from PA.^[4]

Kenny Smith
Chairman of the Homeland Party
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2023
Personal details
Born	Kenneth Smith 1971 or 1972 (age 52–53)[1] Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Political party	Homeland (since 2023)
Other political affiliations	BNP (1991–2007)
Domestic partner	Claire Ellis[2]
Residence(s)	Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland[3]

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

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 fascist 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 1972 or 1973.^[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]