We said only recently that the problem with nazis trying to be respectable is that they just can’t keep their true beliefs buttoned down for very long. Then, we were talking about antisemitic remarks at last month’s Homeland Party conference. Now, another Homeland member has got himself into trouble by shooting his mouth off online. […]
Local elections 2025 – Farage surges and far right turn on Homeland
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won control of at least seven councils in this week’s local elections. A party that often relies on dog-whistle racism and xenophobia will now try to control large swathes of England. These results make grim reading for anti-fascists and are an indictment of both Tory opportunism and Labour cowardice. Indulging […]
Homeland – where ‘sensible nationalism’ meets sniggery antisemitism
Last weekend’s Homeland Party Remigration Conference was predictable in many ways. The party of ‘sensible nationalism’ ordered its (male) troops to turn up in suits and ties and a good behaviour injunction was observed even when a small group of anti-fascists turned up outside the venue in Bourne, Lincolnshire. Well, most of the time, that […]
Nick Griffin launches new ‘Christian’ party
Failed BNP führer and twice-bankrupted Nick Griffin chose Easter Sunday to launch his latest political party. That might seem strange timing. England is just ten days away from county council elections, when real political parties are competing at the ballot box. However, Easter Sunday this year also happened fall on a date celebrated by nazis […]
Homeland Party – the anatomy of a split
The great Homeland Party split (reported by Searchlight as it unfolded during the Easter weekend) has hardened within the past 24 hours. 2025 is starting to look very much like 1980. After the 1979 general election setback, the National Front split in several directions, then split again in 1983-4, and again in 1986-7. Four way […]
Crisis in Homeland Party as leading figure quits
Steve Laws, one of the leading and most high-profile members of the Homeland Party, has resigned from the party in protest following the appointment of a controversial figure as the party’s Northern Ireland Organiser. But he has launched a much wider attack on the leadership which reflects a deeper split in the party. Laws was […]