In a post that will infuriate many on the far right – not least of all Searchlight’s legion of online detractors – nazi party boss Alek Yerbury has publicly declared that allegations of corruption and criminality made against the far right by anti-fascists are ‘99% right’.
Yerbury is already known for his blunt attacks on most other far-right personalities whom he regularly accuses of being corrupt grifters with no principled politics. But this outburst is particularly uncompromising:
“Over the past week I’ve read pieces of propaganda by the ‘far left’, whether it’s Hope not Hate, Searchlight, even the BBC or Channel 4. There is no doubt that the ‘hit pieces’ and propaganda from these organisations has a crippling effect on many of their political enemies.
“And the reason they do, is because 99% of their propaganda is factually correct.
“The ‘hit pieces’ are overwhelmingly statements of fact as opposed to fiction.
“The grift, fraud and deception they accuse their enemies of is provable.
“The ‘smears’ in 99% of cases are actually just reality…”
Yerbury is a former soldier with a Hitler moustache and a fondness for the kind of double-breasted suits and greatcoats that the Fuhrer himself wore.
He split from Patriotic Alternative just over two years ago to form his own organisation, then called the National Support detachment.
The name was changed to the National Rebirth Party last year. It has only about 100 members and a handful of branches but it is steadily upping its public profile with town centre events most weekends, often attended by Yerbury himself.
The gloves first came off last August when Yerbury, in a thinly disguised attack on Collett and Patriotic Alternative, posted that:
The culture in nationalism for the last decade has been one of, ‘Anything goes, as long as the person says the right things,’ and it’s how the movement has ended up with problems like paedophilia, thievery and fraud…
Alex Yerbury
That didn’t go down well.
Favourite targets
Ever since leaving PA Yerbury has been steadily developing a critique of his far-right rival which seeks to sets himself and NRP apart as bastions of integrity and political principle.
He derides the PA strategy of buying property to build ‘white homelands’ but equally ridicules the Homeland Party ‘ladder strategy’ of community politics which involves the members spending their weekends clearing up dog poo in local parks.
Homeland Party leader Kenny Smith has been a favourite target, as has Steve Laws. And Yerbury reserves a particular contempt for his former comrades in PA, the organisation’s leaders Mark Collett and Laura Towler.
His most recent target is Richard Donaldson, another ex-soldier and organiser of the upcoming Great British National Protest in Dover who, Yerbury loses no opportunity to point out, is constantly appealing for money for a legal action by Dover Council that hasn’t even materialised.
Yer mom!
Donaldson responded in kind with a number of unfounded allegations about Yerbury, but rather shot himself in the foot when he claimed that Yerbury’s mum was one of the NRP’s few members. It turned out she died in 2021.
But it is upping the stakes dramatically to offer a sweeping endorsement of 99% of allegations made by Searchlight and other anti-fascists against them.
His military background has already led his far-right critics to suggest that Yerbury is a ‘state actor’ and this latest salvo will do nothing to dispel their doubts.
