Some British fascists (though far fewer than in past years) are putting out election leaflets for their tiny numbers of local council candidates, and making sure they advertise their activism on social media. Others are jetting round Europe to “Remigration” conferences with fellow bigots.

But one question is on all their minds. Where’s Kenny?

For a couple of years until mid-2025, former BNP organiser Kenny Smith was the self-appointed Duce of “sensible nationalism”. His bald pate and portly frame often squeezed into Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Telegram frames while he promoted his Homeland Party as the fastest growing force on Britain’s far right.

All gone silent

Now it’s all gone quiet. No social media posts since early March. Public appearances have gone out the window. Branch activities are rare and Homeland chat groups have fallen silent. So what’s happened?

Kenny brought together a broad team. The old nazis and Holocaust deniers from Heritage & Destiny, online whizzkids like Steve Laws and Sam ‘Zoomer Historian’ Wilkes, pro-Russians from Germany as well as pro-Ukrainians from Poland, Hitlerites and populists, antisemites and anti-Islamists.

His finest hour was just over a year ago in April 2025 when Homeland’s star guest Renaud Camus – an elderly French Islamophobe who coined the term “Great Replacement” – was excluded from the UK by the Home Secretary. Kenny and friends at last had their moment in the spotlight, even though his greatest success was simultaneously his greatest failure.

Collapse begins

It took only a few weeks for Homeland’s collapse to begin. For Kenny Smith’s generation it seemed “sensible” to move away from the homophobia that has characterised British fascist circles. What he failed to realise is that homophobia (as well as misogyny) is back in fashion among younger far right fanatics, influenced by American online culture.

A row over Smith’s approval of a gay Homeland organiser in Northern Ireland triggered the latest of many splits last summer and autumn.

Former comrades

Some of Kenny’s former comrades are now in the British Democrats, some in Alek Yerbury’s National Rebirth Party, some hanging around outside Rupert Lowe’s mansion hoping to be given a few scraps from the great man’s table.

One or two ex-Homeland “radicals” such as former treasurer Jerome O’Reilly and former West Midlands regional organiser Connor Marlow haven’t joined anything and prefer to lurk on X criticising everyone else.

While on the opposite “reactionary” wing, the eccentric ex-UKIPper Pete North seems keener on a return to Kemi Badenoch’s Tories.

Recently things have gone from bad to worse, with some of Kenny’s remaining loyalists seeming to desert him.

South West regional organiser Mike Lynton was supposedly pro-Kenny, but was recently seen attending a National Rebirth Party conference with the decidedly non-sensible Alek Yerbury. Is there a merger in the offing?

Unkind rivals have speculated that Kenny Smith has gone from “sensible” to insensible and that his longstanding fondness for alcohol might be contributing to his unaccustomed silence. Others suggest that Scottish regional organiser Simon Crane is going to ally with treasurer Daniel Gale in a last-ditch effort to rescue what’s left of Homeland.

Another mysteriously absent party official previously loyal to Smith is Alec Cave (alias Wesley Russell). Cave was among the faction that joined Smith in splitting from Mark Collett’s Patriotic Alternative in 2023.

No candidates

One of the reasons for this split was supposedly that Homelanders wanted to be a real political party standing in elections. They had finally worked out that Collett had no intention of registering with the Electoral Commission, because he didn’t want oversight of PA’s overseas donations and bank accounts (including cryptocurrency).

Yet in this year’s local council, Scottish Parliament, and Welsh Senedd elections the list of Homeland candidates adds up to precisely zero. No wonder Kenny Smith has gone into hiding.

The one thing Homeland was always good for was an overseas jolly to some remigration conference or other. Berlin, Milan, Paris: no European city was safe from Kenny Smith’s expense account. Has someone turned off the tap, or has the leader’s liver become the latest rebel?

The end of the month sees this year’s Remigration summit in Portugal. The question is whether Kenny will be there to represent Homeland as usual. And if not, why not…?

All we know for sure is that Kenny Smith’s many enemies, from PA to Restore Britain, are gloating. After the May elections, we expect another reshuffling of the British nazi pack.