Kenny Smith | |
|---|---|
 Smith in 2023 | |
| Chairman of theHomeland Party | |
| Assumed office May 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kenneth Smith 1971 or 1972 (age 53–54)[1] |
| Party | Homeland (since 2023) |
| Other political affiliations |
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| Domestic partner | Claire Ellis[2] |
| Residence(s) | Isle of Skye,Highland, Scotland[3] |
Kenneth Smith (born 1972 or 1973) is a Scottishfar-right activist who held senior roles in the fascistBritish National Party (BNP) andneo-NaziPatriotic Alternative (PA), before founding thewhite-nationalistHomeland Party in 2023 after splitting-off from PA.[4]
He has worked as a part-time sports coach and in the tourism industry in theIsle of Skye.
Smith became active in politics when he went to a British National Party meeting inGlasgow 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 theSpringburn district in the2007 Glasgow City Council election.[8] He distributed British National Party flyers at an anti-abortion event led byIan Paisley of theDemocratic Unionist Party inStornoway 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) leaderNick Griffin after Smith was ejected by the BNP and started theenoughisenoughnick blog.[10] Other defendants included his now ex-wife Nicholla Smith.[10] Until then Nicholla was the BNP organiser forFalkirk and Kenny was the Scottish regional organiser and head of administration.[10]
After being ejected from the British National Party,[10] Smith joined thePatriotic 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 theHomeland 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'sThe Absolute State of Britain (TASOB) podcast, founded by Sharp, which "has consistently featured explicitracism,misogyny,anti-Semitism,Holocaust denial, veneration of Hitler, and apologism for Nazi atrocities andright-wing terrorism."[17] Both Kearney and Podsiad-Sharp have been convicted and sentenced to prison for possessing and disseminating terrorist material.[18][19]
Smith is from theIsle 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 theIsle of Skye.[5]
In 2022, Smith pled guilty at thePortree Sheriff Court to breaches of theFirearms Act 1968 and received anadmonition.[21] Smith lives inBroadford, 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 toThe Herald, Ellis and far-right streamer Jody Swingler are founders of a Skye-based soap company, Clean & Pure, with white nationalist links.[22][14]
