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Kenny Smith (activist)

Scottish far-right white nationalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ118918044 ↗
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Kenneth Smith (born 1971 or 1972) 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.

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. During his membership of the BNP, he ran as a political candidate, winning 135 votes (0.9% of the 15,496 votes) in the Springburn district in the 2007 Glasgow City Council election. He distributed British National Party flyers at an anti-abortion event led by Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party in Stornoway in 1998. Smith became the head of administration for the BNP.

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. Other defendants included his now ex-wife Nicholla Smith. Until then Nicholla was the BNP organiser for Falkirk and Kenny was the Scottish regional organiser and head of administration.

After being ejected from the British National Party, Smith joined the Patriotic Alternative and became the group's Scottish organiser during the late 2010s. In April 2023, Smith disagreed with the leadership of Patriotic Alternative, left the organisation, and founded the Homeland Party.

Smith runs Claymore Books, which has been described by Patriotic Alternative as a "publishing house run by nationalists for the nationalist community".

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This entry incorporates text from “Kenny Smith (activist)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.