Mein Kampf, UFOs and Fascist Fitness: this is the latest in a series of articles investigating the Homeland Party’s core activists, following our exposés of its branches in the West Midlands, Eastern and South East England and Scotland.
The Homeland Party is a fascist microparty that splintered from Patriotic Alternative (PA), the UK’s most active neo-Nazi group, in April 2023.
Homeland attempts to launder its public image and to get its activists co-opted into parish, town and community councils, the lowest tier of local government. The party hopes to use such positions — which can often be entered practically unopposed — to build local support over time, adapting the “ladder strategy” previously forwarded by the National Front and British National Party.
Contrary to the respectable image the group wishes to project, prominent activists have praised the Third Reich, made Nazi salutes and celebrated far-right terrorists.
PA’s well-established East Midlands branch was torn apart in April 2023, when Regional Organiser Anthony Burrows led a group of activists to defect to Homeland. Despite being overshadowed by its neighbouring region to the West, the East Midlands remains one of Homeland’s stronger areas, home to two of the group’s nine parish councillors and set to host its national conference on 28 September.
Here are some of the branch’s key figures.
Anthony Burrows, from Alfreton in Derbyshire, is Homeland’s Nominating Officer and one of the party’s three key figures nationally, despite being a reliable source of bad press for the group.
A former UKIP and Brexit Party activist, Burrows launched a YouTube channel in October 2019 under the pseudonym “Anglofolk”, using the outlet to recite poetry and Oswald Mosley speeches to his nanoscopic audience.
Burrows joined PA in September 2020, claiming that he was “fully onboard with the 14 words [a white supremacist slogan]. My studies range between the works Nigel Farage and Julius Evola”, referencing the extreme Italian philosopher and self-described “super fascist”. Burrows soon rose to the position of East Midlands Regional Organiser.
While Homeland attempts to conceal its extremism, Burrows was far less cautious when he first joined PA. For example, he took to the PA East Midlands internal chat group to write:
“In my more white pilled moments i imagine building a community somewhere nice, building a border wall, then we all stop paying taxes 😁 […] No planning, like Albert Dryden but with back up 👍”
Telegram, 21 September 2020
Burrows then posted a picture of Albert Dryden with the words “This is the chap”. Dryden was a convicted murderer who shot a planning officer dead and wounded a police officer and journalist on live television in County Durham, 1991.
Burrows has also repeatedly promoted the works of the infamous American neo-Nazi William Pierce, writing in the same group:
“The world starts to seem like a prequel to the Turner Diaries more and more”
Telegram, 23 October 2020
The Turner Diaries, written by Pierce, is a highly violent white supremacist fantasy that depicts a race war between a white militant underground and the Jewish-controlled US government and their black enforcers. The book has inspired numerous terrorists, including the Oklahoma City bomber, who killed 168 people using a truck bomb similar to one detailed in the book, and the London nail bomber.
Burrows went on to encourage others members of the PA East Midlands chat to “Download the audiobook” version of Pierce’s book, writing:
“it’s even more entertaining when the author reads aloud lines such as ‘he smashed her over the head with a jar of kosher pickles’”
Telegram, 23 October 2020
He then gave the details of a free download and recommended using a VPN to avoid “attention from the alphabet people [intelligence agencies]”.
He also claimed via his now-deleted Twitter account that:
“the fastest way to learn about the tiny hat tribe [Jewish people] is by listening to old recordings of Dr William Luther Pierce.”
Twitter, 12 October 2020
The same month, the future Homeland strategist referred to Hitler as “uncle Adolf” and wrote:
“I think there is an attraction to the *supreme* man of action
There are startling parralels [sic] between Britain today & the Wiermar [sic] Republic that Hitler fought tooth & nail to overthrow
I recommend Mein Kampf, the Ford translation audiobook for further understanding on this matter”
Twitter, 14 October 2020
Burrows claimed that he knew “Comrades, the Voices” — the anthem of the interwar British Union of Fascists — “off by heart; I have it on in the car”.
He elsewhere claimed that he disagreed with military service as he would not “fight for ZOG” (ZOG is short for “Zionist Occupied Government”, neo-Nazi shorthand for a supposed Jewish conspiracy):
In the same stream, he fantasised about what he would do if he were in power:
Like many former and current PA members, Burrows was also active in fascist fitness clubs, encouraging others to join a group run by Kris Kearney (AKA Charlie Big Potatoes), a former member of the nazi terror group National Action who has since been imprisoned for terror-related offences.
During this time, Burrows ran the “Practical Nationalism” project, offering advice on privacy and security to his fellow extremists before he was outed by anti-fascists in August 2021. Burrows subsequently lost his shotgun licence and had three guns seized from his home.
His appeal was dismissed in 2023, the court hearing that he had posted images of Hitler and the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on Twitter after being asked to “describe your politics with four people”. The judge said:
“[Burrows] demonstrated views that were sympathetic towards violence aimed at non-white ethnic or religious groups, and his reckless provision of links to potential terrorist manifestos and literature were such that he was a danger to the peace.”
Burrows left PA for Homeland in April 2023, gaining a seat on Blackwell parish council in Bolsover district, Derbyshire. He is scheduled to address the group’s national conference this Saturday.
Andrew Piper, an electrician turned self-styled “mindset coach” from Glinton near Peterborough, joined Homeland this March. He quickly threw himself into frontline activism, including hosting the group’s online discussions on X and getting co-opted onto Market Deeping Town council in June.
Since early 2021, Piper had been embedded in the conspiracy theory-driven anti-lockdown movement, claiming that the vaccine is a “bio weapon” used to “kill and severely injure millions, if not billions of people globally” and speaking of an oncoming “New World Order”. Piper was also active in a “prepping” group on Telegram.
He also ran a channel on Rumble, producing little-viewed videos on conspiracy theories and other fringe topics, including UFO sightings.
By the autumn of 2023, Piper had shifted towards explicit racism, including spreading mistruths about Jewish control and the deliberate replacement of white populations via immigration, as well as questioning elements of the Holocaust.
Daniel Gale, from Derbyshire, is Homeland’s East Midlands organiser. He has led his branch in courting local anti-migrant campaigns in Kegworth, Leicestershire and elsewhere.
Gale joined PA in the summer of 2020, claiming “I had no friends pre-PA”. Writing in a PA-linked chat group, Gale made clear his view that “Jewish power is the first and most urgent question to be dealt with”, continuing:
“We don’t have to choose to deal with the jewish question OR the muslim question. To solve one, we must solve the other […] Jewish power will not simply allow nationalists to take power and repatriate the instruments of white destruction. In order to prevent the demographic replacement of the indigenous Britons we must put a stop to Jewish interference in our politics”
Telegram, 26 August 2020
He said of his anti-Jewish hatred:
“Honestly I hated them before I knew who they were. It was a massive redpill [radicalising moment] for me when I realised that so many of the people I despised just so happened to be of the tribe”
Telegram, 10 September 2020
He continued:
“The more you learn about Jews the easier it is to spot them. This is why they hate it when anybody who isn’t Jewish talks about Jews”
Telegram, 10 September 2020
Unsurprisingly, Gale’s racism is not limited to the Jewish community:
“Don’t organs and blood have to be transplanted to & from the same race? So only Chinese can have Chinese organs like […] Do you think you could buy enough harvested organs to build your own chink?”
Telegram, 9 April 2021
Gale is now a key front-facing Homeland activist, compèring its inaugural AGM in October 2023.
The Nottingham-based plasterer Kevin Carrick is another core Homeland activist.
The longstanding conspiracy theorist has been active in the organised far right since at least April 2018, when he attended the disastrous conference of Generation Identity UK, a now-defunct youth group that promoted a form of racial segregation. Carrick was also active in the broad far-right street movement, for instance attending a “Free Tommy Robinson” demonstration in London during one of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s stints behind bars that June.
Carrick was an early PA activist, attending the group’s second conference in March 2020. He also put up stickers designed by the Hundred Handers, the white supremacist propaganda network headed by Sam Melia, PA’s Yorkshire organiser. Melia’s role in Hundred Handers would eventually see him jailed for race hate offences.
Unsurprisingly, Carrick is also a conspiratorial antisemite. To take a few of many examples, in August 2022, he took to a Tommy Robinson chat to type:
“If they destroy Israel then Jews might stop flooding Europe with rapists”
Telegram, 7 August 2022
On 7 October 2023 — the day of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel —Carrick, now an active Homeland member, again went on on antisemitic tirade on Tommy Robinson’s chat group, claiming that “jews are genociding europeans with mass immigration” and writing:
“Do you keep sucking Jews dick while they turn your children’s future country’s in rape infested 3rd world shit whole, that’s the question”
Telegram, 7 October 2023
Carrick was active in fascist fitness groups, posting a stream of scantily-clad selfies to be evaluated by his fellow fascists on Telegram.
For more information on the Homeland Party, read our report: The Fascist Fringe: Patriotic Alternative and its Splinter Groups
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