HOPE not hate can reveal that Tom Huburn-King, the West Midlands Regional Organiser for the Homeland Party, was an active member of the White Stag Athletic Club, a secretive neo-Nazi group described by a judge as having “a criminal and terrorist purpose”.
The Homeland Party is a fascist political party that splintered from Patriotic Alternative (PA) in April 2023 in order to establish a “squeaky clean media image” and contest elections.
Homeland tries to hide its extremism from the British public and portrays itself as a more hardline but legitimate alternative to Reform UK. The group has received a recent influx of new members, with over a thousand at time of writing, and is standing four candidates at the local elections this May.
Homeland is also hosting its “Remigration Conference” this Saturday, featuring Lena Kotré, an MP for the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Renaud Camus, the French writer behind the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, was also scheduled to speak but has been banned from entering the country by the Home Office.
Despite its pretense of “sensible nationalism”, Homeland retains an ideological cadre of fascist activists. HOPE not hate has repeatedly exposed the extremism within the group — for example, here, here, here, here and here.
Now, HOPE not hate can reveal links between Homeland and the White Stag Athletic Club (WSAC), a secretive fascist physical training group described by a judge as “a cauldron of self-absorbed neo-Nazism” and as having “a criminal and terrorist purpose”. The leader of the group is currently behind bars for terrorism offences.
Tom Huburn-King, a founding member of Homeland and Regional Organiser of its flagship West Midlands branch, was active in WSAC just three years ago. Other Homeland members also have links to the short-lived neo-Nazi group.
This once again undermines Homeland’s carefully confected public image.
WSAC was a fascist fitness and combat training club inspired by the international Active Club Network. The small, tight-knit group was founded by Ashley Podsiad-Sharp (AKA Sarge), a prison officer from Barnsley closely linked to PA, and publicly launched in 2021.
WSAC’s vetted members were expected to follow a strict exercise programme and write the Nazi slogan “Hail Victory” in a closed, encrypted chat group after completing the day’s exercises. The group’s slogan, written in Anglo-Saxon runes, read “Life does not forgive weakness 1488” — a quote from Adolf Hitler followed by a neo-Nazi numeric code.
Members gathered from across the country to train combat sports and undertake gruelling hikes designed to weed out physically unfit members, who were also expected to fight each other in one-on-one combat.
In August 2023, Podsiad-Sharp received a sentence of eight years behind bars for possessing a terrorist manual that contained detailed guidance on committing murder during a race war and evading detection by law enforcement. Weapons, including a bow and arrows, were also found at his home.
Podsiad-Sharp wore a fascist t-shirt to his trial and told the jury that he was “a Nationalist Socialist” who believed different races should live separately. The judge claimed that Podsiad-Sharp “had set up the White Stag Club for a criminal and terrorist purpose, in my judgment. Your motivation was undoubtedly terrorism”.
He described WSAC as:
“a cauldron of self-absorbed neo-Nazism masquerading as a low grade all-male sports club. This sought to camouflage your real purpose to incite violence against those you hated with a vengeance […] sooner or later that violence would have eventuated”.
The judge continued:
“You were recruiting men with equally malevolent views to your own for a malign purpose. […] I have no doubt whatsoever you harboured terrorist intentions and your motivation was terrorism.”
Tom Huburn-King, from Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, has been engaged in far-right activism since at least 2018, when he joined Generation Identity UK (GI UK), a now-defunct far-right youth group that pushed for a form of racial segregation.
GI UK folded in January 2020, having been cut off by the international GI network after a series of infiltrations, exposés and debacles. However, Huburn-King remained active in the far right, moving on to Patriotic Alternative.
Huburn-King was a core member in PA’s West Midlands branch, and was also active in the PA Fitness Club, a group overseen for a period by the former National Action activist Kristofer Kearney. Kearney is himself serving a four-year, eight-month sentence for sharing terror-related materials.
Huburn-King joined WSAC during this time and attended one of the group’s events in the Yorkshire Dales in January 2022, which he described as “a loaded hike with a group of natsocs [National Socialists], white boy summer in full swing”.
In March 2022, he also attended another hike in Snowdonia, during which he and other members were photographed performing Nazi salutes.
As we have written elsewhere, Huburn-King has photographed himself wearing clothing emblazoned with the Nazi sonnenrad symbol and wrote “Happy birthday uncle A 🥳” on 20 April 2022, in celebration of Hitler’s birthday.
Defecting to Homeland in April 2023 with the rest of his branch, Huburn-King served as the group’s Greater Birmingham branch organiser, before being appointed as West Midlands Regional Organiser in January 2025.
We have previously exposed his predecessor in the role, Connor Marlow, as himself being a former member of a fascist fitness group who photographed himself making a Nazi salute.
Other active members of the internal WSAC chat group included Scott Conner and Shaun Caldwell, then members of PA Scotland.
As we have previously revealed, both Caldwell and Conner went on to join Active Club Scotland after the collapse of PA’s Scottish branch. However, Conner remains involved in Homeland, attending the group’s Christmas party in Scotland last December.
Moreover, Martin Kuziel, Homeland’s “International Relations” officer — who has spearheaded the group’s efforts to establish links to the AfD and other groups overseas — ran a Telegram channel named “Manual to Manhood” through which he gave health advice to young men. Kuziel also used the channel to promote WSAC recruitment propaganda, writing: “If you are in the uk, Check this out.”
Homeland has tried desperately to present itself as a credible alternative to Reform UK, capitalising on splits within Nigel Farage’s party and growing rapidly over the past six months. This has already caused internal disagreements, with prominent activists abandoning ship in recent weeks due to Homeland’s supposed pandering to the political centre.
However, Homeland’s relatively anodyne local messaging during the current election campaigns is a world away from the reality of the group, which, as we have shown time and time again, is rife with extremists.
For example, in 2023, Anthony Burrows, the group’s National Nominating Officer, was described by a judge as having:
“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.”
Alec Cave, Homeland’s National Media Officer, was described by another judge as having views “akin to Nazism” the same year. Other members have pasts in hardline neo-Nazi organisations, such as the now-defunct Scottish Nationalist Society, or have privately admitted that “normies” [normal people] recoil upon encountering their racist views.
Do not buy the confected public image: Homeland is a fascist group.
For more information on Patriotic Alternative and the Homeland Party, read our report: The Fascist Fringe: Patriotic Alternative and its Splinter Groups
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