Free Tommy Coalition Shows Strain as Leader Remains Jailed

In brief

• Thousands of Tommy Robinson supporters gathered in central London on 1 February, although numbers were down compared with recent protests
• The Homeland Party now claims to have around 800 registered members and has almost 32,000 followers on X/Twitter. One party organiser has claimed that “roughly 70%” of Homeland’s members are under 30
• Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett has marked 300 episodes of his Patriotic Weekly Review livestream with a 4 hours stream featuring a number of prominent far-right activists
• The Labour party has broadcast videos of immigration removals in a direct echo of the Trump administration. Labour’s racist pivot is an attempt to head off a surging Reform party
• Senior figures in MI5 lied in testimony to three courts to protect a neo-Nazi agent who abused a former girlfriend
• Active Club England has been exposed in an ITV documentary following an undercover infiltration

Tommy Robinson 

Imprisoned far-right influencer Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 20 and 21 March to face charges under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, according to a message circulated by his supporters.

The post, which calls on supporters to gather outside the court from 9am on both days, claims that Yaxley-Lennon is being politically persecuted. It states that he refused to grant police access to his phone, citing legal privilege and the presence of sensitive information, including the details of survivors of child sexual exploitation.

Thousands of Yaxley-Lennon’s supporters gathered in central London on 1 February calling for him to be released from isolation. The protest started outside Waterloo Station before marching down York Road and across Westminster Bridge, finishing at the lower end of Whitehall. Notably present among the speakers were former United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) MEP Gerard Batten, former Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen, former Reform UK London mayoral candidate Howard Cox and event organiser Richard Inman.

Cox, who left Reform recently over the party’s position on Yaxley-Lennon, urged party leaders Nigel Farage and Richard Tice to resolve their disagreements with the imprisoned activist. Inman, who serves on UKIP’s national executive committee, used the platform to promote his struggling party, saying that “UKIP is the only party that represents the British people.”

A separate protest organised by Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) began on St James’s Street and ended on the upper half of Whitehall. Three arrests were made when Yaxley-Lennon’s supporters reportedly entered the SUTR rally area. A widely shared video showing counter-protesters pushing through police lines has since been confirmed as having been filmed two weeks previously at a Palestine solidarity demonstration.

After the protest, Yaxley-Lennon’s representatives published a statement on X/Twitter regarding disputes within their camp. The statement described one incident where the movement’s ‘crowd security’ team had been disbanded after its two leaders had, after being denied backstage access, attempted to lure a member of Yaxley-Lennon’s ‘personal security’ team into a vulnerable situation where he could be “dealt with.” Yaxley-Lennon's son was reportedly in the backstage area.

The second incident described an individual being forcibly removed by Yaxley-Lennon's personal security detail after demanding to speak on stage and becoming aggressive when denied. Yaxley-Lennon's representatives warned that “whenever Tommy is absent because of a prison sentence, there is always a vacuum, and egotistical narcissists see an opportunity to fill that vacuum.” The culprit identified himself in the replies as anti-migrant activist "The Traditional Bricklayer", commenting that he was heartbroken by the statement.

A number of Yaxley-Lennon’s accomplices have reported being denied visits to the imprisoned activist on the basis that “content from [these visits] is likely to be used on [their] YouTube/social media platforms.” The Bad Law Project, launched by disgraced actor Laurence Fox in 2022, has written to governors at HMP Woodhill arguing that this infringes Yaxley-Lennon’s legal rights and does not meet the justified exceptions for visiting rights, which include the interests of national security and public safety. Yaxley-Lennon’s representatives have threatened weekly protests outside the prison.

Yaxley-Lennon’s representatives have expressed their condolences after Iraqi anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika was gunned down in Stockholm, Sweden. Yaxley-Lennon had travelled to Sweden to interview Momika in March 2024 and had campaigned against his potential extradition to Iraq. Momika was infamous for staging protests in 2023 where he burned copies of the Quran. He was allegedly killed during a TikTok livestream.

Urban Scoop, Yaxley-Lennon's media company, has joined the coterie of far-right groups covering the UK farmers' protests. Urban Scoop intends to uncover the “globalist agenda threatening food independence.” Urban Scoop also covered the trial of former Royal Marine and Manchester United apprentice Jamie Michael. On 5 February Michael was found not guilty of stirring racial hatred after he posted a video on Facebook describing newly arrived immigrants as “scumbags” and “psychopaths.”

Homeland Party

Throughout January and February the Homeland Party (Homeland) has continued to grow its membership as well as its reach on social media. The party now claims to have around 800 members and has almost 32,000 followers on X/Twitter. One branch organiser for the party has claimed that “roughly 70%” of Homeland’s members are under 30. Some of the party’s recent recruits are as young as 16. 

At the end of January, Homeland announced that it had continued to reshuffle some of its top leadership positions (last month’s briefing covered earlier changes). Former East Midlands regional organiser and party data protection officer, Daniel Gale, has taken over as treasurer, replacing Cardiff-based Jerome O’Reilly. O’Reilly will remain on Homeland’s national council as the party’s regional organiser for Wales and has been tasked with “revitalising” activism in the party’s ailing Welsh region. Gale will be replaced as East Midlands regional organiser by Derbyshire branch organiser, Tom Batten. Batten is a former PA member and was PA’s East Midlands media officer during Homeland nominating officer Anthony Burrow’s time as PA’s East Midlands regional organiser. In the West Midlands, Thomas King, previously a member of Generation Identity UK and Homeland’s branch organiser for Birmingham has replaced Fulford parish councillor Connor Marlow as the party’s West Midlands regional organiser. The party has also appointed its first regional organisers in Yorkshire (Pete Douglas) and the North East (Patrick Miles). Homeland has also appointed five new branch officers in Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Merseyside in the North West, Oxfordshire in the South East and Derbyshire in the East Midlands. 

At the start of February, Homeland published its housing policy. The policy blames immigration - rather than speculative investment and profiteering - for the housing crisis and proposes preventing large numbers of non-white British citizens and migrants from qualifying for social housing. Homeland also claims to have expanded its ‘policy team’ by two members to a total of nine, who the party say are working on a health and social care policy statement.  

During the first weekend of February Homeland held a ‘community politics’ workshop for its members. The workshop, intended for prospective candidates and ‘community leaders’, aimed to teach activists how they can “promote nationalism in a positive light” by addressing local concerns and using “smart optics” and “sensible language”. The workshop was addressed by party chairman Kenny Smith, Blackwell parish councillor Anthony Burrows, far-right blogger Pete North and Alexandra Stacey, a music teacher and self-styled business guru from Spalding, Lincolnshire.

Homeland activism in late January and February has largely consisted of delivering leaflets and litter picking. Homeland’s South East region, now led by fascist anti-migrant activist Steve Laws, was the party’s most active during the first part of February. Activists from Homeland’s Kent branch delivered leaflets to homes in Rodmersham, Gillingham, Faversham, Ashford, and Folkestone. Activists from the South East region’s smaller Oxfordshire and Hampshire branches delivered leaflets in Wantage and Portsmouth respectively. 

Homeland’s Scotland region was also active in February with activists from the region’s Lothian branch leafleting in Livingston, and activists from the North East branch leafleting Insch in Aberdeenshire. Scotland regional organiser Simon Crane joined activists from the party's West of Scotland branch in Bishopton for their monthly meeting and posed awkwardly for a photo outside the Muthu Glasgow River hotel in Erskine. The hotel, which used to provide temporary accommodation for refugees, was previously the site of protests by Homeland and PA. Also in Scotland, Homeland's national stewarding officer and Forfar community council treasurer, David Gardner continued to use his volunteer conservation efforts at Forfar Loch Country Park in Angus as promotional fodder for Homeland’s racist politics. Gardner was joined by four other activists from Aberdeen and Dundee. 

Activists from Homeland’s Eastern region, led by Epping-based Adam Clegg, delivered leaflets in Theydon Bois, Essex. Clegg also met with activists from the region’s Hertfordshire branch in a pub in Hemel Hempstead “to plan further activities around the county”. Homeland shared a selfie taken by the activists on X/Twitter (pictured above) which once again attracted derision from other fascists who claimed their physical appearance was “dysgenic”.

Activists from Homeland's West Midlands region, Thomas King posed with litter pickers and rubbish bags in Warwickshire. King joined other activists to deliver leaflets in Shropshire. Elsewhere, activists from Homeland's East Midlands region collected two bags of litter in Bolsover, Derbyshire, and activists from the party's South and West Yorkshire branches delivered leaflets in Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham. Images shared by the party include a photograph of a handful of leaflets that read, “WE ARE BEING REPLACED IN OUR OWN HOMELAND”, held in front of the Holiday Inn in Wath-upon-Dearne. The hotel, which temporarily housed refugees, had its windows smashed and was set on fire by a mob of anti-migrant rioters in August last year. 

Notably lacking in activity was Homeland’s London region, now led by Hornchurch-based former Generation Identity UK activist Sam Sibbons. Activists from the region were widely mocked by Homeland supporters after sharing a selfie on X/Twitter last month. 

Homeland continues to promote its forthcoming Spring conference on ‘remigration’, due to take place in the East Midlands on 26 April. Speakers are set to include far-right ideologue Renaud Camus, who popularised the ‘great replacement’ conspiracy theory and “an MP from one of Europe's largest Nationalist parties”. The party will also hold an Autumn conference in September. 

Patriotic Alternative

Patriotic Alternative (PA) leader Mark Collett’s weekly livestream Patriotic Weekly Review (PWR) reached 300 episodes in February. Collett marked the occasion with a special four-hour stream featuring neo-Nazis and fascists from Britain, America, Australia and Germany. Collett’s original weekly livestream, This Week on the Alt-Right, was rebranded as PWR in 2019. It went on to play a key role in the formation of PA. Collett used the show to grow his audience and boost the profile of his allies, such as Laura Melia (aka Laura Towler). The PWR group on Telegram was the largest group associated with PA before it was eventually closed. Collett’s obsession with livestreaming from his spare room, allowing him to reach an audience without the risks of public speaking, was one of the factors in the split that led to Homeland breaking away from PA.

When Collett started streaming, he was broadcasting on YouTube, where the algorithm and his guests helped him build his subscribers to over 100,000. Today, he broadcasts on alt-tech platforms and has 23,300 followers on BitChute and 16,000 on Odysee.

Earlier in the month, Collett hosted Thomas Rousseau, founder and leader of the American far-right group Patriot Front, as his guest on PWR, where the pair discussed what it is like to operate under a Trump presidency. Days before, Collett played video games on a livestream titled "The Nationalist A-Team: DEI Plane Crash," where he and others discussed the Washington plane crash while repeating Trump’s talking points.

In February, six members of PA’s Eastern region held a protest outside Mohammad Yasin MP’s office, where they displayed a banner reading "Stop Anti-White Violence" and laid flowers in memory of a 17-year-old boy fatally stabbed at a bus station in Bedford. PA claims the boy was stabbed by "a gang of foreign decent [sic]."

At the start of the month, activists from PA’s South East region attended the “Tommy Robinson” protest in central London. PA used the outing to talk about their own prisoners and to highlight their scheme for distributing money to people jailed for taking part in racist riots. PA has so far distributed £12,000 to the families of prisoners.

Much of PA’s activity in recent months appears to have been dedicated to "community building," which amounts to small groups of members visiting pubs. At the end of January, a group from PA’s South East region went to pubs in Hampshire and Sussex, where they handed out business cards and met new members. In the East Midlands, new members were welcomed to the group by going to a pub. In Salisbury at the start of February, activists from the south-west region went to a pub.

On the last weekend in January, small groups of PA members in Bristol and Leeds walked around their respective city centres taking photographs of each other supposedly helping homeless people. This was repeated in Bristol on Saturday 8 February.

PA South West went for a hike in Gloucestershire and picked up some empty cans and bottles while walking. PA’s North West region went for a hike on Pendle Hill in Lancashire at the end of January before visiting a pub for a meal. The following week, the region held a fitness event with endurance and strength drills in Manchester. PA said: "Staying fit is crucial if you want to resist the anti-white forces of this world."

Elsewhere

Nigel Farage announced what he claimed would be “the biggest UK political rally seen in modern times”, for the launch of Reform UK’s campaign for the May local and mayoral elections, taking place at the Arena Birmingham on 28 March. Reform has recently overtaken Labour for the first time in a national opinion poll, a YouGov survey putting Farage’s party on 25 per cent. Reform are now running on average five percentage points ahead of the Tories, who have failed to reclaim public credibility under the leadership of Kemi Badenoch. 

Labour has sought to head Reform off with an increasingly authoritarian immigration policy. Echoing the Trump administration, the government has gone as far as to broadcast detention of migrants, including raids and the transportation of people to deportation flights. The party has also run Reform style online ads, devoid of the Labour logo, touting its immigration policies. Labour’s rightward trajectory may create space for far-right figures and groups to attack Reform from the right and furthers a fascist agenda that openly questions the status of non-white citizens and pushes for mass deportations of non white people.  

Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, the Security Service (MI5), lied to three courts to protect a neo-Nazi state agent who attacked his girlfriend with a machete. The man, known publicly only as X, is alleged to have been physically and sexually violent towards his then partner, who was left traumatised. It is also alleged X claimed to her that his status as an MI5 agent meant that he was above the law. MI5 representatives stated in court that the agency had neither confirmed nor denied the informant’s identity. In fact, a senior officer has disclosed X’s status in a phone call with a BBC journalist, attempting to dissuade the BBC from reporting on him. MI5 was forced into a humiliating reversal after the BBC revealed logs and audio recordings directly contradicting previous testimony. 

Right-wingers from around the world gathered at the ExCel centre in London for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference. Speakers included Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, alongside a number of figures with close links to the Trump administration, including tech billionaire Peter Thiel, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Elon Musk ally Vivek Ramaswamy, with Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson appearing remotely. ARC was co-founded in 2023 by Jordan Peterson and the Tory peer Philippa Stroud, and its advisory board includes the Tory MP Danny Kruger and Labour peer Maurice Glasman.

ITV news published an undercover exposé of Active Club England, a neo-Nazi network focused on fitness and martial arts and comprising at least eight regional groups. Members of the group were recorded outlining their extreme racist views and discussing violent attacks they claimed to have carried out. One prominent member, Jay Barlow, had previously been jailed for four years after carrying out a knife attack in a supermarket. The Active Club Network was created in 2021 and now includes groups across Europe and the USA.

UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell earned condemnation recently for pro-Hitler, anti-semitic and transphobic statements on the first episode of his new podcast. UFC president and Trump supporter Dana White condemn Mitchell’s comments whilst refusing to impose any sanction on the grounds of ‘free speech’. 

Newly approved Secretary of Defence and former weekend Fox host Pete Hegseth has raised eyebrows by inviting far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec on his first overseas trip, where he is set to visit Germany, Belgium and Poland. Posobiec is known for promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy and has referenced the white genocide conspiracy theory.