Latest
Red Flare: Monthly briefing
September 2025
Welcome to our latest monthly briefing. We produce these emails every month to give an overview of British far-right activity. If you have any information you think we should include, please email us at mail@redflare.info.
In Brief
• Tommy Robinson’s “Unite The Kingdom” march attracted over 100,000 attendees to central London on 13 September, making it the largest far-right demonstration in British history
• Robinson has been invited to Israel later this month by Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism
• The Homeland Party held its annual conference last weekend near Birmingham. The event was attended by 70 members, down from 180 in April. The conference was disrupted by anti-fascists
Tommy Robinson
The largest far-right demonstration in British history was held in central London on 13 September. Organised by Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson), the “Unite The Kingdom” march attracted over 100,000 attendees marching from Waterloo to Whitehall. Speakers included leader of France’s Reconquête party Éric Zemmour, Dutch far-right activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek, ex-Israeli Defence Forces soldier and far-right commentator Avi Yemini, Alternative für Deutschland politician Petr Bystron, Flemish nationalist leader Philip Dewinter, leader of the Danish People’s Party Morten Messerschmidt, and disgraced TV personalities Laurence Fox, Katie Hopkins, and Ant Middleton. The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, addressed the crowd via videolink, urging the attendees to “fight back or die,” while warning of the dangers of uncontrolled migration and calling for the UK parliament to be dissolved.
As with Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement, the event was overtly Christian nationalist. Speaker Brian Tamaki called for a ban on “any type of public expression in our Christian nation from other religions.” Crowds could be heard chanting “NF, NF” in reference to the National Front, despite Yaxley-Lennon disregarding claims of the demonstration being far-right as “nonsense.” Ethno-nationalist groups from across the British far right were present including Patriotic Alternative, White Vanguard, and the Homeland Party. Undercover footage obtained by Youtuber Nikolas “Niko” Omilana showed attendees calling to “kill [migrants] on the beach.” One woman bragged that she was carrying knives to attack black people with. 26 police officers were injured and 24 arrests made as officers clashed with attendees at various flash points. A counter protest organised by Stand Up To Racism and other anti-fascist groups attracted around five thousand attendees.
After initially sharing a soft rebuke which began with “people have the right to peaceful protest,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer later hardened his position, calling the demonstration “plastic patriotism” that sent a “shiver” through the UK. Critics including Liberal Democrat MP Ed Davey have pushed for Starmer to impose sanctions on Musk.
Yaxley-Lennon backed political party Advance UK, who sponsored the Unite The Kingdom march, officially launched at an event in Newcastle on 27 September. After the initial venue – council-owned Crowne Plaza Hotel – cancelled on “health and safety grounds,” the event was relocated with attendees crammed into a Japanese restaurant inside the Vermont Hotel. Led by former Deputy Leader of Reform UK Ben Habib, Advance UK claims to have over 36,000 members. Elon Musk has endorsed the new party.
A week after the Unite The Kingdom march, Yaxley-Lennon claimed to have been deported from two different countries. Having travelled to the Colombian capital of Bogota for a holiday, he claims he was detained as a “threat to national security.” After opting to fly to Panama instead of boarding a deportation flight, he was subsequently deported back to the UK. Yaxley Lennon alleges he was deported due to his “political beliefs.”
Yaxley-Lennon is due in court on 5 October for a pre-trial review on charges of harassment causing fear of violence towards two MailOnline journalists. His trial will be held over 5 days in October 2026.
The owner of FOMO, a cryptocurrency firm which sponsored the Unite The Kingdom march, has been revealed by Byline Times to be convicted fraudster Ashley Ward. Ward, whose birth name is Ashley Keable, was imprisoned for 12 months for scamming customers on eBay. He is alleged to be behind two significant cryptocurrency “rug-pulls”, a controversial practice where cryptocurrency owners misleadingly inflate the value of a currency before cashing out and causing a crash in value. FOMO also sponsored Yaxley-Lennon’s central London demonstration on 1 June 2024.
Singer-songwriter Labi Siffre has issued Yaxley-Lennon with a cease and desist order due to the use of his hit song So Strong. Written by Siffre as an anti-apartheid song and the reported favourite of Nelson Mandela, Yaxley Lennon has co-opted the song through use on social media and playing it at rallies.
Yaxley-Lennon has been invited to Israel later this month by Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism. Posting on X/Twitter on 3 October, Chikli wrote, “Tommy is a courageous leader on the front line against radical Islam”. The move was condemned by groups including the Board of Deputies and Labour Friends of Israel. Chikli was the subject of a criminal complaint filed by the Hind Rajab foundation earlier this year that accused him of making terrorist threats against the president of the foundation, Dyab Abou Jahjah.
For more on Yaxley-Lennon’s Unite the Kingdom rally, including reporting from on the ground and the wider context, check out the latest episode of the 12 Rules for What podcast with
Homeland Party
The fascist Homeland Party hosted its annual conference last weekend at the Village Hotel in Walsall, north of Birmingham in the West Midlands. The event was attended by around 70 party members and supporters, a significant decline from the 180 attendees at the party’s “remigration” conference held in Bourne, north of Peterborough in April earlier this year. In contrast to its two previous national events, both of which have sold out, the party struggled to sell tickets for last week’s conference, which doubled as an Annual General Meeting. The conference did not feature any international speakers and was only addressed by activists and organisers from within the party. Speakers included party chairman Kenny Smith, treasurer Daniel Gale, national media officer Alec Cave, South East regional organiser Mike Lyton and Eastern regional organiser Adam Clegg. Photographs published by Homeland on its social media accounts show a half-full conference venue and bored-looking attendees.
Low attendance and lacklustre lineup of conference speakers are further evidence of a party floundering in the wake of a major split. In August, Homeland was plunged into crisis following the departure of a significant number of key organisers and activists. Figures including fascist influencer Steve Laws and neo-Nazi YouTuber Samuel Wilkes (aka “Zoomer Historian”), former party treasurer and national council member Jerome O’Reilly, Staffordshire branch organiser and Fulford parish councillor Connor Marlow, and Essex activist and Epping anti-migrant campaign organiser Callum Barker appear to be coalescing a new “activist / pressure group” called Remigration Now (a slogan also used by Homeland), spearheaded by Laws.
We published Homeland’s secret conference venue on the morning of the event, which led to the conference being disrupted by a small but dedicated group of anti-fascists. After anti-fascists picketed the venue, hotel management claimed to have refused service to Homeland and asked them to leave. Homeland members were heckled by hotel guests and locals and key party members including Anthony Burrows and Kevin Carrick were later escorted to their cars by police after they were confronted by anti-fascists outside the venue.
Homeland has signalled that it now aspires to deport “15 million” people from Britain – a figure that would include millions of British citizens – apparently in response to increasingly radical rhetoric from the breakaway faction headed by Laws. Homeland has previously stated that it would seek to “encourage” migrants to “voluntarily” leave Britain. A post stating “Zero in. 15 million out”, made on X/Twitter was met with ridicule by the party’s defectors. Neo-Nazi YouTuber Samuel Wilkes responded, “This would involve deporting all legal migrants, mostly by force. I assume you’ve dropped ‘voluntary only’, then?”
On 25 September Homeland member and far-right blogger Pete North was arrested by North Yorkshire Police on suspicion of publishing or distributing written material intended to stir up racial hatred after he shared an image on X/Twitter that included the text, “Fuck Palestine. Fuck Hamas. Fuck Islam. Want to protest? Fuck off to Muslim country and protest”. North was taken to a police station and interviewed before later being released without charge. North was previously billed as the guest speaker at the far-right Traditional Britain Group’s Christmas dinner held in central London in December, before the event was shut down by anti-fascists.
North’s involvement in Homeland has long been contentious and he was singled out for criticism earlier this year by defectors who claimed that “his appointment to Homeland’s policy team was “a total disaster”. A letter written to the party leadership at the start of August, and subsequently sent en masse to the party’s membership described North as “limp in his attitudes towards British Nationalism” and a “radical Zionist with a greater affinity for Israel than the United Kingdom”.
North has become a cause célèbre among the rightwing press following his arrest and has sought to portray himself as the victim of “two-tier justice”, claiming he is an autistic man who was arrested for criticising Hamas. Numerous outlets have described the image shared by North as an “anti-Hamas meme”. None have reported on North’s membership of a fascist party or his attendance of far-right conferences.
Earlier in September Homeland published a 90 minute recording of MPs and union leaders participating in an online Stand Up To Racism meeting ahead of Tommy Robinson’s 13 September rally in London. A swivel-eyed blog post on the party’s website describes meeting participants as “plotting” and “orchestrating” a “counter-protest machine”. Comments on the party’s YouTube channel called for participants in the meeting to be jailed with one commenter writing, “These 2 black women need to be. Banned from politics”.
Throughout September Homeland Party organisers and members have continued to attend protests outside hotels housing refugees in areas including Long Eaton in Derbyshire, Ashington in Northumberland and Falkirk in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.
Patriotic Alternative
Patriotic Alternative (PA) has continued to capitalise on the wave of racist anti-migrant protests that have targeted accommodations for asylum applicants across the country. A contingent of PA activists attended the Unite the Kingdom rally in Central London (discussed above). Around 20 activists displayed banners and distributed leaflets with PA messaging. In a post about the event, PA said it was important to have a “GENUINE ethno-nationalist presence at the event” and that the “core message” of the anti-migrant protests should not be “hijacked by sell-outs or lead by controlled opposition” – referring to Reform UK and the United the Kingdom rally organisers.
Although Reform has lurched even further to the right in recent weeks, with Farage’s calls for immediate mass deportations and abolishing indefinite leave to remain, PA, Homeland and other ethno-nationalists are talking openly about an even more extreme deportation regime, which would include the expulsion of non-white British citizens.
Deputy leader Laura Melia spoke at this year’s Heritage and Destiny conference (discussed below). Around 10 PA activists attended the event.
Elsewhere in the country, PA have continued to attend local anti-migrant protests. On 30 August south west activists joined a protest outside the Ibis Hotel in Gloucester, displaying a banner that read “Save our children. Send them back.” Activists distributed leaflets and made speeches to the crowd. In Scotland, activists attended anti-migrant demonstrations in Glasgow and Falkirk. In the North East, PA activists attended an anti-migrant protest in Ashington. In the North West, PA activists supported an anti-migrant demonstration in Altrincham.
In the East Midlands, PA activists delivered food and clothing to homeless people in Worksop in a van branded prominently with the PA logo. Previously PA activists have distributed aid to white homeless people but have not sustained their efforts beyond the occasional photo opportunity. PA have inevitably linked homelessness in the area to their anti-migrant campaigning, claiming without evidence that “vulnerable people in Worksop have been ejected from their accommodation by shameless landlords in favour of lucrative government contracts to house economic migrants”.
On the weekend of 13 September PA activists joined a The Woodlander Initiative (TWI) camp in Wales, which bought two plots of land in Llanafan Fawr. TWI has attracted national attention for its plans to purchase land across the country for use by UK white supremacist groups.
On his Patriotic Weekly Review livestream, PA leader Mark Collett hosted Swedish neo-Nazi content creator Marcus Follin (aka “The Golden One”), Australian fascist Blair Cottrell, who was recorded making violent racist comments at a PA conference, American neo-Nazi Warren Balogh, and British fascist blogger Morgoth, who was recently outed by counter-extremist group Hope Not Hate as Michael Wright. Collett has seemingly dropped his UK focused “news round-up” streams. However, he has streamed with Robin Tillbrook, leader of the far-right English Democrats and a practising solicitor to discuss stories of white people arrested or otherwise harassed by police for social media posts or “defending themselves against migrants”. These stories are often exaggerated or even outright fabricated and used to feed far-right outrage.
Elsewhere
On the same day as the Advance UK launch in Newcastle, Nick Tenconi’s UKIP marched from the Quayside to the city centre, holding crosses and England flags. The group was massively outnumbered by thousands of counter-protestors. A UKIP protest in Margate, Kent, attracted single figures and was drowned out by a much larger opposition rally.
While anti-migrant protests have continued across the country, not all have involved the presence of organised far-right groups, with some drawing on a more localised support base. In Chesterfield on 27 September, anti-migrant protestors outnumbered anti-fascists by around 600 to 350. One protestor who explained to an interviewer that his side had been “keeping it civil” and refraining from harassment was caught on a different camera proclaiming that he was a “Nazi racist” and shouting sexually aggressive abuse at female counter-protestors.
Heritage and Destiny (H&D), the “racial nationalist” journal, held its annual meeting in a suburb of Preston. The meeting, booked as usual under false pretences, was held at St Teresa’s Parish Centre in Penwortham. There were around 70 attendees, including Laura Melia – deputy leader of Patriotic Alternative – and the leaders of the British Movement and British Democrats. There were eleven speakers, including H&D editors Mark Cotterill and Peter Rushton. H&D’s American correspondent, third position fascist Kenneth Schmidt, was denied entry to the UK.
At the start of the month the National Rebirth Party, led by former PAmember Alek Yerbury, held their National Conference in Leeds, meeting at a conference room in the Radisson Blu Hotel and attracting around 30 attendees.
Richard Donaldson, leader of the Great British National Protest, has accused fellow anti-migrant activists Clare Walsh and her partner James Hodge of planning “acts of domestic terrorism” and has reported them to the police. Donaldson claimed that: “What they planned, what they have planned, and the idea that they put to me, would at the very, very least maim a lot of people, and it will kill people, so obviously I said, ‘No, I’m not gonna be getting involved’”.
Eight Metropolitan Police officers have been suspended after a BBC Panorama documentary revealed widespread racism and misogyny at a police station in Charing Cross, London. The footage, captured using hidden cameras, showed officers calling for, amongst other things, people who overstay their visas to be executed. In one scene, officers bragged about using excessive force after pinning an autistic teenager to the ground for two hours.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 