A GERMAN far-right politician who met with neo-Nazis is set to speak at the Homeland Party’s UK conference.
The April conference run by the Homeland Party, which is led by a Scot and registered at an address in West Lothian, will focus on the topic of the mass deportation of migrants and will be hosted in England.
Now, The Ferret reports that Alternative For Germany (AfD) politician, Lena Kotré, will be attending.
Kotré also reportedly distributed Kubotans – self-defence stabbing weapons which are legal in Germany but banned in the UK – at campaign events last year.
Homeland says the April conference will explore “remigration”, which the party describes as the return of “illegal, unintegrated, and unwelcome migrants” to their origin countries.
Also speaking at Homeland’s event is the man behind a conspiracy theory cited by white supremacists and mass murderers, as The Ferret reported in February.
Homeland’s chairman, Kenny Smith, claimed the AfD’s historic second place in the recent German election was owed to its remigration policy, which, he argued, “is similar in many ways to the Homeland Party policy”.
Kenny Smith, Homeland’s chair, is a former member of the racist British National Party.
He defended having Kotré as a speaker, explaining that she “speaks out against the rising tide of immigrant violence sweeping Germany and the sexual violence targeted at women in particular” and that she had “won the support of many of them by distributing Kubotans free of charge to these concerned constituents.”
A spokesperson for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a counter-extremism think tank, said: “The far right has historically been a transnational phenomenon dating back decades and ideological and tactical exchange is very much the norm between these groups.
“It’s concerning to see someone from the AfD, which at this point is a major party in Germany, come to a gathering of what is effectively a very small group of white supremacists and give validation or credibility to them.”
Smith called the ISD a “misnamed far-left think tank” – despite it also profiling left-wing extremists.
He claimed that the organisation “absurdly labels the natural desire many European people have to protect their own ethnic identity, culture and homeland as extreme”.
Smith added: “I suspect their concern is already turning to anguish, as 2025 continues to see the word remigration become part of the political discourse and overtake even just the simple demand to end mass immigration.”
