March 14, 2025 - 3:50pm
An Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) politician has hosted senior members of a British ethnonationalist party at the German parliament. A Homeland Party delegation, including chairman Kenny Smith, yesterday met with the AFD’s Steffen Kotré and received a guided tour of the Bundestag, according to a post shared on Homeland’s social media accounts this afternoon.
Homeland was founded in 2023 and registered as a political party last year. Several of its activists have been outed as former members of neo-Nazi groups, and have denied the Holocaust. The party has adopted a platform of “remigration”, involving the mass repatriation of immigrants, which has also been embraced by the AfD. In January, the German party’s co-leader Alice Weidel endorsed remigration, calling for “repatriations on a large scale”.
Thursday’s meeting between Homeland and AfD representatives was geared towards “building relationships across Europe and the world”, according to the former party’s X account. It added: “Implementing remigration will require good foreign relations and our party is already preparing to ensure it will be a success.”
Homeland interviewed Kotré yesterday, as well as Gunnar Lindemann, an AfD politician in the state parliament of Berlin. Kotré has previously appeared on Russian state television to accuse the Western media of spreading anti-Kremlin disinformation, comments which were labelled “disgusting Putin propaganda” by one of his AfD colleagues. Meanwhile, Lindemann has previously been a member of groups in which antisemitic posts were openly shared, and has been accused of ties to far-Right extremist organisations. He has also pinned blame for the Ukraine war on “warmongering” Nato, America and “above all” the Ukrainian state.
AfD youth representative Manuel Schreiber spoke at a Homeland event in Derbyshire last year, while the British party will next month host a “remigration conference” featuring Lena Kotré, an AfD politician and the wife of Steffen Kotré. Another of the advertised speakers is Renaud Camus, a French writer credited with originating the “Great Replacement” theory, according to which political elites are deliberately replacing native white populations in Europe through mass migration from non-white-majority countries.
Speaking to UnHerd late last year, Homeland chairman Kenny Smith said that remigration “was absolutely necessary”, and that “you could stop all the boats and deport all the illegals tomorrow, but if you only stop there we will still continue to become a minority in our own country.” He also dismissed the idea that his party had neo-Nazi roots, saying: “[Britain] ruled half the world — we don’t need to look for inspiration on the continent.”
In a video shared on Homeland’s social media on Wednesday evening alongside Steve Laws — the party’s South East Regional Organiser and arguably most famous face with almost 100,000 X followers — Smith said that they had received “intensive media training from a quality team that has worked very closely with the AfD”. In a separate video, Laws said that the AfD and other Right-wing nationalist parties in Europe “are campaigning on remigration and they’re taking it to national levels, and the majority of people in their countries agree with them. And we want to bring that back to the UK, and we want to present that to our people.”
The AfD came second in Germany’s federal elections last month, returning a record 152 seats as well as doubling its vote share. Homeland remains a minor party in Britain but surpassed 1,000 members this month.
Homeland has been contacted for comment.
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SubscribeHypocrite! First take the beam of wood out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.
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What do you say about Mrs. Merkel with her communist upbringing? Or should you remind us of the numerous cases of mass rape of girls by groups of migrants, when the latter did not receive any punishment at all from liberal judges.
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Europe is already surrendering to the invasion of barbarians and in many ways due to people like you, and if Europe is engulfed in the flames of civil wars, you will be to blame.
Remigration is indeed the only way Europe will be saved. Mass remigration. Unfortunately we will have to suspend our states (legally, politically etc) temporarily in order to carry it out.
This will be the tricky bit but as it gets ever worse it will get ever more evident that it is the only answer and there will come a point where it will be enacted.
We must never allow them to turn us into an Afroislamic continent.
Europe must be for Europeans as the Dalai Lama so wisely said.
I’m sure that there are some people mentioned in this article that I might disagree with significantly on a number of issues. However, they are merely expressing the viewpoint of a large proportion of the electorate, and, regardless of their previous sentiments, are fully entitled to do so. That’s why Trump is now the new sheriff in the United States after all, and the AfD gained 21% of the overall vote in Germany.
When will journalists, such as this one, cease attempting to smear imperfect politicians of the Right, and start commenting on the issues that they’re discussing?
After all, he/she and their fellow denialist Progressives are clearly more extremist with their climate alarmism, open border policy and gender woo woo, but have been conditioned to regard these policies as mainstream.
What does remigration mean? This is always unanswered in essays like this. If it means removing legal citizens, I have a huge problem with that. If it means deporting illegal immigrants, that’s something completely different. I suspect it’s the former. If the AfD was talking about removing legal citizens, we wouldn’t get vague references to remigration.
The AfD clearly has some nut job members, maybe a bunch of them. Yet, I can’t wrap my head around the fact that the party leader is a lesbian married to a woman of colour who immigrated to Germany many years ago. I have difficulty picturing a bunch of lesbian Naz!s goose stepping through the streets of Germany.
It’s a word to which a whole lot of hysteria attaches because it has been adopted by some sketchy people (like the ones mentioned in the article) who may or may not have used it in the context of a type of deportation which would be illegal (or at least extremely hard to achieve legally).
If it’s used to mean the removal of large numbers of non-nationals who have no right to be in the host country (which is a situation several European countries face due to a decade of uncontrolled immigration and almost completely dysfunctional asylum systems), it should not be controversial. Mainstream leaders are addressing this – but they are so wound up about the word remigration that they swerve out and use the much softer and cuddlier sounding terms “deportation” or “expulsion” (#ironyoff)
If you are dealing with rabid wolves, you must become a wolfhound, not a sheep. Germany is an example of what wolves do to sheep
After Vance talked about the elephant in the room the response was senior European politicians giving a standing ovation to a senior German politician crying about the points raised, unable to offer any coherent argument in response and instead, walked off stage.To discuss the Islamification of Europe, the way in which different imported cultural values are not being diluted by integration and the inability for Islam to separate Church and State, in itself a huge problem, that by design, wrecks democracies, and still , by enabling Islam by not confronting it for what it is, tells you everything you need to know. The wokerati, and the political elite , have moved people away from centrist politics as a result of not listening to their well founded concerns.
And ? I’m sure they will thank you for the publicity
Hmm, Homeland eh? Never heard of them, but they sound ok to me. Must investigate.