A PROMINENT far-right “influencer” has boasted he is “gaining ground” in the UK Parliament by meeting members of the House of Lords.
Steve Laws, who made a name for himself filming small boats landing on the English coast, bragged on Twitter/X that he was meeting with two peers this week.
The peers are not known and Laws declined to give any information when approached by The National.
In a post on Twitter/X on Tuesday, Laws said: "I have a meeting with two members of the [House of Lords] this week to discuss remigration. We're gaining ground."
The influencer quit the Homeland Party, which is linked with Nazi sympathisers, in April this year and has said on social media they are “going soft”.
Homeland’s flagship policy is “remigration”, which would encourage immigrants to leave the UK, as well as the promotion of the “ethnic identity” of “indigenous” Britons.
They have been called “fascist” and key members have expressed support for Adolf Hitler and had their opinions compared to Nazism.
Anthony Burrows, Homeland’s nominating officer, lost an appeal to overturn his shotgun licence ban in 2023 because of his extreme political views.
Judge Jonathan Bennett, presiding at Derby Crown Court, heard that Burrows had posted photographs including of Adolf Hitler and of the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in response to being asked on Twitter/X to “describe your politics with four people”.
Another Twitter/X post from the same account showed what appeared to be mass graves of Muslim people.
The judge said Burrows had “given us significant concerns coupled with sharing links to terrorist literature and manifestos”. He added: “Consequently, we take the view that the police were quite correct to act as they did when his shotguns were removed in August 2021 and his licence was revoked.”
Alec Cave, the party’s national media officer, was described in an employment tribunal as having beliefs which are “akin to Nazism”.
We revealed last week how Patriotic Alternative, from which Homeland split, has been encouraging followers to infiltrate Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
Supporters were encouraged to join the party, which is surging in opinion polls, and attempt to run for elected office in a bid to "exert a significant level of influence on the direction of Reform and eventually within the corridors of power in this nation".
