Patriotic Alternative (PA) is a British far-right, fascist, neo-Nazi and white nationalist hate group which states that it has active branches nationwide. The Times described it in 2023 as "Britain's largest far-right white supremacist movement". Its stance has been variously described as Islamophobic, fascist and racist. According to Hope Not Hate, splits, especially the 2023 creation of the Homeland Party that has eclipsed it, have pushed PA into decline. As of April 2025, PA had around 500 members.
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Political views
Patriotic Alternative promotes a white nationalist ideology and aims to combat the "replacement and displacement" of white British people by immigrants who "have no right to these lands". They support the deportation of people of "migrant descent" and would offer financially incentivised repatriation for "those of immigrant descent who have obtained British passports". Patriotic Alternative opposes all immigration unless immigrants have a shared cultural and ethnic background or can prove British ancestry.
According to Hope not Hate, members of Patriotic Alternative have supported political violence, the white genocide conspiracy theory, and Holocaust denial. They have targeted the LGBT community as being a danger to young children. Patriotic Alternative opposes Black Lives Matter and has displayed White Lives Matter banners around the UK, including on the top of Mam Tor, a hill in Derbyshire. Hope not Hate say that the group generally admires Vladimir Putin's Russia for its "illiberalism, anti-Westernism and authoritarianism". The group also includes a "cohort of anti-vaxxers".
History
Patriotic Alternative was founded in July 2019 by the British neo-Nazi and antisemitic conspiracy theorist Mark Collett, the former director of publicity of the British National Party. In September 2019, PA held its first conference, with Edward Dutton and Colin Robertson giving speeches, among others.
In October 2020, counterterrorism experts reported that extremist far-right groups including Patriotic Alternative were using YouTube to try to recruit people, including children "as young as 12". Later that month, Patriotic Alternative members delivered leaflets to over 1,000 homes in Hull, England, stating that white British people will be a minority in Britain by the 2060s and that the COVID-19 lockdown was an attempt to "take away our freedom".
In December 2020, it was reported that Patriotic Alternative's London regional organiser was Nicholas Hill, a 50-year-old former Liberal Democrat councillor from Catford in South London, known by the online pseudonym "Cornelius". That month, during an appearance by the Labour Party leader Keir Starmer on LBC, a caller referring to herself as "Gemma from Cambridge" put forward the white supremacist Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Starmer was criticised by some for his perceived failure to challenge the caller, who was revealed by investigative group Red Flare to be Jody Swingler, a yoga teacher and Patriotic Alternative activist.
A group called the Antifascist Research Collective infiltrated Patriotic Alternative Scotland's private Telegram group. Working with The Ferret, the Telegram group of around 60 people was found to include people who had been members of, or expressed support for, the Scottish Defence League, the neo-Nazi music group Blood & Honour, the British National Party, the New British Union, the British Union of Fascists and the Scottish Nationalist Society.
In February 2021, the Guardian reported that Patriotic Alternative was running "Call of Duty: Warcraft" (presumably Call of Duty: Warzone) gaming tournaments for its supporters.
Tabatha Stirling of Stirling Publishing wrote a series of articles for Patriotic Alternative under the pen name "Miss Britannia" describing her son's school as "a hellhole for sensible, secure White boys" and said "there is one member of staff who is openly gay, and I mean RuPaul extra gay". On 14 March 2021, author Julie Burchill announced that, with Stirling, "I've found someone who's JUST LIKE ME", who were now publishing her book after the Little, Brown Book Group had dropped Burchill. This came after Burchill had made defamatory statements about the journalist Ash Sarkar. However, Burchill parted with Stirling Publishing when she found out that Stirling was associated with Patriotic Alternative.
Prosecutions
In June 2023, a Patriotic Alternative member, Kristofer Thomas Kearner, who had pleaded guilty to charges of disseminating terrorist publications on a Telegram account, including the manifestos of Brenton Tarrant and Anders Behring Breivik, was imprisoned for four years and eight months.
In March 2026, Alina Burns, a 19-year-old member of Patriotic Alternative, pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Mohammed Mahmoodi on 2 August 2025, and was sentenced to 19 years and six months in prison on 15 May 2026.
In May 2026 four men were arrested and charged in connection with threatening and abusive behaviour at an anti-immigration protest in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, during which neo-Nazi flags were placed on the Wellmeadow war memorial, including one linked to Patriotic Alternative which read "Deport all illegal migrants".
In September 2026, Thomas Webster, a 29-year-old former tax worker at HM Revenue and Customs, was given a two year sentence on ten counts of stirring up racial hatred, after calling for the killing and extinction of "racial enemies", including Muslims, Jews and gay people. He had described himself as a "genocidal racist monster". Webster had been referred to Prevent four times since 2017.
Links to National Action
The Times reported in October 2021 that Mark Collett had attended combat training with former members of the proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action. The investigation also revealed that Kristofer Kearney, known as Kris Kearns, who leads Patriotic Alternative's "Fitness Club" initiative, was active in National Action before the group was banned. Kearns had been living in Spain, but was extradited, convicted of terrorism, and jailed in 2023 for four years and eight months. Sam Melia, a regional organiser for PA and husband of Laura Tyrie, was previously affiliated with National Action. Alex Davies, the jailed co-founder of National Action, had been active within Patriotic Alternative for more than two years.
Transnational affiliations
In March 2021, Mark Collett, as a representative of Patriotic Alternative, participated in an online conference bringing together Daniel Conversano's Les Braves, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), at the end of which Mark Collett and Simon Lindberg of the NRM called for the union of white nationalists. In September 2021, PA formalised this partnership with Les Braves by publishing an article by Les Braves on its website. Australian extremist Blair Cottrell participated in a conference organised by Patriotic Alternative in 2024.
The Russian emigre news outlet The Insider listed Patriotic Alternative among the organisations sending representatives to an international congress of far-right and neo-Nazi movements held in the Mariinsky Palace in St. Petersburg in September 2025.