Restore Britain, a splinter party headed by Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe, admitted this week that James Allchurch, a convicted neo-Nazi, is a member of the party. A spokesman acknowledged the membership and added: “This individual has no role in the party, no influence, no position.” The Mail said he “has been a member of the party since April.”
A Swansea Crown Court jury convicted Allchurch in March 2023 on 10 of 15 counts of distributing audio material to stir up racial hatred, under section 21(1) of the Public Order Act 1986. Judge Huw Rees jailed him on 15 May 2023 for two and a half years, concurrent on each count.
Allchurch broadcasts as Sven Longshanks, a reference to Edward I, who expelled Jews from England in 1290. He has hosted Radio Aryan, later Radio Albion.
Judge Rees called his content “vile.” He said “it beggars belief that someone would want to speak these words at all,” and that the offending was “a stain on our humanity.” The jury heard talk of hanging black and Jewish people, a song advocating racial segregation, and a song lauding Adolf Hitler. Allchurch is believed to have been connected to the now-banned terrorist organisation National Action.
Nick Price, then head of the CPS Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said the views Allchurch shared were “a threat to our society” and that it was “right that the jury found him guilty.” Detective Chief Superintendent James Dunkerley, of Counter Terrorism Police North East, said the recordings were “insulting and abusive” and that distributing them incited hatred.
In September, Radio Albion published a series, presented by Sven Longshanks, on Restore Britain’s paper on citizenship and ethnicity. The site’s own blurb said: “Some people have left Restore after this paper was published, but for a mainstream political party, it couldn’t really be any better.” The Mail reported that he called it “the best that we can ever get from a political party in modern Britain” and spoke of “implicit anti-Semitism.”
This website has previously reported internal, antisemitic abuse directed at Molly Kingsley, Restore Britain’s new accountability spokeswoman.
