Two hilly, wooded parcels of land in Llanafan Fawr have been bought by the Woodlander Initiative (TWI), a land-buying scheme led by Simon Birkett, a far-right figure with links to Patriotic Alternative, the UK’s largest fascist group. Critics say Wiltshire-based Birkett’s aim is to create a racially exclusive settlement; he has cited Orania, a whites-only town in South Africa, as an inspiration for the project....(Birkett denies it is a white supremacist organisation, but) in a recent article, Birkett invoked the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, claiming that “those in power” are “intentionally replacing one population with another”, and that “white Europeans are being outbred” by migrants.

