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in. The would-be Leader of Britain was really – truly
– loathed the length and breadth of the land. Oswald
and Diana seemed to bear this hatred with an attitude
beyond the straightforward arrogance which was their
defining nature, and into a whole other worldly netherrealm
of bitter fantasy. It was the Jews who hated them,
the establishment, the government – certainly not the
good old British people. These demonstrations were
the results of the Jewish cabal that had Britain in its
grip … surely?
His solipsism increased by incarceration, Mosley
took to writing at greater length, honing his philosophy
in ever more verbose terminology. He claimed to have
now moved “beyond Fascism”, and propounded that
he had found a unique “synthesis”, beyond the both
capitalist and socialist ethic, fusing Christianity and
the ideals of Nietzsche, combining dictatorship and
democracy. But the schism between his feigning of
esoteric high mindedness and the squalor of his day-today
political activities became starker than ever when
he began his new party in 1947 – the Union Movement.
The same gang of dysfunctional Jew baiters were to
continue their street fighting, to a mixture of disgust
and indifference from the general populace (gaining for
instance less than 2000 votes in the whole of London
during local elections in 1949). The full extent of the
Nazi horrors, the millions of innocent souls butchered
in the camps, was now evident, discrediting Mosley’s
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mob as never before. Accordingly, the calibre of the
UM member was even lower than that of the BU before
them, a selection of gangsters, psychopaths and street
thugs, with the odd loopy Lord thrown in.
This sorry pack were eventually to find a new
scapegoat, and a short-lived new lease of life with the
‘coloured immigration’ of the 50s. As tensions grew in
sections of the white population towards the novel new
migrants from the Caribbean and Indian sub-continent,
the UM had some success in actively encouraging
race riots, in particular the Notting Hill riot of 1958.
Their success in leading to smashed windows and
broken bones did not translate into votes however, and
the fetid nature of their street activity stood in starker
contrast than ever from Mosley’s increasingly abstruse
theorising. His new vision was of a United Europe, national
boundaries broken down among the great White
brotherhood, who would in turn go to plunder what
they needed from Africa, using their superior colonial
know-how. Ironic that a movement now recruiting on
an anti-immigrant platform should have as its ultimate
goal the large scale immigration of a white master class
to the African continent. This was grotesque racism
sure enough, but it was neither populist nor popular.
Even amongst rising anti-immigration feeling, the UM
could not truly take off.
Ultimately it was to be Mosley’s intellectualism that
was the final death knell of his movement. The issue of
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