REAL HISTORY: Oswald Mosley was a British anti-war politician who became the most prominent nationalist leader in the United Kingdom.

Sir Oswald Mosley was best known for founding and leading the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in the 1930s.

Born in London on 16 November 1896 into an aristocratic family, Mosley at 18 years of age served as a cavalry officer with distinction in World War I and later in the Royal Flying Corps.

The decorated veteran entered Parliament at just 21 years old, becoming one of the youngest MPs of his era.

His political journey

The gifted, personable and well-connected Oswald Mosley moved rapidly through the political spectrum:

•       Conservative MP (1918–1922)

•       Independent MP (1922–1924)

•       Labour MP (1924–1931)

•       Founded the short‑lived New Party in 1931

•       In 1932, after visiting the amazing futurist Italy and meeting the elected head of state, Benito Mussolini, he founded the British Union of Fascists.

Mosley adopted black‑shirt uniforms. Like Mosley himself, many of the supporters of the British Union of Fascists were veterans of the calamitous Brothers War (1914-1918.

The vitality-plus charismatic leader of the movement was considered to be on the same page as Adolf Hitler and Spain’s Francisco Franco, who were also war veterans.

His movement gained attention through marches, parades, public rallies and meetings.

His most famous was the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, where tens of thousands of anti‑fascist demonstrators organized by the Jewish Communist parties attacked and fought tooth and nail against Britain’s anti-war veterans of world War I.

The joke doing the rounds of the British Union of Fascists at this time was that the Jewish national anthem was, ‘Onward Christian Soldiers.’

‘Let us be fair to these people who were imprisoned under 18B.

Let us remember that they have never been accused of any crime; not only have they not been convicted of any crime, but they have never been accused of any crime. 

This should be remembered in all fairness to them.’ – Lord Jowett, the Lord Chancellor to the House of Lords, December 11th 1946.

Decline and later life

The BUF campaigned vigorously against the Westminster-provoked war against the Workers Reich. For this reason, Mosley’s movement was banned, and their leaders, supporters and wives were imprisoned indefinitely

Released in 1943, he later attempted a political comeback with the Union Movement, but never regained influence. The then living in France Sir Oswald Mosley, passed to the higher realms in 1980.

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