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This Was Their Darkest Hour
The Sun Rises Yet Again
Chapter 2: This Was Their Darkest Hour
December 6, 1924
Election Day in Britain
"Today's the day. I went down to my station already and voted and pretty much everyone I know is going too; we might actually have the highest turnout ever today. Stanley thought he was safe once he bought his way into office. Little did he know Mosley and MacDonald were having none of that. They formed a joint Vicky-Labour coalition against him which barred him from getting anything done. In response he called a snap election to increase the Conservative's numbers to a point where he can push his ideas past Parliament. The election is today and my family, my friends and my neighborhood are all voting for Oswald Mosley and The Victorian Union as they are the only ones saying what needs to be said, promising to do what needs to be done and Sir Mosley is a military man himself. I have a feeling that he can pull off a victory as the VU has been rising ever since its formation in 1919 with the help of a few influential people such as Viscount Harold Harmsworth and Crown Prince David as well as the boom in membership since the Depression hit Britain. Now might be our chance to seize the day and make Britannia great again! All hail Victorianism and all hail victory!"
This is it, this is the day. In 12 hours we will know if all those papers written and radio talks broadcasted and all the hours spent cosying up to whatever influential politician, business or enlisted man who would give us the time of day actually paid off. My entourage and I are heading off to London to attempt to shatter that bastion of liberalism. I am quite gay that I was able to broadcast another speech with Crown Prince David, much to his father's disdain. I gladly await the day when men of such high intellect and character guide this great nation once more. I extinguish my fag and I enter the car and we are off to London. On the way I see crowds auspiciously cheering my name, "Mosley, Mosley! A vote for the VU is a vote for a better Britain!", I smile inwardly. I roll down the windows and yell to them, "Nay! A greater Britain!" They cheer at the sound of my voice and make a deafening sound which I could almost believe can be heard for miles.
I reach London soon enough, I visit the voting booths to raise morale and encourage higher turnout, I shake the hands of hard working and honest British men who will vote for VU, I kiss the hands of beautiful, bountiful and undoubtedly loyal women who will one day become the mothers who will no doubt birth the future generations full of youth and vibrance. These future generations will be the ones that will continue Britain's greatness into the future indefinitely. This well of youth, hope and optimism fills me with energy and I feel a feeling I have not truly experienced since I was upon the fields of France fighting the Fritz, a primal and boundless energy that cannot be traced or artificially produced or incited through one's own will or actions on purpose. It cannot be sought, only discovered fortuitously through living one's life as one wishes. I leave the booths and walk with my entourage to Number 10 to a rally we have staged there to gather support, I will give a speech there. I arrive there at noon. I head up onto the podium and begin to speak.
Oswald Mosley
"My fellow Britons, grant me silence so that I may explain the righteousness and justness of our cause. People who disagree with my ideas often ask me, 'Why do you support this crazy ideology? You are a cultist and a madman', the irony is that this cannot be farther than the truth. The reason why Victorianism has arisen and is spreading among the British people is rather simple. Victorianism is an explosion, a reaction, against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world fails to remedy. It is a movement to secure national renaissance by people who feel themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death but are determined to live, and live greatly. There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is, we my friends are in the former. To deny the coming change is suicidal, neglectful, and selfish, for you hurt not only yourselves but also all of Britain and her people. I hope this inspires you to make the right choice today. God save the King. And one last thing to those who are still opposed to me, I have but 4 words for you...
The Future is Present
As Pictured Below, Members of the Victorian Union Hard at Work to Spread Their Beliefs
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Oswald Mosley Giving His Famous "The Future is Present" Speech
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Chapter 2: This Was Their Darkest Hour
December 6, 1924
Election Day in Britain
"Today's the day. I went down to my station already and voted and pretty much everyone I know is going too; we might actually have the highest turnout ever today. Stanley thought he was safe once he bought his way into office. Little did he know Mosley and MacDonald were having none of that. They formed a joint Vicky-Labour coalition against him which barred him from getting anything done. In response he called a snap election to increase the Conservative's numbers to a point where he can push his ideas past Parliament. The election is today and my family, my friends and my neighborhood are all voting for Oswald Mosley and The Victorian Union as they are the only ones saying what needs to be said, promising to do what needs to be done and Sir Mosley is a military man himself. I have a feeling that he can pull off a victory as the VU has been rising ever since its formation in 1919 with the help of a few influential people such as Viscount Harold Harmsworth and Crown Prince David as well as the boom in membership since the Depression hit Britain. Now might be our chance to seize the day and make Britannia great again! All hail Victorianism and all hail victory!"
This is it, this is the day. In 12 hours we will know if all those papers written and radio talks broadcasted and all the hours spent cosying up to whatever influential politician, business or enlisted man who would give us the time of day actually paid off. My entourage and I are heading off to London to attempt to shatter that bastion of liberalism. I am quite gay that I was able to broadcast another speech with Crown Prince David, much to his father's disdain. I gladly await the day when men of such high intellect and character guide this great nation once more. I extinguish my fag and I enter the car and we are off to London. On the way I see crowds auspiciously cheering my name, "Mosley, Mosley! A vote for the VU is a vote for a better Britain!", I smile inwardly. I roll down the windows and yell to them, "Nay! A greater Britain!" They cheer at the sound of my voice and make a deafening sound which I could almost believe can be heard for miles.
I reach London soon enough, I visit the voting booths to raise morale and encourage higher turnout, I shake the hands of hard working and honest British men who will vote for VU, I kiss the hands of beautiful, bountiful and undoubtedly loyal women who will one day become the mothers who will no doubt birth the future generations full of youth and vibrance. These future generations will be the ones that will continue Britain's greatness into the future indefinitely. This well of youth, hope and optimism fills me with energy and I feel a feeling I have not truly experienced since I was upon the fields of France fighting the Fritz, a primal and boundless energy that cannot be traced or artificially produced or incited through one's own will or actions on purpose. It cannot be sought, only discovered fortuitously through living one's life as one wishes. I leave the booths and walk with my entourage to Number 10 to a rally we have staged there to gather support, I will give a speech there. I arrive there at noon. I head up onto the podium and begin to speak.
Oswald Mosley
"My fellow Britons, grant me silence so that I may explain the righteousness and justness of our cause. People who disagree with my ideas often ask me, 'Why do you support this crazy ideology? You are a cultist and a madman', the irony is that this cannot be farther than the truth. The reason why Victorianism has arisen and is spreading among the British people is rather simple. Victorianism is an explosion, a reaction, against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world fails to remedy. It is a movement to secure national renaissance by people who feel themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death but are determined to live, and live greatly. There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is, we my friends are in the former. To deny the coming change is suicidal, neglectful, and selfish, for you hurt not only yourselves but also all of Britain and her people. I hope this inspires you to make the right choice today. God save the King. And one last thing to those who are still opposed to me, I have but 4 words for you...
The Future is Present
As Pictured Below, Members of the Victorian Union Hard at Work to Spread Their Beliefs
View attachment 358997
Oswald Mosley Giving His Famous "The Future is Present" Speech
View attachment 358990
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