Prevent Mosley from storming off and keep him in the Labour party, have him take over as caretaker after the National Labour breakaway, leading the party into a somewhat better election result due to Mosleys popularity and populist rhetoric. He continues as a passionate leader of the opposition against a dithering MacDonald and an invisible Baldwin humiliating the Government over Abysinnia, Spain and the continuing economic failure. In 1935 the Governments majority is sharply reduced, National Labour has been wiped out and Independent Labour has returned as a prodigal son. The Munich crisis sees Mosley on top form, gradually eroding the National Governments majority. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mosley finally seizes his moment and declares a vote of no confiedence in the Government and its appeasement policies. Chamberlain begs Mosley to wait until the current crisis has ended, Mosley refuses, declaring that the crisis is only being worsened by the National Governments continued existence. In May the new Prime Minister enters into No.10 triumphantly declared a guarantee would the given for Polands safety.
In Berlin, a non-smoking vegetarian in a silly uniform, begins to tremble. It is the calm before the storm.
That doesn't answer the OPs question of how to create a Fascist Britain. That just creates a Labour Leader of a National Governemnt in 1940 instead of Churchill.
Prevent Mosley from storming off and keep him in the Labour party, have him take over as caretaker after the National Labour breakaway, leading the party into a somewhat better election result due to Mosleys popularity and populist rhetoric. He continues as a passionate leader of the opposition against a dithering MacDonald and an invisible Baldwin humiliating the Government over Abysinnia, Spain and the continuing economic failure. In 1935 the Governments majority is sharply reduced, National Labour has been wiped out and Independent Labour has returned as a prodigal son. The Munich crisis sees Mosley on top form, gradually eroding the National Governments majority. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mosley finally seizes his moment and declares a vote of no confiedence in the Government and its appeasement policies. Chamberlain begs Mosley to wait until the current crisis has ended, Mosley refuses, declaring that the crisis is only being worsened by the National Governments continued existence. In May the new Prime Minister enters into No.10 triumphantly declared a guarantee would the given for Polands safety.
In Berlin, a non-smoking vegetarian in a silly uniform, begins to tremble. It is the calm before the storm.
If this hadn't been posted by you, I'd assume it was backhanded ideological comment on inter-war Labour from a Blimpish flyby, but as is the OP asked for a Fascist Mosley. That means jackboots on the ground.
two-party system.
Two and a tenth would be more accurate.![]()
The Mosley memorandum was rather fascist, and Britain during WW2 was quite authoritarian to boot.
But IMO even if Mosley's memorandum had been adopted it's likely that some in the Labour Party would have seen the direction Mosley was going and they would have eventually broken with a Mosleyite Labour.
Once 'old' Labour broke away they would take a lot of their core support with them and I don't think the Trades Unions would have stuck with Mosley for very long.
By the 1935 election you would see old Labour winning more seats than National Labour and Mosley's position would be weakened. Also I think the character defects of Mosley would become too obvious and he would become isolated in the National government and whatever cabinet position he had he would have faced demotion or being passed over for the top jobs. This would lead him to resign in one of the grand gestures that people like him couldn't resist.
Corporatism in theory is quite beneficial towards trade unions, especially Mosley's idea of giving them direct political representation.
Most likely, but this is the only way I can see that even has a chance of making this absurd scenario somewhat doable.
What's that?
Because I'm still new to learning about him and the interwar period of Britian and I didn't recognize the acronym.British Union of Fascists. How do you not know what that is? Thats what Mosley is famous for.