I know that it is completely ASB for Oswald Mosley (and I'm talking about the Fascist incarnation, not the earlier ones) and his British Union of Fascists to come to power in Britain and establish a full-fledged Fascist dictatorship, but for reasons of hypothetical exploration, what if he did? What would such a state and such a Britain look like?
Possible scenarios for Mosley's rise to power (both equally ASB) are A.) A political and military coup d'etat involving a conspiracy with King Edward VIII (the plot of Guy Walters' book The Leader) , OR B.) A German invasion installs Mosley as puppet leader.
The first option would allow for much more freedom for Mosley and his BUF program to pursue a truly native British fascism, as obviously the second one would see his regime heavily influenced by German Nazism and require him to give in to crazy German demands of sending the UK's workforce to labour in Russia, giving away RN battleships and seapower, paying reparations, etc. It would be like the difference between the original Italian Fascist state that Mussolini founded in the 20's and the "Italian Social Republic" of 1943, which was a pure Nazi creation and puppet.
According to Wikipedia, British society will be remodeled in this fashion;
Possible scenarios for Mosley's rise to power (both equally ASB) are A.) A political and military coup d'etat involving a conspiracy with King Edward VIII (the plot of Guy Walters' book The Leader) , OR B.) A German invasion installs Mosley as puppet leader.
The first option would allow for much more freedom for Mosley and his BUF program to pursue a truly native British fascism, as obviously the second one would see his regime heavily influenced by German Nazism and require him to give in to crazy German demands of sending the UK's workforce to labour in Russia, giving away RN battleships and seapower, paying reparations, etc. It would be like the difference between the original Italian Fascist state that Mussolini founded in the 20's and the "Italian Social Republic" of 1943, which was a pure Nazi creation and puppet.
According to Wikipedia, British society will be remodeled in this fashion;
But what exactly would the implementation of this programme look like? How "fascist", dictatorial and totalitarian, would Mosley and the BUF be once in power? To what extent could Britain's free and democratic traditions be changed and replaced by the Fascists? Would other parties be abolished? How would this affect the Empire? Would the concentration camps on the Isle of Man be reopened? What else could be said of this hypothetical BUF regime?Mosley, known to his followers as The Leader, modelled his leadership style on Benito Mussolini and the BUF on Mussolini's National Fascist Party in Italy, including an imitation of the Italian Fascists' black uniforms for members, earning them the nickname "Blackshirts". The BUF was anti-communist and protectionist, and proposed replacing parliamentary democracy with executives elected to represent specific industries, trades or other professional interest groups – a system similar to the corporatism of the Italian fascists. Unlike the Italian system, British fascist corporatism planned to replace the House of Lords with elected executives drawn from major industries, the clergy, and colonies. The House of Commons was to be reduced to allow for a faster, "less factionist" democracy.[2]
The BUF's programme and ideology were outlined in Mosley's Great Britain (1932) and A. Raven Thompson's The Coming Corporate State (1938). Many BUF policies were built on isolationism, prohibiting trade outside an insulated British Empire. Mosley’s system aimed to protect the British economy from the fluctuations of the world market, especially during the Great Depression, and prevent "cheap slave competition from abroad." [3]