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THE END OF THE DAY PARADISE (1935–1959)
London, 15th November 1938
Oswald Mosley feels very satisfied with the election results. Having returned about twelve percent of the vote, the British Union of Fascists now stands to broker a coalition with Neville Chamberlain, that sheep in sheep’s clothing. What had made the difference? Oswald isn’t sure if he knows himself; his victory at Cable Street? The defection of Halifax and his mob of senior Tories? The shattering of Labour? Who can say. Of-course, for now, Oswald will have to be content with a minor cabinet position, Deputy Minister of the Interior, but from there his ambitions are bound only by the limits of his own imagination.
He thinks back on his exit from the Labour Party and his foundation of the New Party, the new beginning. It will be his first time returning to parliament in six years. They’d mocked him then, said he’d be entering the Dustbin of History, more the fools they. The BUF was a combination of many of the smaller fascist movements that had sprung up after Mussolini’s March on Rome. He, the great Helmsman, had welded them together and out of the disparate mass he had formed an indivisible whole. His victory is certain, it is only a matter of time.
As he strolls along the bank of the Thames on the morning of November 15th he finds himself whistling Wagner.