W/I: UK Blackshirts were Anti-Nazi

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Oswald was a vehement angolphile during his Blackshirt days correct?

Supporting British Ultra Imperialist dogma and the like.

What if during his and the blackshirt's politically active years, he and other leading members came out vocally as anti-Nazi, opposing all appeasement policies of Chamberlain's government?

Seeing Germany's rearmament as threatening British hegemony, is it conceivable that a nationalist like Oswald could potentially do this?

How would this effect both the Blackshirt movement and Oswald potential for the Premiership during and after the war?
 
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Might this not just render Mosley into a right-wing anti-Nazi, presumably like some members of the Conservative Party?

Or is there still going to be a fascist core at the centre of the ideology, notwithstanding the opposition to Hitler?
 
Might this not just render Mosley into a right-wing anti-Nazi, presumably like some members of the Conservative Party?

Or is there still going to be a fascist core at the centre of the ideology, notwithstanding the opposition to Hitler?

For the sake of the question, as well as Oswald's actually favoring of Keysian-Fascist economic policies, let's say there is still a hardline fascist core to the group that's still far right of the Tories. Just anti-Nazi in its geo-realpolitik.
 
Then he probably gets remembered as a great patriot, and 'Mosleyism'/'Socialist Imperialism' (if he opposes German and Italian fascists I doubt he'll be willing to use the same name as them even if he believes similar things—he called himself a 'socialist imperialist' in OTL, hence my suggestion of that name) gets remembered as a grand patriotic anti-fascist movement. If he does so early enough and the Blackshirts get enough seats in the House of Commons (admittedly a big ask), he might even get a position in Churchill's Cabinet.

What would then shape the future of the Blackshirts would be what stance they take with regard to Labour nationalisations fter the war. They might just end up joining one of the two big parties; they might end up a third party; if they can present themselves as 'like Labour, but patriotic' or 'like the Conservatives, but like ordinary people rather than patricians' and if the party they're rivalling suffer seriously badly (e.g. Labour backing down in an alt-Falklands crisis and thus hugely harming popular opinion of them) then they might, though probably not, even replace one of the two parties.

More likely, I think, is that they would be a grassroots pro-war right-wing movement that never got many, if even any, seats in the House of Commons and faded away after the war. He'd be the sort of wannabe politician that few people have ever heard of.
 
I think Mosley would have to change his sartorial style considerably if he wanted to be seen as an ardent anti-Nazi. As it is, his typical appearance seemed calculated to make people think of the Nazis.

I seem to recall hearing or reading somewhere that Hitler himself thought that Mosley was foolish for going so whole-hog with a Nazi-style image, since it would alienate the supposedly non-militaristic Brits.
 
Interesting. So fascist esqe politics could be welcomed in prewar Britain?

In this scenario, is Mosley outright anti-democratic, calling for the shutdown of parliament and widespread suppression of civil-liberties?

Because, maybe I've just been imbuing too much rhetorical gas about England being the cradle of freedom and whatnot, but I can't really see the British public going for someone who explicity promised to shut down civil society.

Though an ANTI-Nazi Mosley might actually get further in that regard, because he's have the whole "We are at war with a barbaric enemy, now is not the time to trifle over petty arguments about freedom and liberty." Assuming he doesn't actually make it into government, he could push the existing regime into being more authoritarian, as a supposed response to "the crisis".
 
Mosley was anti-Semitic, racist, anti-union and anti-worker. Even if he didn't support the Nazis outright (despite his politics being virtually the same) he would have been opposed by the same people that opposed him in OTL and masses of workers would have fought to keep his supporters out of their neighbourhoods regardless of how much they claimed they hated the Nazis. There's accounts from the Battle of Cable Street of Irish Catholic dockers standing shoulder to shoulder with Jewish workers, children pelting the blackshirts with marbles and women climbing onto the roofs of their homes to throw the contents of chamberpots on Mosley's supporters and the police who protected them as they passed. Having a slightly different foreign policy wouldn't have stopped the hatred ordinary people feel for fascist ideas and if you alter his politics enough he wouldn't have been a part of the fascist movement in the first place and would simply have been another right-wing Tory.
 
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