I've often heard that the extremism of figures such as Oswald Mosley, Enoch Powell, and others, were typically laughed at by the majority of Brits in the 1920s and 30s with some of the reasons why being chalked up to the hilarity that demagoguery and fiery political rhetoric was/is viewed by the British media.
It could be nonsense, but as it says, was/is their something unique about British culture that made it naturally resistant to the allure of extremism in the 1920s and 30s?
If so, what traits made it so?