Sir Oswald Mosley ...

[Baron Kurtz]

Being treated as he deserved, 1962. He thought the working classes would flock to his racist agenda. He was wrong, And never learned his lesson. 30 years after he first started on his fascist crusade. Receiving as little support as ever. Video quite funny.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/31/newsid_2776000/2776295.stm

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[jake_fink]

The video quality is very poor, but that aside: :eusa_clap

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Sure, i would love to see close-ups of Mosley getting clocked, but you know, live news video from the 60s is not the best.

It's enough to know that amidst the surging crowd this moustachioed micro-megalomaniac (many thanks Mr Hitchens) was being trampled a bit by the very people he proposed to woo.

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[jake_fink]

Sure, i would love to see close-ups of Mosley getting clocked, but you know, live news video from the 60s is not the best.

It's enough to know that amidst the surging crowd this moustachioed micro-megalomaniac (many thanks Mr Hitchens) was being trampled a bit by the very people he proposed to woo.

bk

I meant the tiny, badly pixilated video as posted not the quality of the original footage. And yes, it is heartening, though he should have been soundly pummeled a quarter century earlier and long out of business by 1962. Eric Blair/George Orwell watched Mosely turn a crowd around from antipathetic to warmly receptive in the demagogue's hey day.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Mosely was put in his place most effectively by P. G. Wodehouse back in 1938 -- no one who's ever read "The Code of the Woosters" will ever quite forget Sir Roderick Spode, leader of the Black Shorts -- "because all the best shirt colors were already taken."

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Yeah, that's a funny story. The TV series also did that story. Stephen Fry played Jeeves and Hugh Laurie (House, MD) playing Bertie. Great

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[G. Fink-Nottle]

Mosely and his wife, Diana, were bad people. It's is as simple as that. They should never have been released from prison. They should have spent the rest of their lives watching films from the death camps.