Here's a worrying little website.

http://www.oswaldmosley.com/

Pretty nasty quotes from people who definitely should've known better.

"No rising star in the political firmament ever shone more brightly than Sir Oswald Mosley. Since by general assent he could have become the leader of either the Labour or the Conservative Party. What Mosley so valiantly stood for could have saved this country from the Hungry Thirties and the Second World War". - Michael Foot, M.P.

"The greatest comet of British politics in the twentieth century . . . an orator of the highest rank. He produced, almost unaided, a programme of economic reconstruction which surpassed anything offered by Lloyd George or, in the United States, by F. D. Roosevelt... He has continued fertile in ideas.. These ideas came to him by inspiration . . . Interned quite absurdly under Regulation 18B during the Second World War. . . He was never anti-Semitic - only opposed to a Second World War for the sake of Jews elsewhere. He was never unpatriotic - only indifferent to German conquests in eastern Europe... A superb political thinker, the best of our age". - A.J.P.Taylor

considering that he was against Chamberlain's appeasement and supported Britains entry into the war. I would love to see the context of that...

its just that when you have Foot's record, you are due some benefit of the doubt. It could be that they quoted Foot quoting someone else, for example. If not, it is of course disguisting.

the 1920's version of Mosley,before he discovered fascism.

Incredibly,he was a Labour MP,& Minister Without Portfolio,
in the Macdonald Government & joined the Independent Labour Party,
an actual democratic socialist group.

The quote sounds like an excerpt from a book review,
& it is probably Mosley's memoirs "My Life", which was
published in '68.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley

Of course, he was a Tory MP too. Tory, Labour and Fascist. That says something about the man.

Still, it seems that the Foot quote comes from around the time of Mosley's autobiography, so he knew what he was saying, and the context it would be seen in. Not wise.

And married to one of the Mitford sisters?

FSC

And I believe he was married to one of the Mitfords.

Particularly considering that AJP Taylor was a Marxist.

"He was never anti-Semitic - only opposed to a Second World War for the sake of Jews elsewhere."

So that's, what - 6 millions people he didn't give a fuck about? For starters.

Where were these mythical Jews clamouring for us to get in there and liberate them? That's exactly the kind of crap Hitler came out with.

Unfortunately, British politics tends to throw up (in the way that my cats throw up furballs)"gifted" Maverick characters who, in quest of power, are happy to jump onto the latest bandwagon.

Kiljoy-Slick is only the most recent of a long line which includes not only Mosley but Dr. David Owen and Winston Churchill alongside a gaggle of minor characters. (Remember Reg Prentice and Dick(head) Taverne? No, probably not.)

Let us not forget, also, that to large swarthes of the British and American Chattering Classes between the wars, Fascism - like Thatcherism in the 80s - was seen as a can-do, hi-tec, Democracy-is-for-wimps Great Leap Forward.

Mosley was only doing what comes naturally to rootless, unprincipled Good Looking Nowts everywhere.

The Skin

I'm sure Mosley would have been first choice for Hitler's puppet ruler.

... his "alternative history" novel in which the Nazis won. In that, the Britannic provinces were under the benevolent viceroyalty of King Edward and Queen Wallace.

I'm sure Mosley would have been suitably rewarded for his loyalty, though.

The Slin