Oswald Mosley

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**Oswald Ernald Mosley.** A name more famous than most other in the first half of the 20th century in the British Isles. From the man who delivered Birmingham to the Revolution in the Speech of 1925, to the man who delivered the British republic to his hand in 1937. Born into the typical English aristocracy stock that spent life in Sandhurst, the firebrand to both Labour and Conservative in the old days before the Revolution. Oswald Mosley was many things, but never not a leader.

## **From War to Home**

Consumed by the fever of patriotism and the war like most Englishmen in the year 1914, he would go on to serve during the First Great War with distinction although as a junior officer although bravery in combat forced him to leave the battlefield too soon. Recalled home before the ends of the war, Mosely would not see for himself how France would burn in the fire of revolution, but the as he went back to the shore of old Britainia a changed man physically, the cruel old world now seems to mock him and Mosley was no more another heir of the age old English nobility. Turned to politics in a time of British society in great crisis, the fear of Jacobinism and Bolshevikism from across the sea marks its dread on the entire English social life of old and the fire that boil from underneath the ivory towers.

Entered politics easily as a Unionist, with his feudal connections it was easy to bring a him to make it, yet, but the populist in the rank of the age old conservatives in an era of fire soon found himself out of the party list as the social situation in the country detoriated with mutinies and riots as well as the costly struggle oversea in Ireland, Russia and across the Empire as the collapse of France and the war defeat cracked the old British Empire as well, espeically in India where tens of thousands British soldiers would be forced to see service in another foreign land instead of demobilisation due to the ongoing revolt.

There, in 1924 already made himself a name, he crossed the floor to the imploding Labour Party and their increasingly radical Independent Labour, where his fame would still skyrocket, to the sneer of some as a sort of "rich socialist" and "bourgeois populist".

## Revolution

But one can not forget that Mosley at 20s is but a man among many in those days, he was not the party leader, his name frequents the press but he has no popular base, the working class did not hear about the socialist baronet. But the Revolution, as a people tired of war, burdened by poverty in an economy collapsed and in its kneel as the economic crisis followed the war and reparation, took to the street. Spontanous and spreading like, the Great British General Strike of 1925 in its two months of leading up led to a complete paralysisation and a state of civil war in the country. Unlike his collegues in the party, thrown into confusion of the fear of radicals and bolsheviks, Mosley however joined the pickett and in one of the most famous episode of the General Strike, the Birmingham speech, where 100,000 workers and protesters behind Mosley stopped in its track the military and police trying to contain the Strike in London, a moment occasionally marked as the beginning of the revolution as the entire Britain is now in a state of riot.