Oswald Mosley

**Oswald Ernald Mosley** is a British politician and soldier who has been Grand Protector of the Union of Britain since 1934. A veteran of the First Weltkrieg, he rose to fame during the British Revolution after leading the Birmingham Uprising and delivering various speeches inciting rebellion that were soon printed and distributed across the country. Initially sidelined in the post-Revolution order, he became prominent once more leading the Popular Revolutionary Party and its paramilitary the Blackshirts, which called for hardline revolutionary policies and became infamous for its violent tactics.

In 1930, Mosley was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Trade Union Congress, in a move which surprised reportedly even himself. From there, Mosley and the PRP's rise was meteoric, as the firebrand politician became distinguished as the leader of the hardline Maximist wing of the TUC. In 1933, alongside the French Georges Valois and Italian Benito Mussolini he became a founding ideologue of the so-called Totalist movement, which rapidly gained traction in Britain. His staggering rise seemingly came to a head in 1934, when, after the resignation of Philip Snowden, Mosley won the elections to become the TUC's second chairman.

Now in the highest position of power in the Union, Mosley oversaw vast and sweeping reform to Britain, pushing through a period of heavy centralisation and mass industrialisation in preparation for what he called the "final struggle" against the capitalist order; with the rise to power of Marcel Bucard in France in 1938, this rhetoric became focused against Germany, and from then onwards Britain prepared for war. As time went on, Mosley began to systematically strip away the democratic systems of the Union. This involved the establishment of the Ministry of Truth and the Maximist Defence Force, led by the chairman's deputies Eric Blair and John Strachey respectively, and culminated in 1937 with the Control Bill, passed in the aftermath of the abortive Clydeside Uprising, which merged the offices of Chairman and General Secretary and gave the new position - 'Grand Protector' - the right to rule by decree "for the duration of the current emergency".

From 1939 to 1945, Mosley led the Union of Britain during the Second Weltkrieg, declaring war on the German Empire alongside the Commune of France at the war's beginning. Overseeing Britain's war effort as part of the IWAF, he played the moderate to Bucard's ethnonationalistic extremism on the world stage, and was instrumental in securing the alliance between the Internationale and Russia that turned the tide of the war in their favour. In 1942 he also helped gain America's entry into the war, and in 1944 committed British troops to the Invasion of Canada which ousted the old Government-in-Exile.

By the end of the Second Weltkrieg, Mosley had emerged as the foremost of Europe's totalist leaders on the world stage, but his high popularity at home began to wane as economic depression set in as a result of massive spending during the war. Opposition to his authoritarian rule began to emerge amongst the other wings of the TUC, who had reluctantly backed the Maximists during the war but now saw no reason to stay quiet about their desire for a change in leadership. The fiasco of the Bosporus Crisis through 1948-49 humiliated international totalism and further contributed to the loss of faith in the Grand Protector's government, and spawned the beginnings of the so-called Dyatt Street Conspiracy which gained increasing sway amongst the upper levels of Mosley's government as the 1950s began. For a time it looked as though the Maximists might soon be ousted from power - this instability came to an abrupt end in 1952 after the conspiracy was exposed. Amidst the miasma of the Great Smog of London, Mosley violently dismantled the ranks of the plot in a wide-ranging purge of political opponents that became known as the Bloody Week, reaffirming his total control over the government and solidifying his dominance of the TUC by forcing through the Second Control Bill in 1953, which declared the Grand Protector Chairman for Life.