“And the Blackshirts were just a male choral and folk-dance society, were they?”
No, that was the brownshirts.
“The man was an opportunist fascist Nazi-loving thug – end of story.”
opportunist? On what grounds? Fascist? yes. Nazi-loving? He had friends who were Nazis. Thug? Quantify thug please.
“by their friends shall ye know them.”
Nope, that’s a generalised assumption, and therefore prejudiced.
Good list Mr Onthefence.
Of course with the benefit of hindsight everyone was anti-Nazi in 1945 and anti Semitism became a bad word.
All this was not strangely the case in the thirties when both sympathy for the Nazi’s and anti Semitism weren’t uncommon–here or elsewhere, especially among the middle classes.
So, are we going to include all of those along with Mosley–who was I admit a somewhat extreme case.
Oh, and Grey Area.
Just for the minute book.
The Dardanelles campaign was extremely unpleasant if you happened to be at ANZAC Cove and that little encounter killed a lot of Australians and Kiwi’s. However far more Brits died at Gallipoli than did colonials and even the French (that much maligned nation) lost more more there than the ANZACS.
As far as worst Briton goes has anyone thought of Margaret Thatcher???
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