Currently on sale on eBay is this shocking ‘Keep Brixton White’ campaign pamphlet, which names the Union Movement’s three candidates for the London County Council Elections of March 31st, 1955.
Founded by the fascist Oswald Mosley, the far-right Union Movement campaigned on an anti-immigration platform, calling for forced repatriation of Caribbean immigrants as well as a prohibition upon mixed marriages.
The arguments and newspaper headlines reproduced in the party’s election leaflet are depressingly similar to what you might read in the Daily Mail today, with claims about ‘spongers,’ ‘work-shys’ finding ‘paradise in Britain’ and immigrants supposedly depriving ‘British families’ of their homes.
[Oswald Mosley at fascist rally in east London, 1936]
Thankfully, the vast majority of the British public were having none of Mosley’s racist scaremongering, and his subsequent attempts to get elected in 1958 and 1966 both ended in miserable failures, with the humiliated fascist losing his deposit.
Read more:
Oswald Mosley: Memories of an unrepentant fascist [New Statesman]
Union Movement [wikipedia]
The Guns of Brixton – London Riot soundtracks
Mosley was right, if we’d listened to him in 1955 we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today!
Get back to your cave, Eddy.
Mosley was a visionary, he realised in 1951 the danger of mass coloured immigration. How many people have died because this mad multi-racial experiment that was forced on us.
It’s a crying shame this wasn’t listened to. It’s not about race it’s about culture – many parts of many towns and cities in Britain are British only on paper. Only 55% of people in London weren’t born in England.
Says Richard the racist posting from Australia.