Oswald Mosley

From Turtledove

[edit] Oswald Mosley in In the Presence of Mine Enemies

Oswald Mosley was the founder of the British Union of Fascists, a far-right political party in Britain during the 1930s. After the British defeat in World War II, the government of Nazi Germany appointed him as the Prime Minister of Britain with the BUF being the only legal party in Britain. By 2010, Mosley was long dead, but the BUF was still the only party in British politics with Charlie Lynton serving as prime minister.

The BUF was quite proud of the fact that Mosley was as prodigious a skull-cracker in his day as Adolf Hitler. This became very important in 2010 when the Party leadership sought to independently and democratically elect its leadership with minimal imput from Germany.

[edit] Oswald Mosley in Southern Victory

Oswald Mosley (b 1896) was head of the Silver Shirts, a far-right political party in Britain. He entered into a Government with the Conservative Party as junior coalition partner and became Chancellor of the Exchequer to Winston Churchill's Prime Minister. He exerted tremendous influence on the Government, making the Conservatives resemble the Silver Shirts much more than vice versa. Mosley's imput was probably useful to Prime Minister Winston Churchill's decision to declare war on Germany in 1941 (although Churchill didn't need much prodding).

By 1944, the Second Great War had completely turned against Britain. Mosley was doubling as Minister of War in Churchill's cabinet when Germany superbombed three British cities, London, Brighton and Norwich. Parliament issued a vote of non-confidence in Churchill, and Mosley fell with him.