Did he ever have a chance?

>>3041731
of taking over as a fascist? No

of taking over as leader of the labour party? Yes

>>3041909
>of taking over as a fascist? No

why the heck not

BEADY

>>3041731
>muh D I R E C T R U L E F R O M L O N D O N

he was never good as a socialist nor a fascist

>>3042038
Heebs

>>3041731
No because he was a flip flopper and a champagne socialist

>>3042038
Fascism requires a sense of desperation and disillusionment among the people in order to be successful. Britain didn't have that in the Interwar Period. Honestly, it's incredible that he got as far as he did.

>>3042180
>>3042189
>>3042206
The problem with him I think is that he flipped between so many fucking positions. He kept his core ideals but first he was a social Tory, then he LARPed as a working class comrade before going to Italy and thinking blackshirts look cool so he adapts that style for his party. This is without realising that just copy pasting Italian fascism to Britain isn't going to help him since the UK is known for going AGAINST European currents.

Fascism was usually adopted to the country it was in. Hitler's was called National Socialism, Mussolini's National Fascism, Franco's was Falangism, Salazar's was corporatism. And then Mosley goes and calls his... fascism. I think the style of fascism of Mosley's would go for a Britain that lost the war and maybe a lot of colonies, but as >>3042206 said, there was no desperation for Italian/German style fascism. Fascism in Britain would've probably been more like Franco's Spain.