ABSTRACT
While two of the key postwar fascist ideologues, namely Mosley and Yockey, espoused transnational pan-European ideologies, many on the far right found such ideas alien and unwelcome. Many British fascists found it hard or impossible to follow Mosley or anyone else along the road to transnational Europeanism. Even within the Union Movement, the shift away from traditional nationalism was too dramatic a departure for many and resulted in some activists abandoning Mosley. Like many on the far right straight after the war he felt ‘To-day, even more so than then, it is the Empire which holds the key to Britain’s future’ and that ‘Britain then, if she is to survive, recover and advance, must look to the Empire, first and foremost, now and always’. The British tradition of conspiratorial antisemitism has a long history, but the notion that Britain itself – and importantly its empire – was under attack began life in the wake of World War I.
