ABSTRACT

October 1959: Mosley leads followers towards the last cliff of British Fascism.

After he announces he will be the Union Movement candidate at the October 1959 general election, the sixty-three-year-old Mosley praises Teddy Boy followers as examples of fine young men. He predicts he will win. Alexander comes to Grundy’s house and lashes out at his father and says that Mosley cares nothing for his followers. Alexander says goodbye and Trevor never sees him again. Jeffrey Hamm orders them never to mention the name of Kelso Cochrane the young Antiguan carpenter murdered by six whites in North Kensington. While canvassing with his mother, a voter mistakes her for a Jewess. Mosleyites spend as much time in pubs as they do on the doorsteps of voters, and one night in a Mosley-friendly pub called the Warwick Arms, Trevor Grundy is introduced to an upper-class man who writes for The European and who is writing an article about the Mosley campaign for The Tablet. The flamboyant Alan Neame, scion of the famous brewery in Faversham, Kent, invites Trevor to supper.