Still there is one innacuracy they don't seem to have picked up on. It comes about 40 seconds into the video when the slightly creepy sounding voiceover man says the following:
"At one point it seemed impossible to stop the tide of fascism, until Cable Street and a few good men and women got in the way"
Surely they are not trying to claim any credit for the events of the Battle of Cable Street?
Let us just remind ourselves of the details of that event. The battle took place when a British Union of Fascists (BUF) met with barricades erected by anti fascist protestors. Leading the BUF was one Oswald Mosley. Let us briefly consider him:
He was a Labour junior minister who resigned in May 1930 to form the "New Party" earning the support of a chap called Aneurin "Nye" Bevan. Name ring a bell? Probably from 35 seconds into the same video:
Still not to worry. The party collapsed after the 1931 election and Mosley went on to form the BUF with the packing of the Mail and... the Daily Mirror. Again that sounds vaguely familiar. Perhaps it is from 10 seconds into the video?
So like me I'm assuming you are wondering what connection the Labour party had to stopping the BUF. If anything it looks like they had more to do with the other side. Still in the interests of fairness let us look at who made up the counter protest. Wikipedia is kind enough to sumarise it as "local Jewish, socialist, anarchist, Irish and communist groups". No mention of the Labour party there...
In fact the only, very tenuous connection you could draw is that during the 1920s and 30s the Labour party had an uneasy on-off relationship with the Communist party. However considering they banned members from attending the counter protest, expelled those that did and organised another event on the other side of London to draw them away it is difficult to even make that connection.
Another in the long string of errors and gaffes that makes up this video but an important one I feel.
1 comments:
I think you'll find that they lie.
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