What do both George Galloway and Oswald Mosley have in common? Rather a lot as it happens!
Both men have represented the North East London working-class constituency of Bethnal Green in Parliament and extremely self-confident orators. Galloway, like Mosley is a twice-married philanderer and like Mosley is a close friend of senior officials representing foreign fascist regimes. Above all else however, both men were members of Labour until Mosley left and Galloway was expelled from the party’s ranks and who then quickly formed (Mosley and the New Party, later called the British Union of Fascists) or joined (Stalinist Galloway and the Trotskyite Socialist Workers’ Party and its RESPECT vehicle) racist and anti-Jewish ultra-left-wing political organisations.
Although Galloway is not the biological son of Mosley, he is a chip off the old block in almost every other respect!
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Mosley was never MP for Bethnal Green. Originally he was MP for Harrow (1918-1924), first as a Conservative then as an independent (with leanings to the Asquith Liberals). He joined Labour in 1924 and tried to win Birmingham Ladywood, losing by a wafer to Neville Chamberlain, then won a by-election at Smethwick in 1926 which he held until the 1931 election. I forget which seat he fought and lost then, but he never sat in Parliament again.
Both represent an odious side of politics and a bullying manner.
My mistake, but Mosley did stand for election as MP for Bethnal Green.
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