1/ With BBC's #RidleyRoad starting on Sunday, I remind myself of Colin Jordan, Britain's would-be führer in the 1960s, overtly pro-Hitler & keen to continue Hitler's work. Photo shows his his wedding to Françoise Dior. 
2/ This was in my teenage yeears. We hated Colin Jordan more than we feared him. He had a following & militaristic aspirations but the British people were notlooking for a Hitler of their own. Françoise changed hands, between Jordan & his deputy John Tyndall...
3/...marrying first one, then the other,they flitting back to the previous paramour. she wore a diamond swastika necklace. A Jewish taxi driver wrenched it from her neck & threw it in the gutter. He got charged with assault - but I digress...
4/ Jordan later was arrested for shoplifting 3 pairs of ladies' knickers. One can learn from this: one may own a diamond swastika & still be short of the bare essentials. With hindsight, Jordan is too ridiculous to have been dangerous or so it seems...
5/ Mosley was after all perhaps the more dangerous. He was a politician. After the war, in Windrush days, he & his fascists went after black immigrants rather than Jews. He was an opportunist & thought that was the way topower.
6/ Along came Enoch Powell, the new saviour of the racist right, even able to deny his racism, by means of pseudo rationales. We should not think that where we are now is worse than where we were then.
Racism & antisemitism are not respectable now as they were & people tend to reject the overt forms although, like covid, they have their virulent variant strains.END
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