Talk:British Union of Fascists
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To the anonymous person who reverted the last change: your changes are very dubious, if you change again I will look into seeking ajudication. It would help if you abandoned anonymity. PatGallacher 11:14, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)
Apologies for anonymity. This page needs a bit of a clean up. In one paragraph we have a BUF that did well in local elections, and the next a BUF that is disillusioned with its electoral success. Which is correct? I've also removed the incorrect statement that there is no evidence of linkage with the German Nazi party - on the contrary there is plenty of evidence, starting with the proposed anglo-german fascist radio station and ending with the fact that Oswald and Diana Mosley were married in Goebbels office.
To Pat Gallacher,
You have spelled the adjudication wrong, and its usage is also somewhat incorrect; an adjudication is simply a judicial ruling. You will want to supplement it to better convey your intentions.
To Anonymous,
Your assertions about connections between the National Socialist German Workers Party and British Union of Fascists are correct; there are many accounts of personal relationships between BUF leaders and NSDAP leaders, such as the one you have mentioned between Sir Oswald and Goebbels. William S. Morris
to those above
Mosley and Mitford married Goebbels office for the sake of Diana, she refused to marry Mosley without her sister Unity's presence, Unity wouldnt leave Germany and as a Fascist politician Mosley was offered the grand premises of Gobbels' estate for their wedding which they accepted. the BUF was anti-german, atleast until Joyce gained greater power within the party. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.150.125.43 (talk) 02:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] POV
I have asked for there to be certification in certain areas of this page as it seems to exhibit a rather sympathetic rather than objective POV about the BUF without hard evidence. If there is even scholarly opinion which suggests these interpretation, it would be nice to know of it.--Tdgtdg 16:24, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Far right in UK
I have added the far right in the UK category box to this article, but unfortunatley I don't know how to add the BUF into the category box Dexterj 12:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A heavy bias against women
Like unfortunately many other articles in the Wikipedia also this article has a heavy bias against women. Although women have played a major part in the BUF, and even a bigger part in other Fascist organizations such as the IFL (Imperial Fascist League) and the Right Club, not one of them appears in the article and neither does the fact that 25 per cent of the members of the BUF were women, which is a truly enormous figure, if you consider the general low state of feminine political participation of that time and the on the surface antifeminine sound of the BUF slogans. Among these women can be found such illustrated figures as Rotha Lintorn Orman (the founder in 1923 of the first British Fascist Movement), Mary Sophia Allen (the Commandant Allen), Valerie Arkell-Smith (the Colonel Barker), and and. The importance of the Fascist women even far exceeded their proportion in the 1938 anti-war movement, when they started a separate Women's Peace Campaign in support of Mosley's "Four Steps for Peace". The parade of the blackshirted Women's Drum Corps was the highlight of the 1939 Earl's Court Peace Rally. All this has received extensive treatment in uncounted books and journal articles. The fact that it is possible in the Wikipedia, to simply ignore all the scientific evidence, and present instead a completely distorted image, gives us to think. -- Hanno Kuntze 08:33, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
- If you like, you're absolutely free to edit the article yourself, and add any/all information you consider
Germangermane, as long as you follow Wikipedia guidelines. Are you aware that you can do this? If you are, and you still choose not to participate, it seems to me that you're just as guilty of "ignoring," as anyone else involved in the writing/editing of this article. As for me, I'm not fascist and don't actually know much about the BUF, which is why I read the article in the first place, and in that process saw the need for copy-editing. I'd welcome input from a user as knowledgeable about the subject as it sounds like you are, so please do come back and help make the article perfect. Sugarbat (talk) 01:46, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Article Badly Needs Copy Edit
Example: The main attraction to this is that it would separate the British economy from the falls and fluxes of the world market Great Depression and prevent the loss of industrial production within Britain from the influence of "... labour the east, paid a third of our wages and working for ten hours a day.", and "Cheap slave competition from abroad." These were referring to the rise of western backed mass production in Indo-China similar to what is said about Chinese labour today.
This excerpt makes very little sense -- the syntax is odd, there are lots of punctuation problems, and it's just below par, generally. Can someone who knows a bit more about the material fix up the whole article? Otherwise I'll come back in a day or so and do it myself -- but I'll very likely delete things that don't make sense. I'd much rather someone edit for clarity, at least, so I don't have to delete anything.
