Why did fascism never get anywhere in the British isles?

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Well just wait and watch Theresa May.

Distrust of militarism (yeah yeah inb4 le eternal anglo)

They are too smart for it.

Actual answer: Britain had a long tradition of parliamentary democracy and gradual reformism and was much more politically stable than early 1920s Italy or early 1930s Germany. The bigger shock is that France maintained its democracy until 1940.

Britain is an isle of radical centrists

Fascism has a number of requirements before it can really take root.

1) A sense that the country is in the middle of an existential crisis. Moreover, the "legitimate" government has to be seen as failing to deal with the crisis. This is compounded by...
2) The credible threat of a Bolshevik takeover. Most people don't like commies, so they will flock to anti-commie groups if it's apparent that the red hydra is spreading.
3) Unstable Democracy/Recent history of authoritarian rule. Germany, Austria, Hungary and the rest had until very recently been ruled by absolute monarchs. By the end of the First World War, Germany was essentially a military Junta. Fascism was seen as the happy compromise of supreme executive and popular appeal, similar to the role Napoleon had filled a century earlier.
4) is kind of optional, but fascists also tended to be able to harp about "Muh rightful clay," be it muh Danzing, muh Dalmatia, muh treaty of Trianon, muh Gibraltar, etc

The UK had a long history of parliamentary democracy, and despite the challenges of the Great Depression could still claim to be one of if not the strongest power in the world. Fascism had a better chance of taking root in America, and may well have done so if the New Deal wasn't so popularly received/FDR hadn't had Long killed.

OP is talking about Ireland I think. Eoin O'Duffy wasn't British and I think he would've objected to the term "British Isles" pretty strongly

>post a picture of an Irish fascist
>say "British isles" when Irish fascism and British fascism were completely diff
What did OP mean by this?

I suppose I did it in a clever attempt to get more replies/bumps

Because the ACA couldn't draw upon a well of public sentient as a good portion of the Irish population thought Duffy was shitting all over the legacy of Collins

>fascism
>America

lol
country of mutts owned by jews

>muh joos

Fuck off Adolph, your autistic ass ideology poisoned a perfectly good branch of political thinking.

If we're just talking about O'Duffy and the Blueshirts in Ireland:
>he wasn't a very good orator. he saw himself as an "Irish Mussolini" but lots of people saw him as almost comical in the way he talked. I remember reading a story somewhere about him getting heckled and BTFO'd at a rally by an old woman. plenty of people agreed with him of course, but he wasn't good at persuading newcomers to his cause unlike successful fascist leaders
>his movement essentially revolved around reigniting Civil War tensions when those wounds were still tender and most ordinary people were trying to move on
>he advocated invading Northern Ireland; anyone with half a brain knew this was retarded but the rest of his rhetoric alienated any IRA men who might've gone along with this
>Ireland was very conservative and catholic but not rabidly so. an important thing to realise is that Irish people had always valued social/religious conservatism over economic concerns
>the cause of Irish socialism more or less died with Larkin and Connolly; the IRA radicals O'Duffy's blueshirts clashed with notwithstanding the ACA were basically tilting at windmills with their hardline anti-communism
>O'Duffy's fall from grace came at around the same time the free state govt finally settled the land annuities with the UK. with the land question settled, most Irish farmers didn't really care about other big ideas. also they already had representation in the Dáil via the Farmer's Party (and guaranteed clout in govt besides) so what could the ACA offer them?
>O'Duffy's corporatism ideas are interesting in hindsight but (southern) Ireland was not nearly industrialised enough to support them
>last but not least: the Spanish civil war fiasco was the last nail in the coffin. the whole thing was a shitshow and even his most loyal men got fed up with his bs and started calling him "O'Scruffy"

Obviously because even the Leftists in England are Romantic Monarchists.

I mean, even George Orwell called himself a Tory Socialist.

Brits are just their own kind of peculiarity.

Was there a meaningful Irish Fascist movement? I'm assuming that they were bent out of shape because "Muh Ulster?"

First class post, this is why I visit Veeky Forums. Except for the last setence though.

T. Historian

O'Duffy was a meme, and the only Irish fascist movement that managed to be even slightly relevant, Ailtirí na hAiséirghe, came too late and was suppressed by wartime censorship and later lost its members to Clann na Poblachta: historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/ailtiri-na-haiseirghe-irelands-fascist-new-order/

>implying FDR didn't have Long killed

The man was a fucking softie on bankers.

this. being an island nation, they had natural defenses from invaders so democracy was able thrive.

Cuz' Churchill

Fascism is a revolutionary ideology. Britain has perfidy and political judo wrapped up. The real question is, hoe did the Wiemar allow itself to be consumed?

he liked the drink and little boys though.

Jewish influence.

BUF did alright