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The formation of the National Government, and more permanently the consequences of the electoral tsunami, had elevated the respectable and cautious and had marginalised the radical and deviant; as Boothby had warned, all the ‘shits’ really were in one basket, and they would remain there throughout the thirties. A battered Labour Party had been radicalised by its trauma but only within firmly constitutional and electoral limits. Its political recovery would prove insufficient to revive credible hopes of office when faced with a united anti-Labour front that retained strong electoral support. Those who would be condemned as ‘Guilty Men’ dominated the political landscape. Critics unsuccessfully sought counter-strategies; only Mosley responded by founding a fascist organisation.
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Howell, D. (2015). Options. In: Mosley and British Politics 1918–32. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456397_10
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