People talk about British guilt for the rise of Nazism. Or else they deny it, and stress Britain did to defeat the Nazis.
I want to refine this discussion. Add a new term, Upper London, to make it clear that there was a solid political block than included most MPs, newspaper owners and the independent rich. These people have never been out of power, though from the 1940s till the 1980s they conceded much. Conceded things that are now declared ruinous or impossible, for as long as the Soviet Union was seen as a serious threat.
It is not the same as the idea of a deep state. The senior levels of police and military and civil service are in tune with it, but the core of the power lies with the independent rich.
It is also nothing to do with a corporation called Upper London, an advisory service that I found when I googled. I know nothing about them, but I assume they are just another consultancy. Not important enough to have a Wikipedia entry.
On this page, I am collecting a number of articles written over the years.
This includes descriptions of how much of Nazism was anticipated by the British Empire.
Hitler frequently said that the British Empire was a model. And so was the USA, which had racial segregation and exterminations of unwanted populations, and even ideas for ‘racial improvement’. And while a lot of what he said was lies or fantasy, on this he was pretty much correct.
There was also a lot of sympathy for Mussolini on the British Center-Right. Practical help for Franco in Spain. And Churchill was exceptional in deciding that Hitler was something different. His views were more anti-German than anti-fascist, though of necessity he had to work with genuine anti-fascists.
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