When Fascists Were Met With Bricks

On this day, October 1936, Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists planned to march through a predominantly Jewish section of East London.

Instead, the Battle of Cable Street occured, with Mosley’s fascists met by over 100,000 local residents and workers who insisted that 'They shall not pass!' and who fought both the blackshirts and the police protecting them, forcing the march to be abandoned.

What’s this have to do with terriers?

Before he became a British conservative party politician (1939), Jocelyn Lucas was a leading supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists fascists (1935). Before that, of course, he wrote about working terriers (1931), and produced a book on puppy peddling (1925).

The fascists were more or less absorbed into the British conservative party with various eruptions into various white supremacy and white nationalist factions, such as the British Nationalist Party and UKIP.

A bit more on the ugly end of the politics of dogs here.