“Our Message Can Be Summarized with These Words: Britain First”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the Speech of Oswald Mosley’s character from the Peaky Blinders Series

Fascism is a radical and polemic political movement that had its origin in Italy after World War I. Thereupon, different versions of this ideology emerged several European countries such as England, where Oswald Mosley was precursor the founder British Union Fascists. Through his powerful speeches, he achieved to persuade English elite help him position himself leader establish fascism Britain. This article addresses fictitious interpretation giving speech middle sophisticated party. The main intention work explore mechanisms persuasion employed by version address audiences convince them accept message. Some findings reveal use polite expressions well remarkable confidence speech, helped gain sympathy listeners.