Interesting history lesson, Mayor. You left out one rather awkward detail:
Oswald Mosley was not some creature who appeared fully formed from the "political right". He had been a Labour MP, sat on Labourโs NEC and was a member of the Fabian Society before founding the British Union of Fascists.
Even George Bernard Shaw, one of the great Fabian luminaries, was still publicly praising Mosley in 1932, after the BUF had been founded.
Which does rather spoil the neat little morality tale in which fascism belonged exclusively to โthe other sideโ.
History is considerably more inconvenient than a mayoral tweet.
We see you.
90 years ago today, Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts attempted to march through and intimidate a predominantly Jewish area of the East End.
Men, women and children, alongside local residents, trade unionists and anti-fascist protesters, came together to defend the community in what became known as the Battle of Cable Street.
They taught us an important lesson: communities can resist fascism by joining together.
Hate and antisemitism had no place in London then, and it has no place here now.