later attended a Mosley rally in the town. To his dismay he found the audience of some seven hundred mostly supporting him. Mosley, he thought, although a very good orator, spoke ‘the usual tripe’ and tried to bamboozle the audience by seeming to speak from a socialist point of view. He was struck by how gullible the poorly educated audience seemed, and wrote to the Manchester Guardian about it, a letter which was never printed.
