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Oswald Mosley is one of the main antagonists of the BBC crime series Peaky Blinders, serving as the main antagonist of Season 5 and 6.
Based on the real-life politician of the same name, Mosley is a fascist and political schemer who sees Thomas Shelby as a potential ally and advantage to his ambition. He is the charming leader of the British Union of Facists (BUF) and is hellbent on turning England Facist with him as future Dictator.
He was portrayed by Sam Claflin.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
Season 5[]
- He is a racist facist that supports the ideals of Adolf Hitler and other dictators like Mussolini and wants to turn England into a totalitarian regime. And thinks that with facism he can change the economic problems that England is facing during the Great Depression.
- He meets with Tommy and tells him to convert from Communism to Facism and Tommy agrees, he makes Tommy do this so he can have more powerful allies in his coup to turn England into a facist regime.
- He goes to meet with The Billy Boys (Thomas Shelby’s enemies) and makes them turn to the facist party to further his cause.
- In his first meeting with Tommy he mocked Tommy, Arthur, and Michael for trying to trick him into thinking Michael was Tommy’s brother and Arthur was just a hired gun, he subtly bragged about his power as he told Tommy that his spy’s told him that Arthur’s wife is with another man just to anger Arthur and show his power.
- Him saying that he has spy’s is also another way for him to show off as him saying that he has spy’s is him basically telling Tommy that he may or may not see his every move.
- In a conversation with Tommy he says that he met with Benito Mussolini and that Mussolini and his ideals will “shape the future” showing that discrimination and murder against the minority groups that Mussolini is racist towards its probably on top of his hit list in his plan to turn England into a facist totalitarian regime with Mosley most likely killing Jews, gypsies and other minority groups. The evidence to show this is his trademark quote of him saying “Perish Judah” which means “Death to All Jews”.
- After leaving the party that Tommy invited him to join, he left by rudely saying “An Evening full of fucking gypsies”.
- Ordered Tommy to “get rid”/kill of his company’s lawyer just because he was a Jew.
- When Tommy had evidence against Oswald with him having links with criminal organizations as Oswald signed a paper related to The Billiy Boys, Tommy sent this paper to Ben Younger, so that Ben can inform this to the government/facist party. But when Ben Younger went to his car the car exploded killing Ben and injuring 2 innocent children and killing 1.
- It’s unknown who ordered the bomb if it was Section D or Oswald himself with the Billy boys is unknown but still because of Mosley a person died alongside an innocent child. It could still easily be Oswald who ordered the bombing as he knew that signing that paper could mean that Tommy could use that against him.
- This causes Tommy to deem Mosley to dangerous to be kept alive and now plans an assassination attempt on Mosley. Oswald has a speech where he talks about Englands problems and blames all the troubles that the British People are going trough on Jewish people.
- Although he didn’t know there was an assassination attempt on him when people were dying in the riot he was very emotionless and just saw it like another day in the office.
- He even indirectly caused the riot as he let Jews join his speech even tho Oswald was insulting and demeaning Jews in the speech.
- Because of his influence The IRA as they want to turn Ireland facist too they need Mosley alive so they kill Polly Gray as a threat to the Shelby’s to never try to attack Mosley again.
Season 6[]
- He once serially cheated with his previous wife and still regularly cheats with his new fiance/wife Diana Mitford to the point where it’s serial. But to be fair Diana doesn’t care and she’s unfaithful aswell.
- He forces Tommy to prove his loyalty of the facist cause by doing the famous Nazi Salute.
- He tells Tommy to divorce Lizzie Stark just because of her past as a prostitute and because she is a gypsie and that Tommy should look for a more “suitable” wife if he wants power in this world this scene highlights Mosley great need for control of his allies not just in there political life but In there personal life aswell. It also highlights Oswald’s racism.
- He threatens Tommy that if he ever looks at his wife at the wrong direction again he would kill him.
- He orders a Doctor to tell Tommy that he has a brain tumor and doesn’t have much time to live, this is a lie so that Tommy can commit suicide and die Mosley wants Tommy dead because he saw Tommy as a threat and also probably because Tommy is a Gypsie, and Oswald being the racist he is hates that one of his allies is a gypsie. This fails tho and Tommy survives and is now coming for Mosley.
- He went to a meeting with Adolf Hitler to possibly help his cause to turn England facist.
- His manipulation skills and power over england were so great that he was one of the prime canditates for prime minister meaning that his words made a lot of the people of Great Britain admire and believe in his horrible ideals.
- When he was having intimate encounters with Lizzie Stark she described him as evil incarnate this is coming from a girl that has seen evil people her whole life. We see how he has physical intimacy with women and with Lizzie and it’s very forceful and domineering. Tommy even regarded Oswald as the Devil.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He seems to care about his fiancé/wife Diana Mitford as he got very angry when he found out that she was cheating on him with Tommy and threatened to kill him if he ever looked at her in the wrong direction or touched her this shows us that he took the anger out on Tommy and not on Diana. And he seems to act nice and non abusively with her even calling her “Darling”.
Trivia[]
- He is the only Peaky Blinders Near Pure Evil so far.
- The speech he gave in Season 5 episode 5 was actually factual and it was said word for word from the real speech and from the real Oswald Mosley’s mouth.
External Links[]
- Oswald Mosley on the Villains Wiki
- Oswald Mosley on the Peaky Blinders Wiki