IMPERIAL FASCIST LEAGUE

Somewhere around Charing Cross in London, sometime around 1930 or so, a rather disturbing sight for passing pedestrians going about their everyday business:

Swastika superimposed upon the Union Jack, c. 1930.

An even more disturbing image when colourised:

It appears that the lady Standard Bearer was none other than Mrs Leese, wife of "the Leader" of the Imperial Fascist League, Arnold Leese, camel vet and vicious anti-Semite. Arnold Leese was no admirer of Mosley and the BUF, labelling them as "kosher fascists". Full wiki bio HERE

[Hereford VBCW Note : Anglicans will remember how the Company of St. Michael, featured HERE, had to withdraw from Malvern at the beginning of the Hereford VBCW, by reason of the presence (amongst others) of the "British Fascisti" in the town. Leese was a member of the British Fascisti until 1928, when he left to found the Imperial Fascist League. See the wiki entry HERE. As the British Fascisti (or British Fascists) ceased to exist on a national basis in or about 1934, it is presently unclear whether the Malvern Fascists were a last remnant of the organisation, or Imperial Fascists, or an as yet undiscovered "fascist groupuscule". In any event, they were certainly independent of Mosley's BUF.]