A Blackshirt walking along a main London street tries to push past an older member of the House of Lords. He tells the peer to make way for the future and receives a blow from the older man's cane. The anecdote is offered as a true story from the period, although neither man is named. The exchange centres on the Blackshirt's demand for deference and the peer's refusal to give it.
Notable Point · 55:41-56:16
A Blackshirt and a peer's cane
In an interwar anecdote, a Blackshirt demands that an older peer yield to 'the future,' and the peer answers with his walking cane.