Another reason for the failure of the BUF was that they had managed to gain some support because of the grim economic atmosphere of the 1930s, and once the economy began to pick up, the BUF began to wither. Mosley’s proposals of solving the unemployment issue with greater use of tariffs, governmental control of banks and early retirement schemes initially gained support, especially in London’s East End and Manchester, as other parties failed to solve the unemployment issue - the BUF appealed as it offered a different way of solving the issue. However, support soon diminished as the economy had started to recover, and the British public noticed the BUF’s sympathy for Nazi Germany in the 1930s - this made them suspect the BUF and thus no longer support them.
A final reason why the BUF failed to gain support in Britain was that in