Peaky Blinders

I started watching "Peaky Blinders" because it begins in 1919, almost a full century ago, and thus a time far removed from the miserable Covid times in which we now find ourselves. I was seeking escape to another world. Of course this was the time of the so-called Spanish Flu but fortunately this pandemic features only marginally. I've watched five seasons so far and the sixth has yet to be released. Sadly, I've noticed an increasing Jewish bias.

Paddy Consodine as Father Hughes

It began for me with Father Hughes, the pedophile Catholic priest, played by Paddy Considine. The character is thoroughly evil and his portrayal reflects poorly on the Catholic Church. This of course is the intent. In a later episode there is a scene where Thomas Shelby and Polly make a dramatic entrance into a convent while the nuns there are seated at table, having their meals. After smashing the head nun's spectacles, Thomas accuses her of child abuse and withdraws his funding to the institution. The children under her care, he tells the nun, are to be relocated. When she protests, Polly threatens her in no uncertain manner with a grisly death. The nuns are portrayed as thoroughly evil. Now of course there are and have been pedophile priests and abusive nuns, but their presence in the Peaky Blinders storyline seems to be gratuitous Catholic-bashing.

For a time in the series, Thomas is involved with Russian nobles, living in exile in England, who have escaped the communist revolution in their country. Let's not forget that the Russian revolution of 1917 was first and foremost a Jewish revolution. In Peaky Blinders, the Russian nobility and their improbable Cossack bodyguards are portrayed as avaricious, self-absorbed, sexually degenerate and, in short, lacking any redeeming qualities whatever. It is a perfect piece of communist revolutionary propaganda that bears no resemblance to reality.

Sam Claflin playing Sir Oswald Mosley

As we enter the 1930s in the series, Oswald Mosley makes an appearance. He is the guy who started up the Fascist party in England. He was naturally close to Hitler and the German fascists and we learn that:

Cynthia (his first wife) died of peritonitis in 1933, after which Mosley married his mistress Diana Guinness, née Mitford (1910–2003). They married in secret in Germany on 6 October 1936 in the Berlin home of Germany's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Adolf Hitler was their guest of honour. Source.

In the series, Thomas refers to Mosley as "the Devil" and he is portrayed as a sexually degenerate psychopath, clearly intended as stand-in for Hitler himself. Let's not forget that Hitler himself was Time's Man of the Year in 1938 and so this whole depiction of Mosley as the devil incarnate because of his Fascist ideology in the early 1930s is historically ludicrous. It's easy to be critical of the Fascists in hindsight but during the time period under discussion, nobody had any idea of the direction things would take.

Of course, there's no requirement for Peaky Blinders to be historically accurate. What's important is to tell a good story and the series does that, which is why I watched all five seasons. However, the end result for me was that my escapism was compromised and I was thrust back into the present times were reality is being similarly distorted.