Jeremy Corbyn’s team blasted as ‘Nazi stormtroopers’ by Jewish Labour donor
Donor claims Labour leader and his team have no respect for others or the rule of law
JEREMY Corbyn’s inner circle has been branded as “Nazi stormtroopers” by a Jewish donor who says Labour’s leader is destroying his party.
Michael Foster, who tried at the High Court to stop Jeremy Corbyn’s name being automatically included on the leadership contest ballot, described the team around the leader as his Sturmabteilung – the full name for the Nazi regime’s SA, or stormtroopers.
He says Corbyn’s team was an “aggressive, holier-than-thou cadre of committed hard-Left socialists” who “excluded, briefed against, often threatened and intimidated” opponents.
The SA – also known as the Brownshirts – helped the Fuhrer with his rise to power, including defending venues where he made and disrupting meetings held by rivals.
Today’s remarks by Mr Foster follow allegations of violent and anti-Semitic incidents in the party.
They also come after a ruling at the Court of Appeal on Friday that 130,000 members who recently joined Labour are ineligible to vote in the leadership contest.
He said: “From where I stood in that evangelical crowd, I saw what we have all witnessed across Britain for a year.
“A brand of politics alien to this country, defined and delivered by a divisive, aggressive holier-than-thou cadre of hard-Left socialists with no real policies to speak of, no defined social and economic objectives, just a call for the committed to take this journey with them down the Yellow Brick Road.
“If you are like me, a Jewish donor to Labour, you are smeared as a Blairite conspirator, plotting to falsely use the accusation of anti-Semitism to damage the Left.
“Corbyn and his leadership team have no respect for others and worse, no respect for the rule of law.
“We are asked to accept wave after wave of inappropriate, democratically damaging and wrongful actions by the Corbynistas as the new way by which politics will be conducted.
"It is why I, as a lifelong Labour supporter, funder and former parliamentary candidate, last month took Jeremy Corbyn to court to have the law decide whether the leader of the party could self-nominate for leader.
“To me, respect for the rule of law is fundamental to a democracy.
“Once political parties believe they are above the law it ends with all opposition silenced, whether it is my grandparents in Dachau, or the Left in Erdogan’s Turkey rounded up and held uncharged in prison.