A senior Tory councillor has compared Jeremy Corbyn to Hitler and likened reception the Labour leader received at Glastonbury to a Nazi rally.

Lynden Stowe, Gloucester Council’s cabinet member for the economy, made the comparison in a comment on a Facebook video of Mr Corbyn’s speech at the festival.

He wrote: “The similarities to Hitler are frightening.”

Stowe swiftly deleted the remark after being bombarded with objections, according to Gloucestershire Live.

Labour councillors have lodged an official complaint with the Council after receiving protests from residents.

But the Tory is standing by the comparison and told the local newspaper:

“I think that some of Corbyn’s policies and the way he behaves are not dissimilar to some of the ways the National Socialist Party came about. “He’s a proven anti-Semitist. He expounds the sequestration of property. In what he is trying to do with some of the younger people – it’s not dissimilar to Hitler Youth. “I don’t like the chap one bit – I think he’s very bad news.”

Speaking to the Gloucestershire Gazette, Stowe added:

“There are parallels between Corbyn and Hitler – messianic leadership style, promises that can’t be fulfilled, and followers who try to suppress voices that disagree.”

I suppose he thinks Michael Evis is next the Joseph Goebbels.

What an insult to the people who really did suffer at the hands of Hitler and the Nazis, never mind the young people who voted Labour at the election.

Far from suppressing your voice Cllr Stowe, we’re happy to help make people aware of your views…