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Promoting the Gestapo Tory brand, down Cambridge way

Well, I suppose it had to happen… It was only a matter of time before one of the major parties attempted to out-Ukip Ukip by referencing the final solution.

Miliband has been doing it from the opposite angle, going all Disraeli and attempting to play up his Jewish credentials while simultaneously claiming to be agnostic at best.

While IDS has all but inscribed Arbeit Macht Frei above the doors of the Department of Work and (No) Pensions.
When the latest salvo of Third Reich rhetoric came however, it emerged from a surprising quarter.

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