Labour Leadership 2016

Foster really ought to know better than to draw comparisons like this. The SA was a paramilitary organisation known for its extreme brutality. It terrorised the population in the power vacuum that had been created in Germany by the limitation of the official army, the Reichswehr, to a mere 100,000 soldiers. By contrast, by the early 1930s, the SA had hundreds of thousands of members. They fought down rival paramilitary organisations such as those associated with other political parties. They routinely broke the law and were a major factor in the Nazis' rise. I haven't seen too many reports about Corbyn supporters murdering and beating up adherents of rival parties or opponents within the Labour Party. Anyone who draws comparisons like this only severely undermines any confidence one might have in their own judgement.

I don't know what's more bizarre about Foster's stance--that his op-ed piece appears in the Daily Mail, which obviously has only the best interests of the Labour Party at heart, or points like these:

Smith now has a real chance of winning this contest. He is supported by the vast majority of his parliamentary colleagues.

Smith will most likely win the £25 sign-up vote too; as many right-minded middle class and working class people, are tired of the Corbyn rhetoric that has bought almost nothing in the past ten months for the people Labour is meant to serve.

I thought the general received wisdom was that even among £25 supporters Corbyn supporters would form the majority?

Love the use of 'right-minded' here.