Paddy Ashdown: Brexit vote similar to rise of Adolf Hitler
The peer and former Liberal Dem leader branded Brexiteers as “dispossessed and voiceless” as he compared the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany in the 1930s to the referendum result.
He made the outrageous claims during an interview on the BBC’s Pienaar’s Politics show.
Speaking alongside Vote Leave and key Brexit campaigner Iain Duncan Smith, Lord Ashdown said: “I’m deep into the 1930s and boy does this age remind me of the 1930s.
“All the things are there, the revolt against the establishment, the retreat from multilateralism to unilateralism.
“The beginning of protectionism, with those who shout loudest getting heard and the small voice of reason doesn’t.”