A Derbyshire councillor voiced his disgust yesterday after a leading Tory compared his suggestion that Freemasons seeking election should register their membership to "Boer and Nazi" brutality.

Having previously applauded new government regulations requiring the registration of trade union members, hypocritical Conservative councillors have been screaming “persecution” ever since Matlock

Labour councillor Andy Botham called for the secretive organisation to be included on a register of interests in April.

And newly–appointed leader of Derbyshire Conservative group Barry Lewis went even further early this week in a speech to council as the formal motion was put forward.

Cllr Lewis likened the idea to Hitler’s treatment of Jewish people in Nazi Germany, and to the South African apartheid government’s treatment of the African National Congress (ANC).

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