It is now over a month since Tory MP Aidan Burley was revealed to have attended a Nazi-themed stag party in France. His attempted rehabilitation has already begun, popping up at last week’s PMQs to ask the most unjeerable question in history and chairing the headbanging TURC campaign.
Scrapbook cannot help speculating what has become of the investigation into the affair announced by David Cameron on 18th December:
“In light of information received, the prime minister has asked for a fuller investigation into the matter to be set up and to report to him.”
There are still plenty of questions that still need answering. In the spirit of helpful, non-partisan cooperation, Scrapbook have compiled a few of the most pressing:
- There are media reports suggest Burley personally hired the SS uniform in the UK and took it on the stag weekend in France. He has refused to deny them. Is this true?
- How can Burley explain changing his account of events on three separate occasions?
- Did Burley consider whether there were any Jewish, gay or disabled restaurant guests or staff at the Val Thorens restaurant who would be particularly offended and upset by this?
- Is it not the case that Burley concealed information from the party in his initial account to protect his government job as Parliamentary Political Secretary to the Transport Secretary?
Tomorrow’s Holocaust Memorial Day should give pause for thought.
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just a pedantic point but wasn’t he a Parliamentary Private Secretary, PPS, rather than Parliamentary Political Secretary – which is a position that doesn’t exist?
yawn, leave the guy alone. Has no one on your website never done or said anything silly, or regrettable. Or been present when a friend has done something beyond the pale? The epitome of petty Westminster politics.
Unless you are genuinely suggesting he sympathises with the Nazi party? Thought not.
John Founier’s toast was
“‘Let’s raise a toast to Tom for organising the stag do, and if we’re perfectly honest, to the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich.’
The Tories seem to be more at ease identifying themselves with the Third Reich than anyone on the left would be.
Cameron after all bangs on about leadership and likes to shout a lot. He raises the profile of the military and blackmails everybody into showing proper respect for them. He involves us in removing the leadership of other countries and extending Britain’s power through the use of force.
Perhaps they really do see some similarities with themselves.
Does no-one remember Prince Harry wearing his nazi costume to a party? It seems awfully similar, yet there was no inquiry into *his* choice of clothes. Double standards man :/
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