Tory MP Aidan Burley’s train of thought on Nazi themed party. “Not an easy day to forget. I remember every detail. The Member of Parliament for Cannock Chase wore grey, you wore blue.” The speed with which Aidan Burley comes up with plausible excuses seems to be slightly slower than that of traffic on a New Jersey bridge. The Tory MP is still under fire for attending a Nazi-themed stag do in France, and after a wait of almost two years, the Tories have finally released the results of their investigation into the incident. In his apology to the Jewish Chronicle, written only a week after the party, Burley wrote that “I wish I had left when I realised what was happening”. It seems strange that the moment Aidan Burley realised what was happening was not the same moment as him buying the Nazi uniforms, which, according to the report, is exactly what he did. So, at what point during the process of deciding to buy the uniforms, buying the costumes, taking them to France, seeing his friends put them on, watching them Sieg Heil, and hearing the chants of “MEIN FUHRER, MEIN FUHRER” did Aidan Burley realise what was happening? Perhaps it genuinely was as he watched his swastika-clad chums drunkenly goosestep around a sleepy French village, palms aloft, singing the first verse of ‘Deutschland Uber Alles’ that the penny finally dropped. “Hang on,” the MP will have thought then, “are we dressed as the Nazis?” And that’s when, in his opinion, he should have left, but didn’t.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:19:24 +0000
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