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Wed Dec 21, 2011, 04:34 AM

The Tory MP, the stag do, and Nazi salutes

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8948891/The-Tory-MP-the-stag-do-and-Nazi-salutes.html


Aidan Burley, MP for Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, was with a group of a dozen friends, some of whom were filmed toasting the Third Reich and pictured performing Nazi salutes at the ski resort of Val Thorens.

During a meal in a restaurant in the resort, Mr Burley, 32, who is Parliamentary Private Secretary to Justine Greening, the Transport Secretary, sat next to the member of the group dressed in a black SS uniform and cap.

At one point, a guest made a speech saying: "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."

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Later, after moving on to a British-themed pub, some of the group, many of whom adopted thick German accents, chanted: ‘“Himmler! Himmler! Himmler!” and “Eichmann! Eichmann! Eichmann!”. Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann were senior SS officers directly responsible for the Holocaust.



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Wed Dec 21, 2011, 04:36 AM

1. Fortunately the MP has now been persuaded to resign as a Parliamentary Private Secretary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16234529

I am not sure whether this is the appropriate forum for this post; but since antisemitism is a perennial topic here, and since there are two stereotypes about it that are utterly wrong - that it doesn't really exist any more, or that it is mainly a product of the Left - I thought I'd give this shocking example of behaviour by British mainstream Conservatives.

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Wed Dec 21, 2011, 03:44 PM

2. How elegant.

Any way of changing up the meme from anti-semitism to simply historically illiterate?

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