Tory MP Sacked

[Jimbuna]

What do these people have inside of their skulls....not brain tissue surely? :hmmm:

MP Aidan Burley sacked after 'Nazi' party guest photo


A Conservative MP has been sacked as a parliamentary private secretary over "offensive and foolish" behaviour.
Cannock Chase MP Aidan Burley was pictured in the Mail on Sunday last week with a man dressed as a Nazi SS officer at a stag party in France.


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

[Tribesman]

Couldn't they have just dressed the stag up as a priest?
Or would that be just as offensive nowadays?

[TarJak]

Eedjit!:nope:

[Catfish]

Now if i dress as a SS-man, jump into a conservative meeting or party and let all be photographed, will they all be fired ?
The temptation ..

Sorry, but to be photographed with any dressed-up dumbhead will get you fired ? :doh:

[BossMark]

Sack all the dopey Tory buggers

[nikimcbee]

So, hopefully nobody here ever runs for office, cuz if they find out you played SH3, yer screwed. (noone will count SH5 though:haha:)

[Jimbuna]

So, hopefully nobody here ever runs for office, cuz if they find out you played SH3, yer screwed. (noone will count SH5 though:haha:)

LOL :DL

[Oberon]

Now if i dress as a SS-man, jump into a conservative meeting or party and let all be photographed, will they all be fired ?
The temptation ..

Sorry, but to be photographed with any dressed-up dumbhead will get you fired ? :doh:

My thoughts exactly...I do ponder the whole gravitas behind symbols of the Third Reich...I mean, yes, the holocaust was a terrible event in history, but what Stalin committed behind the Iron Curtain was just as bad, if not worse, so why is there no scandals involving people dressed as a KGB agent?
The more people fear and loathe a symbol, the more power it gains...I've always pondered that about the censorship rules in Germany, do they really prevent Neo-Nazis, or do they in fact encourage them by making them seem like a radical alternative?
Perhaps I'd feel different if I'd lost someone in the Holocaust, however since I did not I cannot say, and I mean no insensitivity to those who did.

[Jimbuna]

My thoughts exactly...I do ponder the whole gravitas behind symbols of the Third Reich...I mean, yes, the holocaust was a terrible event in history, but what Stalin committed behind the Iron Curtain was just as bad, if not worse, so why is there no scandals involving people dressed as a KGB agent?
The more people fear and loathe a symbol, the more power it gains...I've always pondered that about the censorship rules in Germany, do they really prevent Neo-Nazis, or do they in fact encourage them by making them seem like a radical alternative?
Perhaps I'd feel different if I'd lost someone in the Holocaust, however since I did not I cannot say, and I mean no insensitivity to those who did.

^ Excellent and intelligent (if I may be so bold) response Jamie :yeah:

[Oberon]

^ Excellent and intelligent (if I may be so bold) response Jamie :yeah:

HOW DARE YOU!!! :stare:

Intelligent...I don't know... :nope: :O:

[Tribesman]

so why is there no scandals involving people dressed as a KGB agent?

Because people wouldn't instantly recognise someone dressed as a KGB agent.

[Oberon]

Because people wouldn't instantly recognise someone dressed as a KGB agent.

Touché, although you could probably do some Hammer and Sickle marlarkey and a little Makarov. Either that or a Red Guards uniform.

Even some of the SS uniforms out there are historically inaccurate, I mean in the field the primary differences were that they had better kit and the Skull head design. I mean, that's a pretty sweeping generalization there, I'm aware that there are plenty of variations of the SS uniform...but what costumes prey on is the subconscious public image of an SS officer, black leather, Swastika armband, monocle, which could just as easily be also portrayed as the Gestapo. Public conscience has certain images in mind which they assign to certain nations...for example, in winter I wear an Ushanka and people always comment on its identity as a Russian piece of headgear (except for one man who said I looked like someone out of, and I quote, "Rommels Eighth Army" which confused me somewhat) however the Ushanka has been used throughout most of Eastern Europe, and Germany, but public image has converted it into a primary Russian object.
It's a bit like Logos, I suppose, you see something and you identify it with a company.

In this case, certainly, it's done to provoke a reaction, and surely that gives us some clue as to the power behind the object, and if the whole thing was not such a taboo subject, then would there be so much of a reaction? :hmmm:

I'll stop there, in case Jim insults me again. :O:

[1480]

Had he worn butt-less chaps and a leather bustier, he would have been admired for his courage :cool:

[Torplexed]

He should have attended the party as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, complete with mock briefcase bomb. That would have thrown the opposition for a loop. :03:

[BossMark]

Had he worn butt-less chaps and a leather bustier, he would have been admired for his courage :cool:
Yeah that would look more like a normal Tory MP

[Tribesman]

Yeah that would look more like a normal Tory MP
Oranges:rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

Looks like he's not the only one:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073525/Hypocrisy-Labour-MPs-researcher-exposed-Hitler-salute-picture-emerges.html

[Tribesman]

Looks like he's not the only one:

But what kind of salute is Hitler giving her?

[Dread Knot]

But what kind of salute is Hitler giving her?

Stay off my damn lawn you kids?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/13/article-2073525-0F28D05200000578-57_634x405.jpg

[Herr-Berbunch]

Members of the stag party may face prosecution in France, where it is a crime to wear Nazi uniform in public except in a film or play.

Or unless you wear one for work and the incumbant government has fled to Britain?

[STEED]

So damn what!

Big Deal!

Who gives a hoot!

So taking the mick out of the nazis is a no no!

For crying out loud get a grip and move on, no one gives a stuff.