Aidan Burley Sacked As Commons Aide Over Nazi Stag Party

Aidan Burley

First Posted: 18/12/11 06:30 GMT Updated: 18/12/11 06:35 GMT   PA

A Tory MP who attended a stag party where guests dressed as Nazis has been sacked as a Commons aide for "offensive" behaviour and placed under investigation by David Cameron.

Aidan Burley had expressed "deep regret" at the "inappropriate" actions of guests, including toasts to the Third Reich, with whom he partied at a French ski resort.

But he was removed from his post as a parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to Transport Secretary Justine Greening after fresh allegations were made linking him to the behaviour.

The Mail on Sunday, which exposed the party a week ago, said it had new information about the episode.

A Party spokesman said: "Aidan Burley has behaved in a manner which is offensive and foolish.

"That is why he is being removed from his post as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Transport. 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."

The Cannock Chase MP issued an "unreserved, wholehearted and fulsome apology" over the party in a letter to the Jewish Chronicle earlier this week.

One of his friends donned a replica SS officer's uniform and another guest reportedly toasted the "ideology and thought processes" of Adolf Hitler's regime.

In the letter he said he wished he had left the stag party.

"What was happening was wrong and I should have completely dissociated myself from it. I had a choice, and I made the wrong choice not to leave. I apologise for this error of judgment."

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A Tory MP who attended a stag party where guests dressed as Nazis has been sacked as a Commons aide for "offensive" behaviour and placed under investigation by David Cameron. Aidan Burley had expre...
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10:42 PM on 12/18/2011
"Aidan Burley has behaved in a manner which is offensive and foolish." Like the bloody government does not do that all the time!
07:16 PM on 12/18/2011
watch as glorious old britain is ruined with politically correct vermin.
05:06 PM on 12/18/2011
The thing is it was actually mocking the ss uniform which belittles it not promotes it so i see no harm done at all apart from the pc brigade earning points
05:04 PM on 12/18/2011
what a complete farse the whole political system is you cant improve areas with new roofs and kitchens for council properties and promises of this and that, the news is a bit like the weather a load of spin , speculation and lies, when will people realise that one man can not rule over another without corruption, im self employed and if i stood on tv telling a load of ear candy to secure my place in parliment and then did what ever i wanted after id be out of work in a week
05:01 PM on 12/18/2011
The clowns in Westminster.. lie to us, steal from us and treat us like idiots... why are they not sacked, or is this another clown bending over backwards to please the pc mob.
04:02 PM on 12/18/2011
It's pathetic! The war ended nearly 70 years ago. No doubt Freddie Starr wouldn't be allowed to do hid Hitler act nowaday. PC brigade need to lighten up! I wonder if I'll get the sack from my job. I went to a party the other day dressed a William the Conqueror, and he suceeded in invading this country.
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03:53 PM on 12/18/2011
"In the letter he said he wished he had left the stag party.

"What was happening was wrong and I should have completely dissociated myself from it. I had a choice, and I made the wrong choice not to leave. I apologise for this error of judgment."

Seems like he agrees with it and stayed.
03:05 PM on 12/18/2011
It's a tune, and another one bites the dust.
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02:04 PM on 12/18/2011
aol do not do freedom of speach that is why i will find another service provider who does when my contract ends are the chienese its the sort of thing they do?

back to the point are we STILL going to throw fish back if they are the wrong kind cought by accident!! what is the point of that stupid fokers11
02:02 PM on 12/18/2011
After reading the coments allowed by aol and knowing what I posted, HP has tobe a sick party format!
01:51 PM on 12/18/2011
Why don't you at HP go and do some washing up instead wasting people's time?
01:48 PM on 12/18/2011
I keep posting my comment and nothing happen, are you a joke?
04:36 PM on 12/18/2011
Nothing new in that.
01:35 PM on 12/18/2011
Would he been sacked if he went to a party of people dressed as the clergy ( the church killed millions of people in the name of god! ), or as Romans?
Absolutely pathetic!
01:34 PM on 12/18/2011
It is not often that I agree with Cameron, but this is an action that I approve of. I see the thicko members of the EDL/BNP post on here disagreeing with the action. They do wear their racism with pride, don't they?
02:23 PM on 12/18/2011
Your posts are as bad as a Ham Shank!!
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02:52 PM on 12/18/2011
you agree with a government that just invaded Libya? supported the "rebels" that murdered 30,000 blacks? its all on youtube go and look for yourself.
and you support Cameron ?
03:40 PM on 12/18/2011
Only on this decision. I said it was not often-I hate Conservatives
03:42 PM on 12/18/2011
You must be joking! BNP, Britain First or UKIP! None of the Main 3 are fit to run a Circus never mind a Country!!!