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Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:31 am
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Arse.

That said, I don't remember any of the Royal Family getting sacked...

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Not sure what to make of this.

Are we going to get to a point where anyone in office has to be sacked simply because they once stood in a room where someone might have mentioned the Nazis a decade before?

If Burley had been dressed in a Nazi uniform, I can understand the opprobrium. If, as it seems from the reports, only the groom at the stag do was wearing a fancy dress uniform, Burley is guilty of nothing more than having a poor choice of friends, in my opinion.

We expect our politicians to be so squeaky clean I wonder we allow them to have sex. :lol:

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If Burley had been dressed in a Nazi uniform, I can understand the opprobrium. If, as it seems from the reports, only the groom at the stag do was wearing a fancy dress uniform, Burley is guilty of nothing more than having a poor choice of friends, in my opinion.

I thought there was talk of them all doing the salute as well? I don't think all the information has come out because initially the Tories were going to keep him, that was until DC got some further details.

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If Nazi uniforms are so offensive, then why can you hire them?

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If Nazi uniforms are so offensive, then why can you hire them?

But they were in France. It's illegal to display nazi insignia, uniforms, flags etc. there.

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