Aidan Burley

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Aidan Burley (2010)

Aidan Burley (born January 22, 1979 in Auckland , New Zealand ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party . He was a Member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Cannock Chase from 2010 to 2015 .

Life

Burley was born in New Zealand in 1979 to British parents who moved to Great Britain a few months later. He visited in Birmingham , the West House School, the King Edward's School and then studied theology at St John's College of the University of Oxford .

Burley worked as a consultant for the Home Office of the UK Home Office and the National Health Service . He also worked for Philip Hammond and Nick Herbert.

Burley was elected MP to the House of Commons in the 2010 general election with a majority of 3,195 votes. Between January 12, 2011 and December 17, 2011, he was the private parliamentary secretary of the Secretary of State for Transport, first to Philip Hammond and later to Justine Greening . In 2015 he no longer ran for the general election , instead Amanda Milling ran for the Conservative Party , who won the election and has been in parliament for the constituency of Cannock Chase since then.

Controversy

Nazi controversy

On December 11, 2011, The Mail on Sunday reported that Burley had attended a bachelorette party in the winter sports resort of Val Thorens , where the Nazi salute and a toast "to Tom for organizing the bachelorette party, and if we are completely honest, to the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich ”would have happened.

Burley then posted a statement through the Conservative Campaign Headquarters , quoting him as saying, “This must have been inappropriate behavior by some of the other guests, and I deeply regret it happened. I absolutely apologize for any offense that this undoubtedly caused. "

Investigations were opened after The Mail on Sunday claimed it had learned that it was Burley who ordered the Nazi uniform, and on December 17, 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed him as Parliamentary Private Secretary.

On December 22nd, French authorities announced that a preliminary investigation into the case had begun, but Burley had not been involved or notified.

He apologized in a letter to The Jewish Chronicle , in which he also quoted Conservative Friends of Israel Chairman Stuart Polak, who commented on the incidents: "I worked closely with Aidan Burley and traveled to Israel with him. I know him well and he has no anti-Semitism in him. The actions of his friends in France were unacceptable and inexcusable. Aidan should not be associated with it, he is a friend of Israel and the Jewish community. "

Twitter controversy

During the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Burley defamed the content as

“Left multicultural filth. Give us back the Red Arrows, Shakespeare and the Stones. "

He continued that this was

"The leftmost opening ceremony I have ever seen - leftward than in Beijing, the capital of the communist state".

Burley later tried to explain his comments, writing on Twitter:

"I was apparently misunderstood, I was talking about the way the show was handled, not multiculturalism per se."

Criticism followed the tweet on Twitter and elsewhere, and former Vice Prime Minister John Prescott replied, “The opening ceremony made me proud to be British. Your tweet made me angry that you are British too. ”Conservative MP Gavin Barwell also expressed indignation, saying that“ Londoners are rather proud of the city's diversity, ”adding that“ there is nothing left about it " be. On July 30, Prime Minister David Cameron added that "what (Burley) said was completely wrong ... and idiotic to say".

Burley later commented that “parts of the opening ceremony were overtly political,” such as “showing CND symbols,” and referring to the performance of “Bonkers,” questioned “why, in his view, a huge, disproportionate focus on rap music, whereas it is only a small part of multiculturalism ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2015 election results for the Cannock Chase constituency
  2. ^ Official site of Amanda Millings on the British Parliament website
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personal data
SURNAME Burley, Aidan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Auckland , New Zealand