Aidan Burley

Aidan Burley ( born January 22, 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party. At the general election in 2010 he was elected for the constituency of Cannock Chase to the deputies.

Life

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

Burley worked as a consultant for the Home Office of the UK Home Office and the National Health Service. In addition, he worked for Philip Hammond and Nick Herbert.

Burley was elected to the House of Commons at the general election in 2010 with a majority of 3,195 votes for deputies. Between January 2011 and December 17, 2011 12nd he was parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Transport, Philip Hammond at first and later with Justine Greening.

Controversies

Nazi controversy

On December 11, 2011 were reported by The Mail on Sunday that Burley had attended a stag weekend in the ski resort Val Thorens, in which the Hitler salute and a toast " to Tom for organizing the stag farewell, and if we're perfectly honest, to the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich " had occurred.

Thereupon Burley an opinion by the Conservative Campaign Headquarters publish, in which he was quoted as saying: " That was certainly a bad behavior of some other guests and I deeply regret that it happened. I absolutely apologize for any offense that has caused undoubtedly. "

After The Mail on Sunday claimed to have learned that it was Burley, who had ordered the Nazi uniform, investigations were initiated and on 17 December 2011, he was dismissed by Prime Minister David Cameron as a parliamentary private secretary.

On December 22, French authorities announced that a preliminary investigation of the case had been started but not included in the Burley still has notified it.

He apologized in a letter to The Jewish Chronicle, in which he also the chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, Stuart Polak, quoted as stated on the incidents: "I have worked closely with Aidan Burley together and traveled with him to Israel. I know him well and he has not a spark of anti-Semitism in itself., 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

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Burley later tried to explain his comments, and wrote on Twitter:

On Twitter and elsewhere followed criticism on the tweet and the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said: " The opening ceremony has made me proud to be British. Your Tweet has made me so angry that you are also British. " Conservative MP Gavin Barwell also expressed his outrage, saying that the " London rather have pride in the diversity of the city, " and added that" nothing left to it " was. On 30 July, Prime Minister David Cameron added that "what ( Burley ) said was completely wrong ... and idiotic to say ."

Burley later commented that " part of the opening ceremony overtly political " was how the "Show of CND symbols ," and with reference to the appearance of " Bonkers " he questioned, " why, in his view, a huge, disproportionate focus was on the rap music, whereas it was only a small part of multiculturalism. "