Anatomy of a #FAIL @AidanBurleyMP and Olympic “leftie multicultural crap”

“With its hilariously quirky Olympic opening ceremony, a wild jumble of the celebratory and the fanciful; the conventional and the eccentric; and the frankly off-the-wall, Britain presented itself to the world Friday night as something it has often struggled to express even to itself: a nation secure in its own post-empire identity, whatever that actually is. “

Conservative MP for Cannock Chase, Aidan Burley was perhaps less secure with this post-empire identity.

This did not go down well in any camps. The left:

Or even within his own party:

Two hours later, after some believed he had closed his account, Burley returned to claim he was ‘misunderstood’.

By morning calls for Burley’s resignation began with even The Telegraph not resisting the opportunity to revisit the MP’s sacking as parliamentary private secretary for attending a ‘Nazi stag party’. The story also mentioned how he caused offence by “texting and dozing” during a talk by a Holocaust survivor at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

And so calls for his resignation begin.