He looks like an adult when the photo was taken so I don't think he can use the 'youth defence'.
Also he doesn't look he's wearing it for 'a laugh' in that photo, he's got a right arrogant, superior face on him. He looks like a right Nazi, I reckon there was a bit more going on there than just a daft party.
Do you think he might have put the arrogant face on whilst posing for the picture, isn't that how we portray Nazi officers in films?
Would it have been better if he had dressed as Arthur 'Bomber' Harris and posed sternly over a desk for the picture?
I am sure there are many of us on here who have attended the re-enactment weekends at Pickering when the North Yorkshire Railway was transported back to WW2. The railway station at Levisham became the French town 'Le Visham' and was occupied by German soldiers. These were brilliant weekends and something that was marked in the calendar until the British press told us we could not like this kind of thing.
In 2017, the North York Moors Railway withdrew its invitation to a re-enactment group that dressed as German Soldiers and I can remember the uproar from posters on here. Some of the same posters who are calling for this man's head.
Times have changed since he posed for that picture and earlier in the week we had a brilliant old photograph of Ayersome Park, complete with a guy dressed as Al Jolson. How many of us older posters sat and watched Jolson films on a Sunday afternoon or the Black and White Minstrels on a Saturday evening - they were a big part of Saturday entertainment when I was growing up. I also remember going to see Clive Baldwin singing Jolson around 1985 and had a brilliant evening - does that make me a racist? I look back on that now and think 'how did anyone think it was right to black up and go on stage to perform.'
If he is or was part of a group that believed in the Nazi idealism and was spouting white supremacy, then that would be totally different, but if he is to be believed (
hard to believe a Tory), he had attended a 'fancy dress party' with a wild theme.
Should the guys in the link below be banned from running for election because they were part of a re-enactment group that dressed as German soldiers? I leave that one to the persecutors.
A railway charity says the decision is a response to negative publicity in the national press.
www.bbc.co.uk
