Fair play to the Daily Mail for breaking this story

Meanwhile, back on the slopes.... an anonymous woman banker let the girls down in a recent issue of Grazia magazine (number 344), complaining about protesters and anyone that dares have a pop at the City of London. Life as a struggling banker sounds seriously tough. These snippets should melt the coldest of anti-capitalist hearts:

"This year I got a £30,000 bonus which was just enough to pay off my credit card and cover my ski trip to Val d'Isère. I'll be devastated if I don't get more in January. I bet the chanting protesters don't stop for a moment to think about what my life is like. Yes, I've been on five holidays this year, but every one has been cut short by a work emergency. We work so hard on such little sleep that I've started to suffer short-term memory problems. I've lost count of the number of times I've put down my Blackberry and then totally forgotten where I've left it. Long gone are the days of free drinks at a bar where the tab could easily run to over £1,000 within a couple of hours. Yes, 99 per cent of the population are struggling financially – but so are we."

 http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/11/banker-grazia-magazine-quotes/

I'm completely against fascism, racism and nazism, but it is really such a big deal if people dress up as Nazis for fancy dress?

If someone dresses up as the devil they aren't saying they will condemn people to a life of eternal torture and damnation. If someone dresses up as a vampire they aren't condoning killing people by sucking their blood dry. If they dress as a Roman emperor they aren't saying slavery and setting lions on Christians and slaves is OK. There are millions more examples like this.

Why is dressing up as a Nazi any different? The whole point of fancy dress is to dress up as something you are not.

By all means attack this person for being a Tory MP - he is total scum for that - but complaining about a fancy dress costume is just right-wing moral posturing of the sort the Daily Mail likes to do.

In my anarchist utopia people will be welcome to dress up as Nazis, as long as they aren't neo-Nazis themselves, of course.

If you'd bothered to read any of the articles, you'd have seen its not just a question of these idiots wankering around in fancy dress, they made a deliberate effort, in their own words, to be as offensive as possible, chanting the names of Nazi war criminals in a community that suffered terribly from Nazism

As for the examples you mention, FYI the Roman empire came to an end over a thousand years ago and the devil doesn't actually exist, whereas Nazism is a movement that butchered millions of people within living memory, and continues to inspire violence today

*sigh*

Charlie Chaplin portrayed hitler.

How many films have hitler in it of either a serious nature or of comedy value?

How many films, books, plays have nazis in them?

If you are seriously going to ban it as fancy dress, then I think you need to seriously think of banning all the films.

I think you are just pre-judging him because he is a tory. Doesn't matter what he does, you'd find something to complain about it.

It's considered not a "joke" in country which suffered brutal Nazi occupation, you berk