George Osborne Gets Booed Handing Medals at the Paralympic Athletics Medal Ceremony

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The nation boos at the Tory scum:

Have only just seen this and I am absolutely delighted that he was booed. Yes, we have to reduce the country's deficit and he's never going to be popular in cutting benefits, spending, etc but the sheer number of ill thought out policies and amount of U turns deriving from the April budget shows just how out of touch this Coalition Government are and he fully deserved to be booed as a result.

I have written to the Treasury a number of times since April on what is a clear discrepancy in one of their proposed policies yet they simply do not want to know. It is this arrogance and the sheer hypocrisy shown by key figures in this government that makes me proud of each and every person that booed Osbourne at the Paraolympics. Am only sorry I wasn't there myself to join in

If this was anywhere else, I would have said the crowd reaction was childish & inappropriate.

But, for crying out loud, what the fuck was this particular man doing at the Paralympics? Of all the people who could have gone, the government sent the man who's just cut disability benefits?

The hypocrisy is quite startling.

I agree wannabe - he shouldn't have been there in the first place; but since he was, the crowd's reaction was not only understandable but completely deserved. I expect even the medallists would have liked to join in if they were completely aware of who and what the little toerag is. A good job there weren't any British medallists in that award, really.

OrangeandGoldMrsDeVere you are so right, even the media have done this ot an extent.

crikey It's a joke isn't it? This govt is actually beyond parody!

"My issue is that by putting him in that position in the first place has escalated our internal politics on to an international stage"

I don't know if I agree with that, it's a struggle to get people in this country to sit up and take note of what is going on, maybe letting the rest of the world see it might force people here to open their eyes.

It was brilliant.

I was there, the atmosphere was amazing, we would have cheered a clapping toy monkey.

When GO appeared the boo-ing was loud and spontaneous The minute he was off screen the cheering resumed.

It was a moment for sure

There was a tweet made me laugh: why did 80,000 people boo George Osbourn? Because that is the capacity of the Olympic Stadium

Hilarious, much needed and, sadly, probably won't make a flying fuck's worth of difference to policy.

As someone says upthread, he could easily get the last laugh by making even more cuts.

Someone ought to have just taken him out with a javelin/discus/hammer/anything.

imogen it wasn't longer because we didn't want to ruin the moment of the man presenting the flowers. He looked nice

Anyone ever actually been booed by a crowd? Believe me, if you had, you would not wish it on anyone. Ever.

Worst side of MN coming out in this thread. Shame on you.

Rubbish. Shame on Osborne and his cronies for creating a situation where people felt the need to boo him for his bastard attitude to the very people he was supposed to be there handing out medals to.

Why did a crowd boo you, WillSantaComeAgain?

If I took money from the needy and vulnerable I would deserve every boo a crowd gave me, as does Osborne. I'm sure his massive personal wealth and position of immense power will comfort him amid the trauma.

An unashamed

Osborne deserved it. I have not a shred of pity for the man.

TwoIfBySea Tue 04-Sep-12 12:35:27
Disgraceful - wasn't vociferous enough. Plus, all those javelins and discus lying around, opportunity missed.

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hahaha brilliant. Still can't get over that pic of him at the lunch club-hilarious! get this crappy Gov out asap they are beyond a sick joke.

Thanks for the link - agree it won't make a hair of a difference but Gideon (and Gove) are hateful bastards and I feel overjoyed that he has had to face up to what a shit he is, even if the humiliation only lasted for a few seconds.

By being sent along I hope he also felt a pinch of the embarrassment and humiliation that Chloe Smith felt when he sends her to defend another one of his U-turns.

I'm going to be the lone voice of dissent here. I loathe George Osborne as much as the next person, but actually I think this is just a bit rude, and almost, almost makes me feel sorry for him.

He shouldn't have been asked to present a medal, and whatever SPAD advised him to accept should probably start looking for another job, but it made the medal ceremony about him and UK domestic policy, and not about the achievements of the people up on the podium (who were not British either, and therefore probably wondering what the hell was going on).

I wouldn't have clapped him, but I wouldn't have jeered him either. I'd be totally up for shouting at him at a demo though, or haranguing him on the street.

Okay, not the lone voice. WillSantaComeAgain, I am with you.

"rude"?

Oh yes, heaven forfend that a member of this government who has been key in bringing in cuts that are forcing the most vulnerable in this country into crushing poverty, have to cope with people being "rude" to him.

Being booed by a crowd vs. worrying that you can't afford to live?

Wonder where my sympathy lies...

I am in agreement with twelvelegged, I find it so despicable that he finds it amusing that people are booing him.

Those boo's, you utter cunt, are because you are destroying the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society. If you think that's a laughing matter, then are even more than a wanker than I ever imagined.

Ane breath....

God the reshuffle is scary Women out Hunt promoted and osborne still chancellor ffs