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

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The nation boos at the Tory scum:

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abitwobby - you seem to have forgotten that it was your beloved Margaret who de-regulated the City.

I'd love to know which countries it is you think are following Thatcherite policies and doing really well right now. Funny that you didn't name them.

Just in case you've forgotten, it was Bush Jnr who was in charge in the US when the shit hit the fan.

"I never understand why people have a problem with Osborne."

Your post reads as if you think we all dislike Osbourne but don't mind the Tories?!

I don't care who might or might not be to blame for the deficit, what I do care about is a government that want disabled people to disappear by taking all their funds away.
it is very easy to think it will never effect you.
but it can at any time.

The link's been posted to the guardian deficit data: so long as the first lab government were fulfilling their pre 1997 promises to stick to Tory budget plans, we were running a surplus, and beginning to pay down the debt.

Then, in 2000, they were freed from that 3 year pledge, and promptly started spending like drunken sailors. They ran larger deficits in the BOOM years (whilst claiming to have "abolished boom and bust") than the last Con govt ran in the last recession. This is why we now have no more and huge debts.

I can't stand the Tories, but gods sake, let's not pretend labour have any economic credibility, or don't bear the responsibility for us having no cash in the national pocket.

Quite simply... they should have been louder!

I don't know about South Africa or Singapore but Canada and Australia have recovered better due to less deregulation (a Thatcherite policy) which meant their banking industries didn't get into the shit, and more importantly the current boom in commodities.

To imagine that China follows any sort of Thatcherite free market approach is really quite bizarre.

I don't know about Canada but banks in Australia charge fees for pretty much everything, so whatever shit they might or might not have got into, they've doubtless clawed back from their customers. Bank charges over here are ridiculous (we don't even bother with a bank because of it, we're in a building society and don't have a current/cheque account at all).

Yes we have to pay for the privilege of giving the banks out money here, and the services are pants too (my bank pats itself on the back about it's internet services, but I can't even transfer money to my dh's account, and his account is at the same branch! The expectation is that I will withdraw money (for a fee) and then he has to go to the bank in person to deposit it (and the bank will hold it for a few days before he can spend it too). They made record breaking profits this year too...

Same here, nooka - record-breaking profits. Makes me sick.

Abitwobblynow, I find your post a little muddled.

Sorry if I missed a post, but you were the first person to bring up Thatcher or suggest that she was thought to be evil.

My point was simply that Osbourne was booed because of cuts to public spending which have had a negative impact on disabled people. Regardless of the economic situation this would be Conservative policy, so arguing the toss about who caused the economic crisis is irrelevant.

Just getting on this thread

I found it odd yesterday when at the athletics, Prince Edward got a huge cheer from the audience (though nothing like Tessa Sanderson got!) and Teresa May got booed. HMQ must have done better than I thought with the Jubilee etc to shift public perception!

I see that Wobbly's swallowed the How To Be A Good Tory handbook.

I wonder if the Tories have a drinking game, if someone mentions Obama and racism - drink.

If someone mentions poor old Thatcher - drink.

If someone mentions He Who Must Not Be Named (Gordon Brown) - drink.

If someone mentions "the mess we were left with" - down the bottle and sing God Save The Queen.

Wobbly I got as far as this in your post and decided it wasn't worth reading the rest:
That swivel eyed Scottish git, or the bankers?

The fact that you think it's fine to refer to someone with a disability as 'swivel eyed' says so much about you.

But no-one is allowed to apply the adjective 'evil' to Thatcher because in your book that's 'disgusting...'
I know which attitude I find most deplorable.

And yes... going back to the thread topic, which seems to have veered away from the original point, Osborne completely deserved to be booed. He and his government have treated the disabled (and other vulnerable members of society) with utter contempt.

They ought to feel ashamed of themselves.

You really have swallowed the whole 'it's the bankers' fault' haven't you?

That's because it is. It wasn't any political party that made fraudulent loans, it was the banks.

Osbourne has INCREASED borrowing!!! Do you want to blindly follow your ideology, or would you like to let some facts get in the way????

To rebut your fact with another: the bollock chinned gimp has had to increase borrowing because tax receipts went down, all due to his austerity measures. He's an idiot who in the real world wouldn't be left in charge of a raffle.

You say "What penalises the poor and rewards the rich is globalisation" and then " globalisation is NOT going to go away". From that I take it you want globalisation and all it means for the poor. Globalisation didn't start until the early eighties, it's taken only thirty years for it to fuck the global economy so much that the only way it can recover is if we all do an Iceland.

If you think we can't afford the NHS now just wait till privatisation kicks in and it has to make a profit. Watch those costs rise...

Abitwobbly

Answer this: who set the interest rates? That swivel eyed Scottish git, or the bankers? Then answer this: what are derivitives?

The interest rate is set by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England never by Gordon Brown (and how nice of you to insult a disabled person for their disability on this thread).

Derivatives is a fairly broad financial term - would you clarify which type you're talking about?

"what did your econometric analysis predict growth, unemployment, inflation and the exchange rate to be?" -

a whole lot better than if Labour had not hoodwinked the voting population not once, but 3 times with their Vision of equality and Fairness ... Imagine. There might have been real welfare reform, where people would not be penalised (losing benefits) for getting a job, the opening of immigration floodgates issue - not ONCE discussed with the nation before it was unilaterally imposed - that has resulted in the suppression of wage rates wouldn't have happened either. What would happen if some Labour luvvies admitted they had made some catastrophic mistakes? Would you blow up and die?

"A whole lot better" - meaning?

How the hell did you come to that conclusion? Or is this just made up bollocks spouted by an ill-informed, ingnorant righty?

twofingerstogideon

^The fact that you think it's fine to refer to someone with a disability as 'swivel eyed' says so much about you.
But no-one is allowed to apply the adjective 'evil' to Thatcher because in your book that's 'disgusting...'
I know which attitude I find most deplorable.^

Very well said.

Abitwobblynow "kick the English working class up the ass about their attitude to education and the State."
What is this supposed to mean? Do you mean the 'working class' shouldn't expect an education and leave that to those whose parents are wealthy enough to pay for private school?

The 'working class' are now synonymous with the disabled people, single parents fleeing violence, traumatised children, street homless adults... These are people who depend on the state. Your solution to being disadvantaged by life's misfortunes that you are lucky enough not to have experienced, is to kick the disadvantaged up the arse. Let's hope you never have any sway over social policy and for your sake let's hope none of these fates befall you and you need help one day.

By the way Wobbly, you might want to check what Thatcherite monetary policy might actually be. If you actually knew what you were talking about you wouldn't use China as an example!

I adored every minute of it. I only wish I'd been there too, Ladywellian. I hate Gideon even more than Cameron, though I hate Cameron too. He's such a little TOOL.

Is it me, I can not hear booing I can just hear laughing and music.