osborne booed

[Drago]

And?

And...what?

 

[accountantpete]

To be fair to George Osborne he did warn before the 2010 general election that whoever won that election would become the most unpopular government ever, due to having to sort out the financial mess that the previous government had left behind. He is proving himself right, but people do have short memories don't they!

Yes- but they haven't started cutting yet. All they have done to date is stop the investment expenditure. The cutting comes in the next few years if they have the courage to actually do it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yes- but they haven't started cutting yet. All they have done to date is stop the investment expenditure. The cutting comes in the next few years if they have the courage to actually do it.

They only have three years to achieve that. The next election will probably see labour returned on a slim majority, then the policy of overspending will start all over again.

 

[theclaud]

To be fair to George Osborne

Hahahahahahahahaha!

 

[ceepeebee]

I was there - I booed as soon as Osborne was spotted on the screen and booed hard. (I was also on the anti-Iraq marches, along with a lot more than 79,999 others)

The 3 athletes on the podium got an absolutely rapturous response too, as soon as the South African in Bronze was announced, all booing stopped (he was really really cool too)

 

[Hitchington]

To be fair to George Osborne he did warn before the 2010 general election that whoever won that election would become the most unpopular government ever, due to having to sort out the financial mess that the previous government had left behind. He is proving himself right, but people do have short memories don't they!

I know, you've even forgotten to mention the credit crunch/recession brought about by a global banking crisis (which was the major cause of the "finacial mess").

 

[subaqua]

I was in Iraq as it goes.

bet theres a fair few who wish they hadn't had to go . Armwed forces do a stunning job and get told where to go and what to do. you didn't have a choice did you.

 

[Red Light]

Also it was a worldwide audience that can now see what the UK public really think of the government cut backs.

And the Olympics/Paralympics are supposed to rise above politics - even the North Koreans are there - and athletes who have tried to use them as a platform for political messages get sanctioned. Its done now but I just think its a shame the crowd had to politicise it in that way. There have been plenty of other politicians from here and abroad involved and if everyone started expressing their party political feelings towards them the whole thing would degenerate pretty quickly. YMMV.

 

[on the road]

And the Olympics/Paralympics are supposed to rise above politics - even the North Koreans are there - and athletes who have tried to use them as a platform for political messages get sanctioned. Its done now but I just think its a shame the crowd had to politicise it in that way. There have been plenty of other politicians from here and abroad involved and if everyone started expressing their party political feelings towards them the whole thing would degenerate pretty quickly. YMMV.

It wasn't the crowd who politicised, it was the Tories who politicised by putting Osborne there. It was clearly done (by the Tories) as a political stunt, which backfired.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

And the Olympics/Paralympics are supposed to rise above politics - even the North Koreans are there - and athletes who have tried to use them as a platform for political messages get sanctioned. Its done now but I just think its a shame the crowd had to politicise it in that way. There have been plenty of other politicians from here and abroad involved and if everyone started expressing their party political feelings towards them the whole thing would degenerate pretty quickly. YMMV.

It was the presence of politicians that politicised it. The crowd would have been very just happy to applaud the athletes. And I think the spontaneous boo-then-hiss demonstrated that clearly.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Has this thread gone intense yet or is there still room for ribaldry?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Its Cafe. Ribald at will.

I just need a moment to think..

 

[Andrew_Culture]

There once was a man called Osbourne who went for an Olympic sojourn
He raised his face to the crowd, and the response was loud
But he left a face like a newborn

 

[Andrew_Culture]

How's that?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

There once was a man from whitehall
Who appeared to know shite-all
He went to the games and got shot down in flames
And we all think he's a bastard for having the farking nerve to show up at the paralympic games after shitting on the foundations of the welfare state.