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The Jogger
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WOW now it's Theresa May's turn to get booed at the Paralympics, she was obviously in training for the Paralympics when she was at the Police Federation conference aaaaah.
Cyclopathic
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You assume much. Who are you to say that those athletes felt that it spoiled their moment. For all any of us know it may have hugely heartened one or more of them to know that the crowd were aware enough of the issues affecting them to take a small stand and express their dislike. It's a bit disingenuous to ascribe feelings to the athletes because it re-enforces what you believe. Perhaps if we heard what the athletes themselves thought about it we could comment.
well, that's interesting - well, more than interesting.
MissTillyFlop
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I disagree - some of the greatest moments of the Olympics HAVE been political - Jessie Owens socking it to Hitler, the Black Panther Salute at the 1968 games, the massive cheers for the first female Saudi Athlete.
The government made a huge error in judgement sending George Osborne to the paralympics on the same day that it was announced that those with terminal ilnesses who had more than 6 months left to live would forfeit 70% of their benefits if they did not attend work related activities. All so Gideon and Gordon's sticky fingered chums could continue to pay less than 1% in taxes.
I'm sorry, but if you attack a hornet's nest and then hang around, you should expect to be stung and I think it's a shame that Gordon Brown escaped the booing because the only ones who are "in it together" are the politicians, having a laugh at our expense.
Keith Oates
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I don't know how Gordon Brown has the nerve to appear at any public gathering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'!
GrumpyGregry
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Because he is, of course, single-handedly responsible for the global financial crisis, manufactured the current recession all on his own, and has an odd form of Tourette's which compels him to call bigots 'bigots'.
Keith Oates
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Yes, and that gives a strong clue as to why the UK is in such a mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keith Oates
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No..he wasn't that good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Jogger
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Of course , it's quite clear that Osborne know's what he is doing, dragging us out of that mess. You can just see the confidence written all over his face.
Keith Oates
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I have to agree the present lot don't inspire much confidence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
threebikesmcginty
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Quite, but let's not get the rose tinted specs out for labour's last time in office yet though.
Hitchington
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War in Iraq (Blair) and failure to regulate the financial system (Brown) are the 2 major mistakes the last Labour government made, but let's not forget the Conservatives were right behind them all the way when it comes to these mistakes. Osborne inherited a growing economy on the back of Alistair Darling's post recession economic stimulus, but his cuts and austerity measures have chocked off that recovery and put us back into recession. Osborne has been found out for what he is; clueless and inept. As for David Davies' call for "shock therapy", well that's just crazy talk!
swee'pea99
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To draw a comparison between Gordon Brown and George Osbourne is inane.
Brown became unpopular because he had the ill-fortune to inherit a tired government which had run its course, just in time to be hit by the biggest systemic failure of global finance since the '30s, and had nothing to fall back on but the charm and PR skills of a fence-post. On the other hand, he was personally responsible for ensuring that the benefits of the boom years were largely (and quietly) used to fund the largest and most effective assault on child poverty ever, and a massive investment in the UK's infrastructure, which will see us in good stead for the next four or five decades, whatever happens. (People should try to bear that in mind when they can get to see a consultant next Tuesday rather than in 9 months time, or when they go to their child's school and rain isn't coming in through the ceilings, as it did in mine.)
And while he may undoubtedly have made mistakes - the above-mentioned failure to effectively regulate the financial sector being the most glaring - he was nevertheless that rarest of politicians: one who actually understood how modern economies work, and what, and how much, governments could do to influence how well they worked. Even his political opponents (at least the honest ones) would acknowledge him to be a genuinely serious financial brain. He is, among other things, widely credited for rapidly designing and efficiently orchestrating the global course of action that helped prevent the credit crunch taking us back to the '30s.
George Osbourne is, by common consent, a mental pygmy. A man who has not the slightest idea what's going on or what to do about it, and so has taken refuge in the kind of 'you can't spend what you don't have' simplistic schoolboy financial 'thinking' that Keynes discredited 80 years ago, ever-popular with the kinds of 'you' who have plenty, thanks very much, and always have had, and always will. The kind who take pride in their courage to be bold and resolute and 'take the unpopular decision' - all the more nauseating given how popular they know such punitive/puritanical action is among the kinds of people who won't suffer the consequences, the kind of voters they will need when election time comes round. The kind who like to spout bullshit about 'us all being in it together', when they and their colleagues are living, breathing, strutting proofs, if such were needed, that there's us and there's them, and they have every intention of doing everything in their power to keep it that way.
It is indeed hard to recall a comparable popular expression of mass-derision since Blair's dressing down by the WI; but let's not forget one fundamental difference. That was an interest group, with a specific agenda and a particular bone to pick. This was a mass outpouring of loathing from, it seems fair to assume, a pretty representative 80,000 cross-section of the nation.
Another pathetic and sickening PR-own goal from the most inept, ineffectual and generally contemptible government in living memory.
Booo!
Brown became unpopular because he had the ill-fortune to inherit a tired government which had run its course, just in time to be hit by the biggest systemic failure of global finance since the '30s, and had nothing to fall back on but the charm and PR skills of a fence-post. On the other hand, he was personally responsible for ensuring that the benefits of the boom years were largely (and quietly) used to fund the largest and most effective assault on child poverty ever, and a massive investment in the UK's infrastructure, which will see us in good stead for the next four or five decades, whatever happens. (People should try to bear that in mind when they can get to see a consultant next Tuesday rather than in 9 months time, or when they go to their child's school and rain isn't coming in through the ceilings, as it did in mine.)
And while he may undoubtedly have made mistakes - the above-mentioned failure to effectively regulate the financial sector being the most glaring - he was nevertheless that rarest of politicians: one who actually understood how modern economies work, and what, and how much, governments could do to influence how well they worked. Even his political opponents (at least the honest ones) would acknowledge him to be a genuinely serious financial brain. He is, among other things, widely credited for rapidly designing and efficiently orchestrating the global course of action that helped prevent the credit crunch taking us back to the '30s.
George Osbourne is, by common consent, a mental pygmy. A man who has not the slightest idea what's going on or what to do about it, and so has taken refuge in the kind of 'you can't spend what you don't have' simplistic schoolboy financial 'thinking' that Keynes discredited 80 years ago, ever-popular with the kinds of 'you' who have plenty, thanks very much, and always have had, and always will. The kind who take pride in their courage to be bold and resolute and 'take the unpopular decision' - all the more nauseating given how popular they know such punitive/puritanical action is among the kinds of people who won't suffer the consequences, the kind of voters they will need when election time comes round. The kind who like to spout bullshit about 'us all being in it together', when they and their colleagues are living, breathing, strutting proofs, if such were needed, that there's us and there's them, and they have every intention of doing everything in their power to keep it that way.
It is indeed hard to recall a comparable popular expression of mass-derision since Blair's dressing down by the WI; but let's not forget one fundamental difference. That was an interest group, with a specific agenda and a particular bone to pick. This was a mass outpouring of loathing from, it seems fair to assume, a pretty representative 80,000 cross-section of the nation.
Another pathetic and sickening PR-own goal from the most inept, ineffectual and generally contemptible government in living memory.
Booo!