George Osborne booed at Paralympics

The first boos of the day ring out in the Olympic Stadium for George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was presenting medals at the 400m T38 victory ceremony.

[active]

As Ken Livingstone said, every penny of the £10Bn or so spent on these games was worth it for that moment! Proud to be British.

[SempiternalScientist]

I love how the boos transition into a yay when the new name is mentioned XD

[davwe]

This is one of the best moments in history. Thank you!!!

[GLove]

New, 'living wage' but only for those over 25.
Thanks for shafting my generation George.

[TheoHiggins]

I may have been 11 years old but I'm proud to have taken part in one of the funniest things I've seen.

[FEWGEE]

I was proud to be British watching this.

[pavanpatel]

Are they saying "boo" or "boo-urns"?

[victoriaward]

Wonder if they asked IDS first but he declined.

[frankiebarrettrules]

He's clearly so deluded money and power that he has lost any human empathy that wasn't forced out of him by the cocaine in Eton, why else would you laugh at the thought of thousands of people booing you

[Samara.Weaving]

Labour left the country with £750 billion worth of debt.

Why is it at £1.635 trillion now?

[neilwalsh]

A nasty little psychopath. He needs a shrink

[petergalbraith]

He thinks it's funny, says it all really.

[varshapatel]

why does he call himself george when he is Gideon

[manthony]

Why did they even choose him? Charisma?

[lenkapenka]

That won't be in his autobiography!

[paulfromdevon]

Q Why did 60, 000 people boo George Osborne?
A Because that was the capacity of the stadium

[AA-hgfk]

I feel so sorry for the athletes here, imagine training for years so that you can be presented with a medal by George Osborne or some bloke who works for BMW - couldn't we have got someone better to present the medals?!

[paulcook]

He should have refused to have anything to do with Osbourne and the athletes should have refused to receive the medals.

[RonWylie-gklc]

I have never hated a political party as much as these despicable twats, he was told by many experts his plans would not work but he was to arrogant to back down to the cost of all of us. Cameron should be in the stocks for losing touch with reality so much he allowed a referendum to leave the EU without ever giving everyone the facts {I voted out because I don't want us to be part of a none elected government who are building an army but I believe many people did it just to piss Cameron and this prick off} and these two spoiled Torrie boys saunter away having wrecked everything they touched. ANY party that allows Ian Duncan Smith and Boris Johnson into power is the worst thing that has ever happened to the UK

[angelsigh]

not sure when I was more appreciative of a crowd haha. makes you proud to be British, I have tickets to the commonwealth games opening ceremony so I'm hoping whatever representative of the government that attends gets the same treatment.