LDVideo: George Osborne booed at Paralympics

LDVideo: George Osborne booed at Paralympics

By Stephen Tall | Tue 4th September 2012 - 6:45 am

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This was the scene last night when Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne turned up at the Olympic stadium to present the medals at the 400m T38 victory ceremony:

(Available to view on YouTube here.)

As I asked on Twitter last night:

Always worth considering the opposite: did anyone seriously expect George Osborne would be cheered at Paralympics?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) September 3, 2012

* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.

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3 Comments

Malcolm Todd 4th Sep '12 - 10:46am

Who knew Chris Brownbridge was so popular?
Aaron 4th Sep '12 - 3:00pm

And did anyone expect Gordon Brown would be cheered at the Paralympics?
Mary Reid 4th Sep '12 - 5:17pm

I was at the table tennis last night and was surprised to see Danny Alexander giving out the flowers to the medallists. He was neither booed nor cheered – most of the people there had no idea who he was.

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