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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Who knew Chris Brownbridge was so popular?
And did anyone expect Gordon Brown would be cheered at the Paralympics?
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.