Did he expect cheers?

[sir.prize]

If he didn't know before, he does now

http://uk.eurosport.y...remony-072316990.html

[chaptazbru]

Personally, I think he got what he deserved, wish they'd boo'd Cameron as well !

[joggerjayne]

Because he's having to run an austere economy to bail us out of the crap in which we were left by a decade of reckless Labour administration?

I don't think it's really relevant at the moment when someone walks out into an Olympic stadium, a moment he will treasure for the rest of his life ... and the crowd decide it's more important to have a pop at some politician that to give him an uninterrupted wall of cheering.

[chaptazbru]

Obviously a lot of people feel the same or he wouldn't have got boo'd !!

[chaptazbru]

And it's already been said on here that it didn't detract from the medal ceremony ......

[chaptazbru]

O and for how much longer are people going to keep blaming Labour for the mess the country's in - how long have these muppets been in for now ?????

[emmie]

no excuse to boo, i do think that it was bad mannered.

[emmie]

was there today, and quite honestly i would have been very embarrassed had i heard someone booing no matter who it was.

[EvianBaby]

Quite, Nightmare. Although I did state it wasn't my expertese (even though I'm surprised I didn't spot my own mistake within you're/your). My point was to show Gladeian that if he's going to jump on others for their mistakes he should make sure he hasn't made any of his own.

[Sqad]

chapta

\\\\O and for how much longer are people going to keep blaming Labour for the mess the country's in\\\

I would say at least......20 years.

Labour left a national debt greater than that of Greece.

That should give you some idea.

[sir.prize]

I am sure the political allegiance is not the issue. It was a rare opportunity for the people associated with or afflicted by disablement to let the man known how they feel about his/party's policies.

[joggerjayne]

//and for how much longer are people going to keep blaming Labour for the mess the country's in?//

Hard to say. In 2008, Labour were still blaming Mrs Thatcher.

[joggerjayne]

In fact, during their entire three periods in power, Labour still maintained that any problems were due to the previous, previous, previous Tory government.

Makes you wonder why they bothered standing for election if they thought they couldn't change anything.

[solvitquick]

He was lucky to get-off with mere boo's - no violence adovocated! - 60,000 v-signs would have been approprate. This Tory thick-skulled slime-ball, like Cameron and his other Eton-and_ Oxford millionaire cronies, are stealing from the aged, sick, poor and disabled to give to their fellow-rich . Typical Tories: they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Except for this lot maybe -they even can't work out the costs. The DAY after the First Olympics,schools were allowed to sell off sports fields! The inherited the debt baloney? See below, Part 2.

[emmie]

Majority of the people watching the Paralympics on the park are able bodied. Those participating are the ones with some form of disability.
So the booing directed at Osbourne, was not from the athletes, but people who should leave politics out of the sporting arena. If they have an axe to grind, do it at a more appropriate time. It may not have detracted from the games, but it would have left him highly embarrassed.
Prince Harry was at the Swimming event this morning, did anyone boo him for his bad behaviour, er no they didn't.

[emmie]

Labour party had been selling off school parks, playing fields long before this lot got in on the act, make no mistake about that.

[jno]

surely the insult to the medallists was to call in a politician to present the medals? The audience booed him, not the athletes.

[chaptazbru]

Well said solvit. My sentiments EXACTLY. Slimeballs the lot of 'em ......

[emmie]

it was a mistake to send him in to present medals, having said that he did, and was roundly booed, that wasn't sporting at all, but crass.

[LazyGun]

Not crass - finely judged. Maximum impact, with a clearly rattled Osborne, who was there on the usual politico task to bask in the reflected glory being made uncomfortable by disabled, friends family and carers of disabled and anyone else in the audience who feel that this coalition are treating the disabled abysmally. with Osborne being a major architect of such treatment.

Politicians have a thick skin - I am sure he will get over it.

[tonyav]

'' Hard to say. In 2008 , Labour were still blaming Mrs Thatch ''
Well I still do, she sold off the family Silver. And we are all or most of us still paying for it imo.