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Did he expect cheers?
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Ty for your comment on my "sermon" - later maybe "sermons" after my Part 2, lol. Understood and service ended - please don't forget to drop money in the begging tray! .
You make an excellent chairperson in this debate in trying to keep us rabble in order and stick to the point - great challenge on AB - well tied Sir. Well done!
You make an excellent chairperson in this debate in trying to keep us rabble in order and stick to the point - great challenge on AB - well tied Sir. Well done!
19:39 Tue 04th Sep 2012
em, have a look at the video (on the first page). Osborne's name is announced and there's booing - actually it sounds more like shock than anger from the audience. But it's already stopped by the time the winners are announced. They get nothing but cheers. There was no disrespect to the competitors whatever. I don't know where people are getting all this from.
i don't see that, i have been at the games, was also there today, and it's been a real treat, the best thing that has happened to us in a long while.
I am well aware of the problems facing those with disabilities, am at the coalface so to speak, but i still think firstly it was a mistake to put him up there, but also for the people who have been cheering on all participants, it shows a lack of sense. It's one bloke, he doesn't make these decisions on his own, seems a sad way to carry on. I don't care for most politicians, but this is a life enhancing sporting occasion and one i shall remember for always.
I am well aware of the problems facing those with disabilities, am at the coalface so to speak, but i still think firstly it was a mistake to put him up there, but also for the people who have been cheering on all participants, it shows a lack of sense. It's one bloke, he doesn't make these decisions on his own, seems a sad way to carry on. I don't care for most politicians, but this is a life enhancing sporting occasion and one i shall remember for always.
Part 2.
The inherited debt was generated to improve the NHS., Education, helping Industry, Innocent Unemployed and of course protecting OUR bank-savings through the saving of bank-racketeers who really created the biggest debt.
Solving the centuries-old "Irish Problem" by Tony Blair and Mo Molem has been an unappreciated achevement and it brought the UK troops back home. Brown and Darling had a 5-year pay-back plan. In fact they left with us with a One Billion Positive Gross Domestic Product - all wiped out in a year by Osbourne's fast cuts via industry/employment damage as well as selling off OUR banks cheaply.
Gordon Brown's leadership was slagged off by the press. But then again he did not cosy-up to the Murdoch rempire nor go riding with the News of the World editor (no inluence either way of course). Before Tory snipers mention Iraq, the tories supported the invasion. Similarly Belfast blip in overall peace.
The inherited debt was generated to improve the NHS., Education, helping Industry, Innocent Unemployed and of course protecting OUR bank-savings through the saving of bank-racketeers who really created the biggest debt.
Solving the centuries-old "Irish Problem" by Tony Blair and Mo Molem has been an unappreciated achevement and it brought the UK troops back home. Brown and Darling had a 5-year pay-back plan. In fact they left with us with a One Billion Positive Gross Domestic Product - all wiped out in a year by Osbourne's fast cuts via industry/employment damage as well as selling off OUR banks cheaply.
Gordon Brown's leadership was slagged off by the press. But then again he did not cosy-up to the Murdoch rempire nor go riding with the News of the World editor (no inluence either way of course). Before Tory snipers mention Iraq, the tories supported the invasion. Similarly Belfast blip in overall peace.
An international sporting arena is not the place for political protest. The many foreign visitors who have travelled to the UK especially for the games must have wondered what the hell was going on. Washing your dirty linen in public is ill-mannered in any circumstances - and since we are hosting these games, I would have hoped that common sense would have prevailed - but it didn't. It was thoughtless, embarrassing and unnecessary.
Well, we all have a point of view. Personally, I am enormously comforted by the sight of a politician attempting to gain some column inches and photo opportunities discomfited by the reaction of a crowd containing many individuals who will be directly impacted by Osbornes strategy. And it bears repeating - as best I can tell from the video, the audience booed Osborne, then cheered the athlete, so no disrespect to the athlete but plenty to Osborne - which is the audiences right - it is still mostly a free country after all. Many in the audience will have been dismayed at the govt policy regarding benefits for the disabled, and they are unlikely to be in a position to voice their disapproval to one of the main architects in such a public space.
And sport has often been a political vehicle. The Olympics are a case in point, with Nations attempting to assert the supremacy of their particular ideology, be it the star spangled banner or the sickle and hammer. In more recent years GB has been doing it, with its focus on technological benefits and marginal gains. SA was the focus of sporting boycotts during the apartheid era, and most people I know were supportive of that.
And sport has often been a political vehicle. The Olympics are a case in point, with Nations attempting to assert the supremacy of their particular ideology, be it the star spangled banner or the sickle and hammer. In more recent years GB has been doing it, with its focus on technological benefits and marginal gains. SA was the focus of sporting boycotts during the apartheid era, and most people I know were supportive of that.
jno //if an international sporting arena isn't the place for political protest, then politicians shouldn't be there. //
Why shouldn't they? Like it or not, they're the elected leaders of this country, and they have every right to be there. This is an international event to which we've invited nations from across the world - and, unlike the protestors, when the eyes of the world are upon them, they are at least conducting themselves in a respectable manner.
Why shouldn't they? Like it or not, they're the elected leaders of this country, and they have every right to be there. This is an international event to which we've invited nations from across the world - and, unlike the protestors, when the eyes of the world are upon them, they are at least conducting themselves in a respectable manner.
they shouldn't be there because it's a sporting occasion, not a political one. What has a chancellor of the Exchequer to do with Paralympic athletes? Osborne can always go to party rallies and be afforded enthusiastic cheers. If he goes to sporting occasions, people will only tell him what they think of him, which is exactly what happened.
It is nonsense to call them "protestors". They were sports fans, and that's what they turned up for - not to see politicians leaping into the limelight. They booed the politician; they cheered the competitors, so all got exactly what they deserved.
To answer the OP: I don't really know what he expected, but I assume it was something do do with reflected glory from an event he had nothing to do with.
It is nonsense to call them "protestors". They were sports fans, and that's what they turned up for - not to see politicians leaping into the limelight. They booed the politician; they cheered the competitors, so all got exactly what they deserved.
To answer the OP: I don't really know what he expected, but I assume it was something do do with reflected glory from an event he had nothing to do with.
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