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If George Osborne was a gladiator...

by Avaaz Team - posted 05 September 2012 09:06

UK chancellor George Osborne survived this week's cabinet reshuffle, so he must be popular with the prime minister. But is he popular with the public? You decide:


Being booed by a crowd of 80,000 is a fairly reliable measure of (un)popularity. The crowd may not have been polite, but they were right. Osborne, who has made serious cuts to welfare and disability benefits while slashing taxes for the super rich, is the last person to have been handing out medals at the Paralympics.

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