How do you know if you are a bit unpopular with the public? If you are loudly booed by thousands of people in the Olympic Stadium.
George Osborne became the first person to receive such treatment at the hands of the normally jubilant crowd in the 80,000 seater arena on Monday evening.
The boos happened as the chancellor stepped out in front of the public to present medals at the Paralympic Games victory ceremony for the men's 400 metres T38 class.
Chancellor George Osborne prepares to present medals for the men's T38 400m race, during which he was loudly booed as his name was announced in the Olympic Stadium
Quite the contrast to 60,000 people in Hyde Park chanting Boris Johnson's name in appreciation on the eve of the Olympic Games opening ceremony in July.
George Osborne reacts to the boos as he presents medals for the men's T38 400m race at the Olympic Stadium
And perhaps even more galling for Osborne will be the knowledge that former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was cheered by the crowd when he presented medals at the Aquatic centre at almost the same time.
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Prime Minister David Cameron
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
Chancellor George Osborne
Foreign Secretary William Hague
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt
After a stressful year in the DCMS, Jeremy Hunt moves from Culture to Health, replacing Andrew Lansley.
Home Secretary Theresa May
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude
Chief Secretary To The Treasury Danny Alexander
Minister without Portfolio, Ken Clarke
Having stepped down from the Justice Department, Clarke is supposedly staying in Government rather than hanging up his boots.
Chris Grayling will replace him as Justice Secretary.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling
Chris Grayling, formerly in the Department of Work and Pensions, will step up to hold the job vacated by Ken Clarke.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller
Maria Miller has taken up the DCMS job after Jeremy Hunt moved to the Department of Health.
Miller is one of the few new faces in the cabinet.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles
Education Secretary Michael Gove
Minister for Internation Development, Justine Greening
Greening, who has been subject to plenty of rumours since her fallout over a potential third Heathrow runway.
Greening was in No 10 for over an hour on Tuesday, presumably arguing her case and battling to stay in the cabinet. She will now take over Andrew Mitchell's spot at DfID.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin
McLoughlin, who has spent the past two years handling backbench rebels as Chief Whip, moves to the DfT, taking over from under-pressure Justine Greening.
Greening has yet to be moved.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey
Attorney General Dominic Grieve
Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin
Baroness Warsi
Warsi, one of the earlest victims of the reshuffle, has been ousted as party co-chairman and is to be replaced by Grant Shapps.
Warsi instead moves to to the Foreign Office as a junior minister, while also working as faith and communities minister.
Party Co-Chairman Grant Shapps
Shapps, who was the housing minister, is bumped up to party chairman, taking over from the demoted Sayeeda Warsi.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson
Spelman leaves her post, to be replaced by the former Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson.
Work And Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith
Leader of the House Andrew Lansley
Despite recently setting in motion huge overhauls to the NHS, Lansley has been moved to fill Sir George Young's spot as Leader of the House.
Jeremy Hunt will succeed him in the Department of Health.
Business Secretary Vince Cable
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers
Theresa Villiers, who gave nothing away as she approached Parliament with a wide smile on her face on Tuesday, replaces Owen Paterson.
Paterson has moved to Defra.
Welsh Secretary David Jones
Cheryl Gillan was one name always likely to be taken off the list, and she is replaced by David Jones, who served beneath her as a Minister for Wales.
Scottish Secretary Michael Moore
Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell has moved moved from the Department for International Development to the role of Chief Whip, replacing Patrick McLoughlin.
How do you know if you are a bit unpopular with the public? If you are loudly booed by thousands of people in the Olympic Stadium.
George Osborne became the first person to receive such treatment a...
How do you know if you are a bit unpopular with the public? If you are loudly booed by thousands of people in the Olympic Stadium.
George Osborne became the first person to receive such treatment a...
Oh! the great British public - what do they know except chucking Churchill out of office after he'd saved the country from Nazism.
This chancellor who is trying to sort the mess left by Gordo and his lackeys - and were booing him and cheering the latter!!! hahahahahaha ----WERE ARE DOOMED as a country who full of lazy, irrational, fickle people who don't know what is good for them...
Luke_Fisher1: Oh! the great British public - what do they know
Considering how many ordinary working folks, and the genuine unemployed could not afford or access the Olympics or the Paralymics- the (My imagined) cross section of society that had the collective nous to boo Osbourne are feeling the pinch too. (But lucky enough to get tickets and spend their hard earned)
We are all in this together- and if that isn't sufficient to get the message home to this coalition then we are doomed.
I bet he went home and cried!
Reality_always_bites: Considering how many ordinary working folks, and the genuine unemployed
I know its got nothing to do with the story, but has anyone else noticed what a complete set of incredibly nerdish looking folk occupy all the Major Offices of State in this Administration.
Successive Governments after the war, threw up people who had earned respect, most had actually worked for a living, a helluva lot of them had served with distinction in the Armed Forces.
I mean have a good look at the Cabinet,you can really imagine them back at school ragging each other in the tuck shop, they would be the sneaks the bullies the ones every else regarded with contempt,
Look at the education secretary and that ginger guy who they always trot out to give bad news delivered in the same monotonous drone , as far as the electorate understand he could be speaking in Klingon
Dontholdyourbreath: I know its got nothing to do with the story,
Gordon Brown was cheered - folks do have a short memory!
Osborne being booed was extremely disrespectful, as he pronounced the cuts, but the Government, in it's totality, agreed the terms.
partjanie: Gordon Brown was cheered - folks do have a short
Johns Cousin
That's Gideon's whole problem, after over two years of pretending to be chancellor this know nothing internationaly reviled A-hat has run up the biggest respect deficit in political history.
jmmcmkn: Johns Cousin That's Gideon's whole problem, after over two years
this has shown how the people of Great Britain feel about a man who has singled out the disabled and the poor of this country and to hit them so hard
i just dont know how he had the bare face cheek to turn up to give medals out
he was probably only there to say.... you can win medals well done you dont need disability payments now find a job or you will starve...... the caring face of Tory policies
well lets hope it wont be long now untill the people of this country throw them out on there ear once again and NEVER LET THEM BACK IN
cookiephil10: this has shown how the people of Great Britain feel
bit ironic this government robs the disabled of their much needed money,has atos sponsoring the olympics the same prats this government brought in to take money away from the disabled and people wonder why he gets booed giving out medals he had the audacity to turn up,i think we all know they wont be serving another term
qvcaddict1957: bit ironic this government robs the disabled of their much
On the one hand the elected representatives of the people are usually given some respect.
But the Chancellor seems to have overdrawn his account. Respect has to earned after an initial period. Apart from pasty taxes there are so many economic policies just drifting. A few examples, wind farm subsidies (do we subsidise the gas turbines too?), solar panels, HS2 , Universal Pension, Universal benefit, export credit guarantees, MOD overspends, etc etc. When is he going to do something?
Elsewhere Peter Stringfellow presents some ideas. At least it's a plan!
FairPlayTony: On the one hand the elected representatives of the people
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The Huffington Post UK | By Ned Simons Posted: 03/09/2012 21:23 Updated: 04/09/2012 12:16