George Osborne Booed By 80,000 People.

There's little doubt that George Osborne is the least popular Chancellor of the Exchequer in living memory. There are many reasons for this. He has no sense of fair play, cutting money to those who need it while, at the same time, providing his wealthy pals with nice juicy tax cuts. He's a wealthy toff, completely out of touch with the daily lives of the millions struggling just to make ends meet in this country. He is both arrogant - stubbornly refusing to change the trajectory of his economic policy - and incompetent - doing u-turn after u-turn as many of his policies are revealed to be completely unworkable. Today he was booed by 80,000 spectators at the Paralympics who were voicing their disgust with a government that is cutting benefits to the most vulnerable in our society - the sick and the disabled - while, at the same time, trying to extract cudos from the Paralympics. Yet he is not directly associated with cuts in benefits to the disabled. That particular piece of nastiness is the brainchild of Ian Duncan Smith who, it must be said, would probably not have left the arena alive if he'd been foolish enough to make an appearance. Yet the crowd were right to voice their disgust. George Osborne is setting the economic agenda and is as guilty as IDS in terms of the spite that has been aimed at the sick and disabled. He, less than anyone, can claim to be merely "following orders," invoking the "Nuremburg defence". He is not a minion but the chief architect of the Tory viciousness that he is pleased to describe as "policy".