1. Getting Booed At The Paralympics
Aside from Liam Neeson's appearance in Life's Too Short, where he attempts to perform some improvisational comedy with Ricky Gervais, this is the funniest thing I've seen in absolutely ages. It's the look on George's face as he initially registers that he's being booed, followed by the smug assumption that it's just some good natured panto villain style banter, which prompts him to guffaw (rather like I do when Beyoncé rings me for a date. Again. And I have to turn her down. Again. Get a grip, love. I'm out of your league), and then the realisation that... Wait a cotton pickin' minute... 80,000 people really hate me... I could watch it on YouTube for hours, if only I didn't have to endure that dreadful advert featuring Lindsay Stirling, who somehow thinks that if she mimes playing violin in different exotic locations we'll shell out a tenner for her mediocre, sub-Britain's Got Talent abomination masquerading as an album. It is quite, quite horrible. Anyway, this booing was genuine discontent eloquently articulated in the direction of its intended target. It was a watershed moment. The ConDems created a myth that the present economic mess is the previous governments fault. They say that Tony Charisma and his backing group The Charismatones, led by Gordon Brown, ran up huge public debts by wasteful spending on unnecessary public bureaucracies. The truth, of course, is that Our Tone and Gordon Brown stuck religiously to the Conservative spending blueprint and it all went pear-shaped when the global crisis struck. Whilst Gordon Brown has been labelled a failure George Osborne has spent every single day in his role as Chancellor peeling that label off Gordon and affixing it to his own forehead with superglue. When Gordon Brown made a similar appearance at a Paralympics medal ceremony he was cheered warmly. The reaction to George marked the date when the Conservatives took responsibility for their poor economic management and for what many disadvantaged and disabled people, and their families, see as a concerted campaign against them and the benefits they claim.