Moment ex-Chancellor George Osborne shoots machine gun in Vietnam jungle
Sacked Tory spotted paying £1 a bullet to fire an old US Army M60 – the favourite weapon of the Sylvester Stallone character
GEORGE Osborne channelled his inner Rambo after being pictured shooting a huge machine gun on a family trip to Vietnam.
The sacked former Chancellor was spotted by fellow tourists paying £1 a bullet to fire an old US Army M60 – the favourite weapon of the Sylvester Stallone character.
He was filmed blasting away at the Cu Chi rifle range while on a tour of a former Vietnam War battlefield.
After letting off several ear-splitting bursts of gunfire one onlooker told the : “He really let rip.
“We were all having a bit of a laugh about it – that he was aiming at a picture of Boris Johnson or Theresa May.”
Another holidaymaker said: “We saw him in the queue waiting for bullets and then he went down to the range and fired the biggest machine gun they’ve got.
“It is one of those really, really big machine guns – the Rambo style one.
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“He queued up and paid a pound a bullet, I think it costs. I couldn’t see how many he bought but it was several.
“His son went down with him but when I went down with our kids, we were actually told they weren’t supposed to go on to the range.”
The Tory MP’s political career was left in tatters following the UK’s historic vote for Brexit, after he campaigned extremely hard for the UK to stay in the EU.
Seen as the architect of Project Fear, the aggressive scare tactic used to convince Brits to vote for remain, he was then hit by the resignation as Prime Minister of his close friend David Cameron.
Having been at one time tipped to take over from him and enter Number 10, Mr Osborne was instead bundled out of Number 11 Downing Street by his successor Theresa May.
But as these pictures show he seems to be relieving any stress by firing off a few rounds thousands of miles away from Westminster.
Witnesses said he was "grinning" after his go on the rifle range, while a British businessman who saw Mr Osborne said other visitors "jumped out of their skins" when he fired the machine gun.
He is in the Far East with his wife Frances and two teenage children, as Parliament is in recess until next month.
But the MP for Tatton in Cheshire has already sorted himself out a new job, having signed up to an agency to pocket £50,000 a go for after-dinner speeches.
After the story about his gun-rang antics appeared this morning he tweeted to say: “After all these years, I finally have a front page in the Daily Mirror worth keeping.”