Ex-Chancellor George Osborne filmed shooting huge machine gun in the jungle on family holiday to Vietnam war battlefields
Sacked Treasury boss paid £1 a bullet to fire an old US army M60 weapon, Brit tourists say
SACKED chancellor George Osborne has been filmed shooting a huge machine gun in the jungle while on a family holiday in Vietnam.
Video footage emerged of the politician blasting away on the trigger of an old US Army M60 - the favourite weapon of movie action man John Rambo.
Fellow British tourists said Mr Osborne - fired from the Cabinet by new PM Theresa May last month - queued up to buy his ammo for £1 a bullet while on a tour of a former Vietnam War battlefield.
His 15-year-old son then filmed his dad going full Rambo on the rifle range as he let 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.
“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.”
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Mr Osborne has kept a low profile since he was dumped from high office in the wake of the Brexit vote.
But witnesses said he was "grinning" after his go on the rifle range, 6,500 miles away from Whitehall at the Cu Chi tunnels near Saigon.
The complex - now a major tourist attraction - features miles of tunnels where the Viet Cong hid underground to avoid carpet bombing as they mounted guerilla attacks against US troops based around the South Vietnam capital.
A British businessman who saw Mr Osborne said other visitors "jumped out of their skins" when he fired the machine gun.
Mr Osborne, the MP for Tatton, in Cheshire, is in the Far East on holiday with his wife Frances and two teenage children.
Last month it emerged the ex-Chancellor is in line to pocket £50,000 a time on the after-dinner speech circuit in America.
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