Right i managed to get mine working. If you havent managed yet, then do this. If you have, then i'll leave this here for other people:

Settings > Network > Disable "connect through SOCKS proxy"
then close the wallet completely and restart the program.

then go to
Help > debug window > console
and add all of these nodes individually. copy each line as i put it here and press enter after each:

addnode 5.255.66.44 add
addnode 162.243.224.78 add
addnode 23.243.49.154 add
addnode 209.202.6.118 add
addnode 45.33.29.45 add
addnode 139.162.4.29 add
addnode 172.104.102.113 add

it should start after a couple of minutes.