Last week the SNP MP Mhairi Black gave her maiden speech to Parliament. The young politician inspired the nation with her story of a man in her constituency who came to her crying after a trip to the job centre went wrong:
‘I said to him “how did you get on?” And without saying a word he burst into tears. That grown man standing in front of a 20-year-old crying his eyes out.’
The clip went viral, amassing millions of views worldwide, with Black’s words highly commended by both SNP and Labour politicians alike. So much so that their were whispers of concern at Labour HQ that it could trigger certain members of the party to lurch even further to the left.
So Mr S was intrigued to hear Yvette Cooper give an interview to the Today programme this morning. Asked by John Humphrys to prove that she had a vision for the Labour party should she be elected as leader, Cooper opted to recount a story about a woman she met who had also cried:
‘There’s a woman in my constituency, on polling day she’s got a thousand pounds of bedroom tax areas, and she came up to me to ask for help in tears on polling day.
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