My dear Dawn,
How lovely of you to cry on purpose.
Lime jacket. Wet eyes. Then the phone up, grin locked, colleagues arranged behind you like borrowed scenery. You wrote that it was an emotional rollercoaster. You posted proof that you enjoyed the ride.
Hope Again.
That is what they put on the wall while Andy Burnham, two months in the job, told the hall he would build a care service by taking the extra rise off the pension from 2030. You wept for the speech. The invoice goes to people who were not in Liverpool.
7.33 million still waiting in July. How good of you to cry about it in Liverpool.
When the Commons voted on the winter fuel cut, you did not vote. Children were stabbed at Kingsbury High, in your seat. You sent a statement. Then you went to conference, sat with the other MPs, and called it an emotional rollercoaster.
Hope Again.
The list did not move. You did. The hall clapped. You posted the photographs. The pension lock is rewritten from 2030. The queue stays where it is.
Hope Again.
For whom, Dawn?
That was not a rollercoaster.
That is you.
What a speech it was an emotional rollercoaster!
Sitting with MPs, some of us started crying.