Former UK Politician, Iain Duncan Smith 'wept over plight of young mother' during TV interview.
In the UK..for the majority of working class... Former Politician Ian Duncan Smith (Known as I.D.S) who made decisions on Wealth fare and the benefits system was I believe seen as very unpopular after making many changes in the system that really badly effected the Poor and disabled for the worst..I believe many despised him or at least the policies that he created.
Is this him Genuinely appearing sorry for things that he may have been responsible for towards certain persons financial benefits who were in some cases made homeless or even died by being forced of disability into work..
Was he willingly acting on behalf of the system and people above him...in a corrupt system... or was he FORCED to do it.
I say that as somethings that I have recently discovered has suggested certain people at the top are held to ransom to have themselves or their families targeted if they do not go along with doing as they are told.. as part of the corrupt system to destroy society even more..
I don't think that I have ever seen any politician show such sadness or remorse.
Former Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith "broke down" when he recalled the plight of a young mother during a documentary on poverty. (Picture: BBC)
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Former Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith "broke down and wept" when he recalled the plight of a young mother during a documentary on poverty, according to broadcaster Ian Hislop.
The Conservative, who dramatically quit as Work and Pensions Secretary over cuts to disability benefits, appeared to choke up as he told how the struggling teenage parent had "written off her life".
The interview with Mr Hislop was filmed in December last year, just months before the former party leader accused David Cameron and George Osborne of balancing the books on the backs of the poor as he stormed out of government.
Mr Duncan Smith said: "I remember visiting a lone parent a few years ago in an estate which had a very high number of single parents, young women, and when I sat and talked to her I sensed that she wanted to do something, she wanted to be better than her circumstances but she had no skills, she'd fallen out of school, she didn't know where to go.
"And, I remember leaving there thinking very simply, this is my daughter."
Mr Duncan Smith then apologised as he appeared to become emotional, telling Hislop: " I'm sorry I'm quite emotional about this ..."
He went on: "Nineteen years old," before his eyes welled up and his lip quivered.
After holding up his hand and pausing briefly, he continued: "My aspiration for my daughter was boundless. And here I'm sitting with a 19-year-old girl who had written off her life and had no aspiration and no self-worth. She was a product of a system. And my point was, what could I have done, what could we do to change her life?"
Private Eye editor Hislop, a team captain on the BBC's Have I Got News For You, said it had been an "extraordinary moment".
He told the Radio Times: " It was a curious thing. IDS actually broke down. He wept in front of me. It was a very extraordinary moment."
Asked if he comforted the Tory, he replied: " No, I just watched him cry. We're sitting in the Department for Work and Pensions talking about his desire to improve the lot of those without any privileges or start in life and he starts welling up."
Mr Duncan Smith's resignation in March sparked days of brutal Tory in-fighting after he launched an all-out attack on the Chancellor's "indefensible" Budget, claiming that cuts to disabled benefits in the financial package were "politically driven" and suggesting that Mr Osborne had abandoned the austerity principle of "we're all in this together".
:: Workers Or Shirkers? Ian Hislop's Victorian Benefits will be broadcast at 8pm on Thursday, April 7 on BBC Two.
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