Translation: "Bugger, I've been caught and everyone thinks I'm a **** so I'd better try and show some contrition."
Edit: the **** was not the c-word!
His wife Teresa, 47, a school supervisor said: "He normally never goes out anywhere without me. I let him out once by himself and look what happens.
"It is so unlike him – he wouldn't hurt a fly."
Let's hope the "heartless Tories" review his incapacity benefit as well , he didn't look too incapacitated to me.