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In crying crocodile tears, we know that this was a noisy, showy action.
But there is this to be said at once, particularly about the crocodile tears in some newspapers.
Yet if we examine the charges and wade through the crocodile tears to reach the solid facts, what do we find?
I have seen crocodile tears being shed, and a bit of a song and dance going on, rather like in a university debating society.
It is not enough for us to weep crocodile tears over this affair.
You have been shedding crocodile tears on behalf of the working men.
There is no place for crocodile tears, sympathy without funding or condemnation without action.
I have never been one to shed crocodile tears over the loss of our shipbuilding industry.
Quite frankly, his crocodile tears are being shed rather late.
Many people will weep crocodile tears and talk about the need for inquiries.
No amount of wringing of hands or crocodile tears will bring those mills back into life.
They cry crocodile tears and say that they suffer from a design fault and require what they describe as a "repair element".
If he is shedding crocodile tears about ratepayers' money, will he return that £45 million to the ratepayers, where it rightly belongs?
That is what is behind all the crocodile tears we have seen this afternoon and in recent weeks.
He cries crocodile tears for the industry that his party sought to destroy.
