 Bessie 's aggressive anti @-@ Toryism was frequently in evidence during her first years in parliament , especially when she could attribute to them the economic miseries of her Liverpool constituents . In a Commons debate on 28 March 1946 she welcomed the government 's decision to close the Liverpool Cotton Association , which she denounced as " the bulwark of the Tory administration in Liverpool " , nothing more than a group of financiers who gambled with the industry in order to make profits for themselves . On 1 May 1947 The Manchester Guardian , reporting the chaotic Commons scenes during the divisions following a debate on the nationalisation of the railways , recorded that " Mrs E.M. Braddock ... danced a jig as she moved over to the Opposition benches where she occupied the seat usually used by Mr Churchill . " When the Bolton Evening News called her performance " nauseating , a sorry degradation of democratic discussion " she sued the newspaper for defamation . She lost the case , and a subsequent appeal was unsuccessful . 
