Jägerball in Bildern - Mehr Polit-Promis auf der Pirsch als am Opernball #News #Nachrichten
I was just looking up David Blunkett on Wikipedia, for reasons.
I knew he'd been blind from birth, but bloody hell this is quite some opening paragraph to the "Early life" section:
[Blunkett] grew up in an underprivileged family; in 1959 he endured a family tragedy when his father was gravely injured in an industrial accident: he fell into a vat of boiling water while at work as a foreman for the East Midlands Gas Board, dying a month later. This left the surviving family in poverty, especially since the board refused to pay compensation for two years because his father had worked past the retirement age, dying at the age of 67.