The Prime Minister is not just angry. He is scared.
"Angry"/ "Scared" = AFFECT & implicit (provoked) JUDGEMENT. "Angry" and "scared" are obvious examples of AFFECT, but here, however, there is an additional "provocation" going on. For a national leader to be "scared" reflects badly on his ability to perform well. That the Prime Minister is "scared" provokes the JUDGEMENT that he is either incapacitated or even that he is cowardly.
Labour is in trouble in Wales. Families which voted Labour for generations are deserting him.
Implicit negative JUDGEMENT. By implication suggests that Labour is performing badly or even that it has been behaving dishonourable - why else would long-standing supporters desert.
When Trade Secretary Stephen Byers says Corus should have consulted him he knows that, bound hand and foot by our masters in Brussels, he could have done nothing to help.
"bound hand an foot" = explicit negative JUDGEMENT (incapacity).
"masters" = almost explicit JUDGEMENT - those in Brussels are construed as powerful, as in control. There is, of course, a potential token of negative JUDGEMENT here. Presumably it is not right that people in Brussels should have such a capacity to control the people in the UK.
"he could have done nothing to help" = implicit negative Judgement (incapacity)
What he wanted was a delay - of about three months until after election day. Byers' temper tantrums were more about fear of losing his job than concern about steelworkers losing theirs.
"temper tantrum" = explicit negative JUDGEMENT. To give way in this way to excess emotion is necessarily wrong in the culture.
"fear" = AFFECT, possible provocation of negative JUDGEMENT - fear may be a sign of weakness or, here, a sign of an unsavoury self-preoccupation
"more fear of losing his job than concern about steelworkers of losing theirs" = implicit (token) Judgement. Here the account gives rise to the inference that the minister is selfishly concerned for his own future and is uncaring of, or at least not sufficiently concerned about, the plight of the workers
