Hain Goes!

Good news. Just a shame that it didn't happen any earlier.

And for what it is worth, I hope the police do investigate and that the incompetent, perma-tanned dickhead is dragged through the courts, convicted, and utterly humiliated.

UPDATE:

And the Brown team are spinning this for all it is worth. Check this comment out from Gordo himself:

"I recognise that, given the circumstances and your desire to clear your name, this is the right and honourable thing to do."

See, this must be a new form of right and honourable that I haven't been informed about. It would have been right and honourable for Hain to go as soon as this ugly mess began. Resigning after the matter was referred to the police is far too late. There is no honour in this. It is an embarrasing mess for Hain's department, government, party and country. There is no dignity in his resignation, it was forced. The unedifying vision of Nu Labour's answer to the Tango Man clinging to power for the last few weeks has been a national disgrace.

Frankly, the right and honourable thing for Hain to do now would be to immolate himself publically in front of the Department for Work and Pensions. Anything else seems, at this point, a bit of a cop out.