Gordon Brown on Peter Hain:

"He took his eye off the ball and he has apologised. The matter must rest with the authorities, who will look at these matters," Mr Brown said.

In other words, Hain's fucked.

But there are two other striking things in the BBC article about the undignified fall from grace of Peter Hain. First of all, there's this:

But the Tories have themselves comes under fire after it was reported that shadow chancellor George Osborne did not declare £487,000 of donations to the Register of Members' Interests.

Cameron has said:

Mr Cameron said that was a "completely different" matter, as the money had been declared to, and published by, the Electoral Commission.

But he would say that, wouldn't he?

Finally, there is the comment from Lembit Opik:

On Sunday, Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik said politicians calling for Mr Hain to quit were "opportunists" and no party was blameless on party funding.

Quite. Whilst I am feeling utterly misanthropic this morning, and whilst my contempt for that perma tanned twat Hain is boundless, there are all as bad as each other. Snouts in the trough, gorging. How long until one of the money grabbing whores in the Commons cites these two examples to take more money from the electorate to pay for their shitty election campaigns?