GAUCHE: THEY'LL NONE OF THEM BE MISSED

5 June 2009

THEY'LL NONE OF THEM BE MISSED

A small point, but an important one, about the government resignations that have rocked Gordon Brown into meltdown.

So far (as of 11.30am Friday 5 June), apart from Patricia Hewitt and John Hutton, all of them appear to have been severely compromised by the Daily Telegraph's expenses revelations.

And now they have resigned, with most of them making it known that they left because Gordon had been horrid/hates women/is useless, it becomes much more difficult for Labour's NEC panel to haul them in for questioning. "It's not fair!" they will declare. "He's just trying to take revenge!"

Convenient, huh?

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