Hain resigns

The problem with clinging desperately to office, with the accoutrement of prehensile buttocks, is that if eventually you are compelled to resign, as has happened to Peter Hain today whose travails over undeclared funding have been reported to the Met police, it makes you look extremely rubbish. Even more for the Prime Minister who has given luke-warm but declared support to Hain throughout - this makes Brown look both incredibly indecisive and politically wrong-headed. Bit of a result really, all things considered.