Donations Row, Minister Peter Hain Resigns.

Peter (don’t mention Gibraltar) Hain quits post to clear his name?
It seems that in order to escape any risk of prosecution via an official police enquiry, you should resign your ministerial post. And then you get away with any dodgy dealings Scott free! There was a time when a villain who had committed a crime would be hounded to the ends of the earth consuming decades of passing time till they were caught and brought to justice? Ronald Biggs of the great train robbery springs to mind. Yet Mr Biggs could be argued as being the more trustworthy of the two. These days you just need to quit your job to become immune from prosecution? After a clearout of dubious funding of the three main political parties, or rather someone ratting on MP’s about how much they had scrounged illegally, Mr Peter Hain gets caught with wads of undeclared folding moolah stuffed up his arse that he insisted ‘was a mistake’? Well, an honest mistake! He assures His Boss! The £100,000 pound of undeclared funds found out by the Guardian were channelled through a think tank called the “Progressive Policies Forum”.
No matter which way you look at it, Peter Hain’s behaviour is more akin to Father Ted Crilly of Craggy Island!....“Honest, it was just resting in my account!”.......
Not two days later a further £82,000 was found floating around not declared? Surely a paltry hundred grand of undeclared funds would have jogged his memory about the other eighty two grand he had stashed away.
Obviously it didn’t? His excuse of simply forgetting just does not hold water at all.
However, Hain does have previous form in another area of bending the truth other than being forgetful? His brief slot as Minister for Europe saw him botch up things with joint sovereignty of Gibraltar with Spain. He was accused of deliberately misrepresenting the situation gaining him the title as one of the most unpopular politicians ever to visit Gibraltar.
One of his first public gaffes that is known about was during his time as Secretary for Northern Ireland he nodded off twice during concerns over an important murder investigation by a loyalist paramilitary group. His nodding donkey impression and vibrating epiglottis was witnessed by Lady Sylvia Hermon, MP, who was present at the meeting?? It begs the question ‘how the hell do these people get to run a country?’.

Sources: Guardian Newspaper, Wikipedia.