I watched Hain squirming as he gave his speech to the media today.
According to the BBC 6pm news Hain resigned after he received a telephone call telling him that the BiB were going to interview/take a statement from him concerning his funding for his Deputy Leadership bid.
Does his resignation mean an end to the investigation?
I hope not. He is a sleaze ball and if guilty of any 'irregularities' he should be punished. I could not escape any penalties if I was found to have contravened the laws concerning my election expenses and as Hain often proclaims his "integrity and honesty" let him be judged after a thorough,politically free investigation.
As for being shunted off to Europe..........Is'nt it a rest home for inept Labour politicians?
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Hain comes across as thick to me on T.V. They reckon he got a 1st and is some sort of intellect???? This just about proves he must have got that 1st via dubious means IMHO. I wouldn't trust the guy to be able to do up his laces.
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Originally Posted by Britannist:
Good question.

It is with enormous pleasure that I heard of his resignation :-). Politically, this is some of the best news since Mandelson and Charles Clarke left the Government. Like those two, Hain is a rampant europhile.

This man Hain wrote a book highly critical of the EU, the euro and the EU threat to our liberties in 1996 - but turned pro-EU after appointment to the europhile Blair Labour Government.

In 2003 the awful UKIP-hating Hain told anti-euro protesters to "pack up your placards and go home."

It is an insult to the British people that he was made a minister and Blair and Labour insulted the good folk of Northern Ireland and Wales by later making him Secretary of State for both of those parts of the UK.

I hope that he never gets back into the Cabinet - but I have my doubts. Europhile Mandelson returned to Government after his first 'resignation'.

It is alleged that Hain is not the most popular person in the Labour Party - certainly his poor fifth place in last year's Labour Deputy leadership contest points to that claim being correct.

Another member of The labour party who sacrificed his principles for a seat in government, he will not be missed. I hope the next announcement is the defeat of this government.
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Originally Posted by Phil Sheldon:
As for being shunted off to Europe..........Is'nt it a rest home for inept Labour politicians?

Don't forget inept Tory politicians like Chriss Patten too.
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Election loser Patten hates UKIP.

Which means that UKIP is achieving its aim of rattling europhiles :-).
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Now Alan Johnson is being accused of taking a donation without let anyone know, are we going through all of the senior members of the corrupt Labour party NOW!.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Labour hit by new donations row
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Originally Posted by steve fowler:
Now Alan Johnson....

Another anti-UKIP europhile. I am glad his bid to become Labour Deputy leader failed :-).
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So am i mate :-).
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........:-) :-)
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