Too bad it wasn’t for his blatant disregard for the rule of law and civil rights, but at least we know now that smary hypocritical Labour weasels can be brought down just as well as their Tory counterparts could in the eighties and nineties.
For those who don’t know why Blunkett resigned, it all started when his affair with a married woman was revealed; soon after it turned out that he may have …helped his lover, Kimberly Quinn (publisher of the rightwing Spectator) in various ways, including fast tracking visa applications for her nanny. It then turned out she was pregnant with her second child, which may or may not be Blunkett’s,which did not stop him from starting a lawsuit against Mrs Quinn to obtain access rights to her two year old son, which he apparantely believes is his and with whom he has been parading as his own son when he went on holidays with Mrs Quinn…
Apart from the legalities of it all, the hypocrisy of it all is quite astounding. The sheer cheek of somebody who sees no bone in sueing his pregnant ex-lover, a married woman over visiting rights to her son which may or not be fathered by him, lecturing others on morals. Incredible.
It certainly makes me Proud of Britain to see him gone.
Now for the rest of the cabinet…
Now the question is who will be the new Home Secretary: Peter “incompetent” Hain perhaps or Alan “who he?” Milburn. The other question is what will happen to Blunkett’s pet projects, like the national ID card he wanted to introduce.