What a Contrast. Peter Hain is found to have undeclared donations of over £100,000 via a sham think tank and he hangs on for weeks until the police are about to call before resigning his post while Gordon Brown dithers. Derek Conway, a Conservative MP, is found to have put his sons on staff and paid them thousands for doing nothing and David Cameron sacks him the parliamentary party the day after the story breaks. Indecision on the part of the Prime Minister versus decisiveness and leadership from the Leader of the Opposition. Cameron has clearly done the right thing, and his firmness about a misuse of the public purse contrasts with Labour's unwillingness to deal with borderline corruption.
Conway, on the other hand, is beneath contempt. We had him on the shortlist for the Billericay selection some years ago, but he fell by the wayside when the selection committee checked his references. Though personally plausible, no-one who had worked with him had anything positive to say about his personality or his abilities. Pity Bexley weren't so thorough.
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