With there seemingly being no end to the Daily Telegraph's expense horizon, it is interesting to note that, with just days before Labour face an electoral humiliation, the bottles are starting to tumble with remarkable regularity.

First Margaret Moran, then Elliot Morley (both with sick notes from their mums). Today, not one but three MPs, two of whom are former ministers, are to stand down, ensuring their golden goodbyes before suffering the ignominy of perhaps losing their deposits at the next general election. David Chaytor - another mortgage fraudster, Beverley Hughes, who dished out dodgy visas and then lied in the HoC about it, and Patricia Hewitt, who bankrupted the NHS - all taking to the liferafts as the SS Gordon Brown founders on the northern rocks.

But it is with glee that I greeted the news that the Home Secretary - or should that be One Home and A Back Bedroom Secretary is going to resign ahead of Gordom's team picking exercise early next week. You know, where everyone lines up in the playground and Gordoom picks his bestest friends regardless of whether they are any good at games because the nasty boys left Gordoom to do the accounts when he should have been team captain all along. And so, Jacqboots has decided it's time to go - waaaaay past her sack by date. But is she going because she has has been caught "flipping", or because her hubby watches mucky movies and we have to pay for it, or because she claims for bathplugs, patio heaters etc., or because the ID Card is going to end in a pile of shite, or because she allowed the police to arrest an opposition MP? No, it is another arse-covering exercise (and plenty there is to cover). Or perhaps, just perhaps there are more revelations to be presented in the DT which would precipitate Gordoom actually having to have a pair and sack her. Whatever the situation, it doesn't look good for Gordoom, the bottles are starting to fall off the wall and the last bottle to fall will be Gordoom but only because he will have superglued his arse to the PM's chair.