Huhne resigns

Hugh

I hope that the PM promotes someone really effective into this job, irrespective of the colour of their standard. The country needs its most competent people running the ministries, and the LibDems have lost their most capable people, so time to look to the wider coalition talent pool PM.

Joe Jonkler

Why Ed Davey? Given the circumstances of this vacancy this should be a matter for the PM, which hopefully would mean anew Conservative minister instead.

Mark Dubbery

Time for the trusty sword of truth and the shield of fair play eh Mr. H? And time to remove the cretinous expression: "climate change" from the job title too.

Chris M

Presumably he'll have to pull his "Sword of Truth" out from Nick Clegg's back. For a shield I hope it's made from something recycled. Maybe a broken windmill?

startledcod

Iain Dale poses a very interesting question: what happens to Chris Hubris's defence if Vicky Pryce pleads guilty?

HampsteadOwl

Cameron might want to delay his announcement a little while - just to keep the focus on Huhne, the Lib Dems and their discomfort for longer, before it becomes a reshuffle story.

Interesting that Vicky Pryce, in her statement, makes no grand protestations of innocence. She just says she wants the case resolved as quickly as possible. If she accepts that she is guilty, then its hard to see how Huhne can't be too.

Meanwhile, greetings to all Coffee House Collective of Conspiracy Theorists, who were convinced yesterday that a liberal-leftie-establishment fix would see Huhne walk away. How do you like the egg on your faces - scrambled or fried?

Baroness Helena Handcart QC

Joy unconfined.

Swiss Bob

HO, always ready to accept I'm wrong and I repeat my apology to Starmer. He certainly took his time about it though.

PS I am very, very happy to be wrong in this case and am enjoying an early beer along with a lot of other people.

Heartless (Romantic) Curmudgeon

It's GUIDO wot done it!!

The useless H2B will . . . . let's see . . . seek to assuage and appease the whining trendy-bendy-po-faced-hand-wringing-ethnic-skirted climate-change tendency that seem to rate so much on his scale of importance.

Ugh!

Anne Allan

Perfectly happy to be proved wrong. I'm still waiting for a faceful of egg on the EU and immigration.

MaxSceptic

The departure of the smug, sanctimonious Huhne is a ray of warm sunshine in a cold spell.

EC

I hope that Mr Huhne wields 'the sword of truth' to greater effect than others have done in the past.

Wilhelm 1

Ho Hum. Is this really an important story ? Will we be talking about this in 50 years time ? This is just idle gossip chit chat that the london metropolitan elite, cocktail party set love to babble about.

While the rest of the country is screwed up, hacked off and full of resentment over mass immigration.

Owen Morgan

"Ho Hum. Is this really an important story?"

Yes, as long as it leads to a significant change in the way British electricity is generated. If Huhne's successor does no more than follow his dismal example, then, yes, the story is still important, but with a less happy ending. If you are lucky enough to be still around in fifty years' time, you will know if the Huhne or the Anti-Huhne triumphed. (Clue: if you look at a tree and think of Good King Wenceslas, Huhne won.)

Frank P

Hampstead Owl

Hardboiled I would hope. And you underrate the pressure from said crew on the process.

Olaf

It's important because now there is a chance we can replace Huhne the fundamentalist, blinkered, rabid green with someone with a bit of bleedin common sense that might see that in the middle of a feckin depression(official or not) the country doesn't have the money to waste on strangling green taxes, and political pet projects for the purposes of MPs' willy waving at climate industry get togethers.

But a pretty fugging small chance no doubt.

Axstane

I was wrong and am I pleased!

We are well rid of this two-faced, smarmy, conniving and deceitful rat as is his wife.

Monotonous Perry or Heartless - do shut up for once and savour the moment.

mattghg

What a bizarre headline to the video. He's not resigning over 'speeding allegations', he's resigning over 'perverting the course of justice allegations'. If he'd just 'fessed up and taken the driving ban this would never have happened.

2trueblue

We can but hope that common sense will prevail in the energy area, but I doubt it. The dye has been cast and we are just blowing in the wind! If it were a commercial decision the company would have cone bust. Oh forgot, we are.

Patricia Shaw

Following their embarassing closure of their notorious Race Hate Site, the CoffeeHouse Wall, I wonder if Nelson and Hoskin will resign?

What was the reason Pee Diddy Hoskin? Another visit by the Police on charges of inciting racial hatred?

PayDirt

Stepping back from all the huha, this is really sad. When the Russians want to nail someone high profile they put in charges of tax evasion millions/billions, in GB for ever laacking in imagination it is enough to speed on the highway. Even the frogs can muster a sex set up for going after that ex-IMF fellow. I just hope the international news media does not make much of this, laughing stock of the world: British Minister resigns on account of speeding charges. Barmy.

Fergus Pickering

What on earth are feckin and fugging, Olaf? Please explain. I am always keen to improve my word power.

Torontory

The aspect that interests me most is that I cannot envisage any cicumstances in which Vicky P will plead anything other than guilty: lower penalty, too much evidence gainst her to do otherwise; emails to the Sunday Times, etc etc. At that point Huhne must be doomed and all his pleas of innocence fall apart. The final revenge.

AAE

Guido has posted the exchange of letters between Huhne and Cameron and don't they both slurp from the same trough. Huhne begins, not with Dear Prime Minister, but Dear David. He continues with a Party Political resume of the (perceived) achievements of the coalition. Dear David reciprocates in kind by writing Huhne an up to date CV, in the hagiographic style of contemporary public life of course. No where does one apologise for bringing shame and distraction to the government at a time of national crisis, and no where does the other mention that to, at best, hamper the police in their lawful enquiries not only shame their profession as lawmakers, but has in its selfish stupidity made the situation against himself much worse than it should have been and that display of arrogant narcissistic stupidity alone will preclude his return to Cabinet.
But will one windmill, there only to remind us all of being subject to mindless malicious Marxist will, remain unbuilt?

xenophon

Panic at The Telegraph as comments are closed on every related blog post; a touch anxious about contempt of court allegations?

AAE

xenophon, or perhaps some journalists and proprietors just don't want to have any embarrassments over dinner in the next few days.

Mirtha Tidville

Not much bothered about the outcome just glad this arrogant,overpreening incompetent has been kicked out..........Pat on the back indeed to Guido...job very well done..

Cynic

@2trueblue W"The dye has been cast" Ah, but what colour dye? Will it be green, yellow or pink? It almost certainly won't be blue, sadly.

mattghg

PayDirt, if you don't think that perverting the course of justice is worth resigning over then I despair for you.

Major Plonquer 1

This is not the end of the world for Chris Huhne. I mean, if he's eventually found guilty, all he has to do is find someone - preferably a woman - to do the time for him....

EC

Fraser Nelson,

Are we to take it that Mr. Rod Liddle will not be blogging about Mr. Huhne in the near future?

Baron

the curse of the AGW, sublime.