(Lack of) Hunger (for power)

Interesting that Chris Huhne has admitted that he did pervert the course of justice ten years ago by getting his wife to accept points on her licence when it was he at the helm of the speeding car.  Incredible that he will probably go to jail for such a trifle - it's not like he covered up a murder or provided a false alibi for an armed robbery.  His ex-wife still clings to her innocence and so, unless there was deployment of considerable sophistry (or they didn't take the stand), they have committed perjury as well, but it wasn't Vicky Pryce who spitefully shopped her husband only to get caught herself, though malice was afoot.  In a case of loose lips sink ships (and political careers), she carelessly blabbed this to a magazine in the wake of her divorce from Mr Huhne.  A Labour MP, Simon Danczuk, saw this and the tribal urge to destroy a political rival reared its ugly head and Danczuk reported this to the police who had been unaware.  This is revenge for the immolation of the career of former Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas, by his Liberal Democrat opponent  (Mr Woolas was found to have broken electoral law with racial populism and lies and was forced out of his seat of Oldham East and Saddleworth and forbidden for standing for election again for three years).  Today, after excusing himself saying Huhne tried to engineer a cover-up (though it's hardly Watergate), Danczuk shed crocodile tears, stating, " I do have some sympathy for Chris Huhne in that I wouldn’t have wished his political career to be ruined in this way.”  Yeah, right.
I used to read Huhne's articles in the Evening Standard under the stewardship of Max Hastings (when there was a distinct plurality of opinion which Alexander Lebedev has partially restored).  They appeared in the economics section and were the only thing I found interesting in that part of the paper.  He proved just as personable in front of TV cameras.  And, unofficially (no, this is not a cover-up, Danczuk, it's just that I'm not a registered Liberal Democrat), I would have liked him to become leader of his party (phew, dodged that bullet).  Nick Clegg may be rubbing his hands in glee now that a peer competitor has bit the dust, but that is just like a later member of the Palaeologi delighted that a contending claimant for the Eastern Roman throne has been annihilated, even when political power doesn't extend much beyond the throneroom.  Moreover, it clears the way for Vince Cable to amass discontents solely behind him in a run for the leadership (probably a bid half a year before the general election).
But if Chris Huhne had any love for his party, seen the film Hunger or both, he would have not resigned his seat.  Resign his membership of the party by all means (for he would have been ejected if he had not), but not his representation of Eastleigh.  Just a cursory knowledge of Northern Ireland's recent history would tell him that convicts can be MPs, witness one Bobby Sands.  Resigning his seat means a by-election the Lib Dems will most likely lose.  He could have held on to it as an independent MP (until 2015) and vote in alignment with his former Lib Dem colleagues when Lib Dem policy is on the table, while allowing a Lib Dem candidate to stand against him at the next general election .  Another mistake.  And his leadership campaign had the gall to call the now Deputy Prime Minister 'Calamity Clegg'.  Horrendous Huhne has just as much salience.  Incidentally, was that anonymous 'overzealous researcher' who came up with the aphorism, Huhne's current partner by any chance, given that she met him via his campaign team?