The demise of David Blunket, now ex British Home Secretary, had all the appearance of a classic Parish's Law scandal - it didn't amount to much; had it been a tale of 10 mistresses he would not have been forced to resign.
Parish has a non-paranoid explanation for the odd 'meatless scandel implies resignation, meaty does not' phenomenon. This I have forgotten; nice if someone could remind me. I have a paranoid explanation:
If power wants rid of a politician it looks round for a scandal. Usually it won't be able to find much. But what it does find it presses and presses it in the media, untill the politician is finally forced to resign.
A meaty scandal is printed simply for its meatyness and there is no necessity for the politician to be forced to stand down.
Still, good ridance to Blunket.