Scotland is free!

Apparently Baroness Scotland did not hire an illegal immigrant; she merely forgot to make a photocopy of the woman's papers and for this "administrative error" she has been fined a whopping £5.000, which of course she can afford to pay, having squirreled away £170,000 in dubious expense claims.
The spinners are at it again! The original crime was to hire an illegal immigrant, a practice that Baroness Scotland herself deplored and tabled legislation to punish the practice, but it now appears that this was not a problem. The real crime was the mistake of failing to take and keep photocopies of the immigrant's documents.
What is it about Gordon Brown that he fails to understand the situation. Baroness Scotland may well be  marvellous person with many good qualities, but she is Attorney General. She administers the law and must be seen to respect it. If she fiddles the law to suit her own personal circumstances she must go. And that't that!
Tony Blair sacked Mandleson the first time around because he had made a mis-statement on his mortgage application. It was not a particularly big deal and no doubt Mandleson, or one of his backers, was good for the money. But Blair made him go because of the propriety of it. Why can't Brown understand this?