Could one be forgiven for wondering if the reason Iain Lees-Galloway didn’t read the Sroubek file was because he had his eye elsewhere? And we now know where. 

Could we also ask whether the Prime Minister would have sacked him so quickly, If at all, if she hadn't had a masterclass in decisiveness from Judith Collins earlier in the week? It must have been a shock to actually sack someone, as opposed to pretending nothing was wrong, or hiring yet another QC for a review.

But in a way only she could, she only sacked him as a Minister. She was leaving it to Lees-Galloway to work out whether he wanted to stay an MP. And even he could see the writing on the wall, like Clare Curran and David Clark before him. The strange habit of sacking yourself has become a "thing” with this government, hasn’t it?

So assuming this is it, can there really be anymore?

We can also make several observations. One, politics is a mugs' game. Two, as a result of it being a mugs' game, those who do want it tend to be disproportionately frail in a variety of areas. Three, it shows no signs of changing.

That is the tragedy, because we have created this absurd anomaly where by we ask so much of these people, but we ask that of them but not ourselves. Given we must never forget they are supposedly representatives of us, they are our democratic extensions, and we are as frail as they are.

There are the brilliant and the bizarre in any community. Why did we decide that once they stand for office and go to Wellington they must take on some shield of invincibility and perfection? We've done it with sportspeople. Somehow having hand-eye coordination and the ability to kick a ball also means you have to be saint like and one step short of beatification.

If you sell yourself as virtuous or above reproach, and fall, fair enough. We all remember Graham Capill.

But if you're just the person who wanted to take your community's voice to the capital but end up taping your secretary, or leaking secrets, or even getting your leg over, it's not turned out all that well, but it's hardly breaking ground that, that very community hasn’t seen many a time before.

It doesn’t make it right. But it makes it more common than we'd like to think. But somehow because we've created this fallacy around MPs, the reason they’ve dropped like flies is because we wanted them to be more than they ever really were.