No, I'm saying that Gordon and his best mates are strongly associated with the Treasury and Hain, being outside that group and having just won a fight against them (and being guilty as hell, not that that usually makes a difference) is a useful scapegoat in the original sense of the Jewish ritual where a goat is shoved off into the wilderness to take away the sins of the entire community.
I always felt rather sorry for the goat. There's an excellent painting by William Holman Hunt:
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/o.../scapegoat.asp