[Xaccers]

Funnily enough, he's lost the party whip at Dave's request, and has been suspended from parliment for 10 days.
Not to mention he's actually appologised for any mistakes he made.

Stark contrast to more serious breaches of law from the government's ministers.

So he's been punished like this not for paying his son to do nothing, that's never been proven, so in this nation, if we uphold innocent until proven guilty, then we must take his word that his son did the work he was paid for, he's been punished for not keeping timesheets of his son's work.
Loss of party whip, 10 day suspension, chance of being speaker of the house gone, and having to pay £13,000.
Now, how long did it take Hain to leave? Was he suspended from parliment or lose the party whip? Nope, didn't think so.