As Matt Hancock finally resigned from his ludicrously untenable position today, he suggested that the government 'owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down.'
This begs the question, why the hell didn't he do the decent thing and shuffle off earlier?
Because the thing is, as grim as it is to see the Health Secretary breaking the very social distancing rules that he was enforcing at the time, this man should have left his job much earlier and over much more serious matters.
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That is not to trivialise this latest sordid episode.
The social distancing rules that Hancock broke, that he was the most ardent enforcer of, were rules we all felt we had to stick by.
They were rules that meant people couldn't hug their dying parents, grandparents couldn't embrace their new grandchildren, friends couldn't put their arms around the people they had most missed from their lives for the past year.
And not only did Mr Hancock breach these rules, he did it with someone he had personally hired - using public money - in a position that ironically was intended to scrutinise decision making of the Department of Health.
Now I may not be up to date with the latest lingo, but I don't think what those two were getting up to could be described as scrutinising.
But the wider point here is that this is a Health Secretary who has presided over a disastrous and deadly handling of a public health crisis and a man who should have been booted out of his post long ago.
This is a man who promised he'd 'put a protective ring' around this country's eldest and most vulnerable people, when we all know that under his management our care homes became a place where people were quite literally left to die.
I will never forget reporting on the horror of the situation in care homes in Liverpool in the early months of the pandemic.
I'll always remember the care home in Wavertree where 16 people died in a couple of weeks. I'll never forget the family I spoke to whose dad died in a care home after coronavirus patients were moved in without being tested.
It is right that Matt Hancock has resigned, but it is those deadly and horrific failures he should have gone for.
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But let's be honest, this should not end here.
Hancock's resignation should make those in senior positions in this government feel deeply uncomfortable.
We seem to have forgotten that the almost unbelievable incompetence of so-called Education Secretary Gavin Williamson put the futures of millions of young people in peril just last summer.
Those of us who have studied the form book of the former fireplace salesman will be putting good money on him making a total hash of things this summer as well.
And how could we forget the positively delightful Priti Patel?
You might not recall, such is the ridiculous news cycle of our times, that an inquiry last year found that the Home Secretary had broken the ministerial code with her bullying behaviour.
You may also have forgotten that the man who came to that conclusion - Sir Alex Allan - actually resigned his position, while Ms Patel retained the full confidence of the Prime Minister.
But you really shouldn't forget it, it is typical of the standards and behaviour of this most unscrupulous of governments.
It is more than correct that Matt Hancock has finally decided to resign, what is wrong it that more haven't followed him out of the door.
