Peter Hain, who forgot about the small matter of a hundred thousand pounds, and whose political career expired horribly.

The chief defect of Peter Hain
Was trous’ring cash for his campaign
To fill John Prescott’s roomy shoes
As Labour’s hapless Number Two.

Donors (who must have been insane
To pay for Peter, not champagne)
Gave him thousands, and told him “These
Will help you, so declare them please.”

Alas, poor Hain: his omission
To tell th’ Electoral Commission
About a hundred thousand pounds
Did not impress boss Gordon Brown.

Cried Hain: “My friends, be warned by me,
That financial transparency
Was all that my career requir’d:
It had it not: so it expired.”