You missed a stage, so I've added it for you.
I expect an avalanche of stories in the coming days - unless there's some sort of deal made for him to go 'quietly', but they will still want to drop a reasonable amount of sh|t in his lap before he goes.
The 'system' used to be that politicians would fall on their sword if caught doing something improper, or they would be sacked. Or if there's nobody above them, their party would remove them. As much as there would have been improper things going on, there was at least a greater sense of...