The "junior official" who is at present carrying the can for the Discgate affair has resigned, no doubt under pressure from management. I wonder how this will affect his chances of redress and compensation via an employment tribunal if the blame is later found to lie elsewhere. I also wonder what the union rep was doing while all this was going on. Probably engaged in a damage limitation exercise on behalf of the Labour government.
It is now evident that this individual should not have had access to the data he was handling. So he was doing the work of some lazy bastard higher up the totem pole. 'Twas ever thus in the British workplace; the work and the blame travels down the chain of command, while the perquisites and the praise travel up. "The buck stops here." Bullshit!