On the face of it there is no reason why government ministers should not disagree and even row. When it becomes public because of covert briefings and midnight phone calls, the media goes into hyper drive. In Twitter speak every piffling detail of who said what to whom, on whose authority and with what intention, becomes a series of trending issues. Rising stars are dimmed and the careers of young advisers lose a wheel. But and this is the big BUT, does it grip anybody outside politics and the media and does the public care?
No.
Because in real lives with issues about jobs and childcare and house prices and debt and health and kids’ homework and in-laws, there just is not time to fool about like this. There are real things to get stuck into which cannot wait and which have real impact on the here and now.
So there are in government. This Blog has argued before, that fixed term Parliaments do not suit the flexible vagaries of our unwritten Constitution and that five years is too long. The absurd exhibition of bad behaviour which now grips the Westminster village is clear evidence that this Blog is right. The people who pay for all this by their toil and tax have to suffer another eleven months of electioneering, with little useful being achieved for their benefit by the spoiled children who rule them. The really depressing thing is that there is little to suggest that those who hope to replace them next May are any better.