Excellent analysis from a guy who has been there. From a Canada point of view, though, must the current governing party's cabinet seem so unrelentingly sycophantic? I get the distinct impression that without the current PM [who I most assuredly do not either like or respect] and who should be simply a first among [presumably] equals they would, to a person, be all at sea. The cult of personality we currently exist under is not serving us well.