Some of you may have seen the Dutch health minister collapse from exhaustion while speaking in the parliament the other day. He was later told, just like in the films, to go home and take some rest, but this is real life and he said he would resign as the country needed someone who was capable of doing this job and he didn't feel he was. What did the Dutch coalition cabinet do now that they had no health minister? They chose a politician from an opposition party, in this case the Labour Party who do not form part of the coalition. During a press conference the Dutch PM was being questioned on the usual, what did he think about what so and so said etc etc, when he turned round to a journalist and basically said, 'no, no, no, this is not a time for normal politics'. He is right it isn't and I hope to see more of this pragmatic attitude. There is no time for wind up or bullshit merchants right now. We really are all in this together.