I found it particularly odd, however, that anyone would have found it necessary to formalize such an understanding - it having been my belief that all the elements which make up a government automatically work together as one whole.
Even allowing for personal antagonisms which can sometimes affect these relations, and for changes of style and procedure - vision statements, for instance, were an unknown until fairly recently - it still seems to me to be very strange that the signing of such a memorandum was felt to be either necessary or to represent a specific advantage. But if it does, we should be prepared for a slew of similar initiatives with the police being the next in line signing memoranda with all the District Councils, then the Councils with the Land Boards, and then the DIS with, I am not sure, absolutely everyone, I suppose. I am also not too sure about the huge Office of the President which would probably feel under no obligation to sign with anyone. If this memorandum idea really caught on, however - which I can well see it doing - it could spread way beyond the government with all sorts and sizes getting carried away, feverishly determined to sign on the line, husbands with wives, neighbours, former enemies, baruti with their congregations, super markets with their customers, even MPs and their constituents - confirming in writing a new found commitment to shared ideals, reciprocal obligations and a joint determination to work for the common good. We will see. But one thing is for certain.
