The party leader is caught between the visceral, untamed ambition of his deputy and the resurrected ghost of the party leader past. But he should not be spooked.

Mr. Elrington’s remark that there is no money for judicial travel is hypocritical. Ministers as well as bureaucrats travel a great deal more than judges do. The travel expense of a single government department is greater than that of the judiciary as the third branch of the state.

Taxpayers money used to maintain non-functioning municipal bureaucracies could be directly applied to the upkeep of infrastructure if city councils and town councils were abolished and replaced with a handful of appointed, skilled city and town administrators.