CRISIS VERDICT: PUNCH-DRUNK GOVERNMENT IS CLOSER TO THE EDGE THAN WE THINK

The general consensus when it comes to ‘new politics’ is that it has evolved into a phoney war where nothing really ever happens.

In fact, this has been a time of huge subterranean turbulence that surfaces in occasional violent convulsions.

To date this curious coalition has been resilient enough to survive.

But is the capacity of an increasingly punchdrunk administration to take the blows starting to break down?