In the UK there is a very interesting concept called the shadow cabinet... that dominated the news the first time I landed up here... the Labour party was selecting the shadow cabinet... at first I wondered why would the labour party need a cabinet at all? shadow or otherwise....but the word shadow did suggest that there was more to it....

so shadow cabinet dear readers is the cabinet that the opposition party creates to counter the actual cabinet of the ruling party... so for every chancellor of the exchequer there was shadow chancellor of the exchequer.... so on and so forth...

Very interesting concept... though I doubt that adds more value to reasoned political behaviour....