Question: When is a split not a split?

Answer: When it's a Labour debate.

Can you imagine the furore on the BBC if George Osborne and David Cameron or Ken Clarke put a slightly difference of emphasis on taxation or public spending? There would be, indeed in the past there have been, strong interviews on the Today programme , detailed analysis on the web and maybe even Michael Crick waving his microphone in front of their faces demanding 'answers'. Today there seems to be a guge difference in approach between Alistair Darling and Liam Byrne and that is seen only as worthy of a short comment in the newspaper review.

It would seem that in the BBC, any Tory policy disagreements are vitally important and show a deeply divided party, whilst Labour policy disagreements are merely a matter to note and move on from.

The BBC's cheerleading and setting 'the narrative' for Labour is increasing in intensity and the Conservative leadership seem powerless to say or do anything to stop them. Either David Cameron and his team get off their arses and do something or we will face a re-elected Gordon Brown.