LETTER: Politics freezes over
President must go hard, directly, openly and swiftly for what he believes the country needs
09 September 2019 - 05:03
Some features of the British Brexit situation hold important lessons for SA.
The central problem in the House of Commons all the way through has been that it has only been possible to get majority votes on negatives — things most MPs don’t want to do. It has been impossible to get majority support on any positive step. This is a formula for freezing solid and wasting three years without progress, and no clear end in sight yet...
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