Bitter party political animosity divides the nation and holds back united efforts to solve the multitude of problems which need our combined human resources. Continuing antagonisms continue to overwhelm hope of a new era of consultation, consensus and jointly approved programmes for progress.
Democracy ensures, or should ensure, that the differing views, varied cultural persuasions and diverging concepts of how the people’s affairs should be managed are allowed expression and not ever squeezed into resentful, and eventually festering, silence. But encouraging plural views to contend often makes day to day government a frustrating business. To those in