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Political 'oneupmanship' between parties

supremenovice · 2011-02-19 23:28:03

Ive been hearing a lot of complaints in media throughout the campaign about the ongoing tit-for-tat between parties and that they need to stop it and get on with leading the country. Im not sure what these moaners want exactly. Merge all parties into one and have a national government? Arent they supposed to put their…

19-02-2011 11:28pm

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Ive been hearing a lot of complaints in media throughout the campaign about the ongoing tit-for-tat between parties and that they need to stop it and get on with leading the country.
Im not sure what these moaners want exactly. Merge all parties into one and have a national government? Arent they supposed to put their policies forward on how best to lead the country and then find holes in eachothers to try win the electorate over? Isnt an opposition to the government necessary to keep them accountable?
Political parties at war with eachother is par for the course surely.

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