Giving a Suggestion is Not Proposing a Policy. Governance is not a game of who-said-what-first.
There’s a growing tendency by some to conflate making suggestions with actual policy-making — and I find this both misleading and unfair. Take the Workers’ Party, for instance. A common refrain from them is that the Government often “adopts their proposals in some form.” But when one takes a closer look, many of these so-called […]