It is not very useful to accuse someone of doing nothing without suggesting what can be done. Therefore, this week I wish to suggest to Prime Minister Samuel Hinds a way out of what he presented as his major concern about executive shared governance. He claimed that “shared government (at this time) would only transfer the dissension and contentions in Parliament into the Cabinet room. The government could be paralysed.” But let me begin by saying that this statement is founded in a major misconception of what precisely is taking place in Parliament. As an example, let us consider the dissensions and contentions that occurred during the recent budget process.
It does not take much to recognise that the quarrel over the actual budget cuts was the occasion and not the cause of the budget
