A chief characteristic of globalization is time-space compression, one expression of which is a generalized CNN effect, namely the capacity of news media, nationally or internationally, to report in real time and pressure policy makers to make quick decisions in a particular direction. For political operatives, these are treacherous conditions, which require much anticipatory research and studied and cautious comments.
My cursory investigation of how we arrived at prorogation has shown deficiencies in all the above areas and suggests that in the future, our political actors need to be much more deliberative.
Firstly, though embedded in our constitution, both the proposed no-confidence motion and the prorogation response came as if out of the blue.
