Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.
My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.
For me, opposition is just another opposition.
Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.
The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.
In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.
In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.