A Flawed System

Monday, June 04, 2018

Just imagine. There must have been many people there who had never previously attended a Presidential press conference. They would have had little idea what to expect. Older hands might have remembered 10 years back that they believed that a new dawn was breaking. It never did of course.

This time around they might have been more sceptical. That said, it did seem that those present were encouraged by what they heard.

The days of the selfie are over, as with approved irregularity and the bypassing of established systems. There is to be proper accounting, transparency, commitment; all the key words but the impression given was that they were genuinely meant. But then came the Salbany affair.

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