Parliamentary stagnation: System is a threat to its own future

To paraphrase Edmund Burke’s timeless warning — the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing — is probably so well-thumbed that its wake-up-and-smell-the-failure pungency has faded.

Despite its the-boy-who-cried-wolf-too-often familiarity its central truth, its sharpness remains as relevant as ever it was. Maybe even more so in today’s darkening world.