Putting aside the unethical abuse of taxpayer funds and the Civil Service which is occurring in these Focus Groups for a minute, doesn't this blow the whole lid off the Social Agenda?
I mean, according to my attendee, the issue oriented questions were asking about what the participants thought the Government should do on specific portfolios.
Now we did hear in the Throne Speech that much of the Social Agenda was more studies, and there was lots of criticism of that, but weren't we also told about how ready to move on the major issues of the day the Government was? Shouldn't the Government - after 6 years in the drivers seat - be a little further on than this?
Seems that not surprisingly, the Social Agenda was nothing more than a hastily thrown together tagline, a substanceless ploy to buy time.
