OPINION

Political hooliganism

We have become used to public discourse being coarsened. Similarly, we have become used to the vitriol flung by anonymous social media accounts. 

What we should never get used to however is seeing official party bodies sink down in a display of political hooliganism – worse still, when such an attitude is adopted by lawmakers in Parliament.

Tough confrontation is one thing. Degeneracy is quite another.

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