Yes, but consider how doomed you are if you need to treat your parliamentarians like irresponsible children to keep them on task. But I think there's probably

Yes, but consider how doomed you are if you need to treat your parliamentarians like irresponsible children to keep them on task. But I think there's probably a more charitable explanation that everyone is too polite to say: large chunks of the business being conducted may in fact be bullshit, and deep down they know it.