All decisions are difficult on their day. What to wear, what to have for supper ...
The whole point of having power is to be the one who makes the decisions. But it is also your responsibility as a politician to persuade us, to offer reassurance to those who may have doubts about your rightness, that you have given proper consideration to all the arguments then used your wisdom & experience to come to the best decision. That way the people will feel they are in safe hands. They might even feel good about the decision
Dont just tell them, irritably: Look. It was. A difficult decision. I made it. (And Im a good guy I am). So. Will you all now. Just. Please. Shut up. And. Move on
Todays Victorian Quotation
Pray do not go & hang people right & left to please The Times
Advice from Sir John Mellor QC to Baron Bramwell 1856
