1.  Between elections, a government with a sufficient parliamentary majority obedient to its will is absolute and omnipotent.

2.  Labour increased its parliamentary majority.

3.  Ministers could expect to have a parliamentary majority whatever they did.

4.  Was it because its parliamentary majority prevented any real possibility of its position being threatened?

5.  Will Barak be able to go on ignoring the contradictions of his parliamentary majority for much longer?

6.  Yet there was always an element of complacency about an administration which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority.

7.  The DYP needed, however, a three-fifths parliamentary majority in order for such changes to be made.