The political parties in and out of government have been able to avoid sanctions for such cheap politics which impacts negatively on what the majority perceives to be the national interest, because they are given the cover of blind party, ethnic and religious loyalties and so are assured that their support bases will hold firm. Until the electorate wakes up to the reality and initiates a process of political maturity in which issues and political integrity become the basis for making judgments about parties/governments and their leaders, the duplicity experienced in the Bail and Hanging Bills will continue. It must be that opposition and governing parties must be made to pay a heavy political price for there to be a change in the political culture; the parties will not do it themselves. It is on matters such as these that the curse of unquestioning party loyalty, the dependence on race, geography and religion as the markers of political support becomes most apparent.