Is Opposition shooting itself in the foot?

I would have missed the President’s ‘State of the Nation’ address from Parliament last week, but for the whistling. Two reasons informed this; having listened to the previous two speeches, I had an inkling the third would be an encore. Secondly, I had an office deadline to beat.

When the whistling started, the first unconscious thought I had was of football hooligans, but in the millisecond it takes to mentally file away information, the mind rejected that line of thought; there is no pitch in the vicinity.