As long as Aung San Suu Kyi remains in parliament, the argument goes, the authorities will have the figleaf they need.
While the Coalition party room has agreed on the wider policy to put to parliament, the argument outside the building is about its scope as government considers an ageing population.
If more reformists enter parliament, their argument goes, it will help Rouhani open up the economy to deliver urgently needed improvements for millions of ordinary Iranians – in terms of jobs, growth, housing and medical care, crucially demonstrating that ending Iran's isolation will make a real difference.
She also defended the last minority parliament against arguments it had been ineffective.
In 2012, a "Nutella amendment" that would have imposed a 300% tax on palm oil was defeated in parliament, despite arguments from some French senators that the ingredient was harming the environment and making children fat.
Obviously politics is difficult - that involved going to parliament, making an argument in a strong and principled way but then listening to parliament.
A bigger problem is that other budgetary hawks, such as Germany and Sweden, feel betrayed, since reopening the rules may let the European Parliament restart its argument that the budget should be much bigger.The affair sums up much of what is wrong with British EU diplomacy.
We should pay close attention to what the government is doing to universal credit because the reality is that if it succeeds in its plan to complete the rollout by the end of this parliament, all these arguments we've been having about tax credits will end up being completely irrelevant.
More voters think that big policy decisions should be determined by referendum than by parliamentary debate.Ironically, Parliament's best counter-argument may rest in select committees, which have in recent months held police chiefs, press barons and ministers to squirming account.
Naoroji believed in British "fair play" and justice and hoped to achieve progress by rational argument in parliament.
