I took the second point to mean, “You do not want to put your political reputation and stabding on the line to take control of a difficult decision where there is not an obvious right choice and you are not the expert and even the right choice will make a lot of people unhappy.”
I took the second point to mean, “You do not want to put your political reputation and stabding on the line to take control of a difficult decision where there is not an obvious right choice and you are not the expert and even the right choice will make a lot of people unhappy.”