UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Bristol, December 2019. Photo from Flickr. There’s been a vast amount of foolishness in the discussion of this. Labour lost for two main reasons: Their base was split by Brexit, and in a real way, no “positioning” could avoid this. There was a
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Peace, order and good government, eh?: The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do. Grow the economy sustainably, help the downtrodden,
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Liberals win and Horwath proves she needs to go
At the end of the day, the NDP did not want to win. If they had wanted to win they would have promised a referendum on repealing the HST.
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