May is actively setting up Pedenault as a successor, he picked an impossible riding this time but he is going to impress people at the debate. It’ll be a slow process but I think it sets up the successful well
Now is not the time to vote Green either in close ridings. There is no plan to fight climate change with the Cons, they go in the opposite direction and we can not afford that. Carney will continue to fight climate change and his lovely wife is an anti-comsumerist.
Yup. My riding is a safe Liberal seat for a bench warming trained seal clapping conservative in Liberal garb, so my vote is going Green because the NDP abandoned this riding they once held. No ground game.
What happens next with the NDP after this election really depends on who follows up Singh. If it's someone as bad or worse somehow, then that could really be it for the NDP. They've had bad elections before, though, and bounced back, so I'm not writing them off yet.
The Greens at least have their ideals and stick by them and don't capitulate to others. They will be a good third option, as chaotic as their party is right now, given that they get more representation in HoC.
Yeah, and that's worrisome. I do wonder if that wasn't propaganda. My big worry with Green is non-whipped votes. I'd have to personally vet my candidate! Not happening. Doesn't matter, they have no hope in my riding. It splits NDP/Con.
/2 NEVER do any of the following: break up monopolies, stop privatising medicare, busting unions, work with Indigenous folks in a real way, actually make Canada stronger rather than ripping and shipping our resources and calling it good for us. It's fucking insane.
That's one take. Despite materially benefiting people's lives, people are ready to just chuck them for...the Greens? For the Liberals? Punishment for getting things done in a world of realpolitik. Yeah, we are dumb, and we are going to once again get stuck with a majority small c conservative that/1
Sure, it's mind-boggling how they can't find good people to sign up, suspend their lives and income (who can afford that?), spend a shit-ton of money, take a bunch of abuse, and have no chance of winning. Confusing.
Since Jack Layton passed it just feels like the NDP became the Party of Politicians who are close to getting their pensions and just put a leader in place who does the bare minimum to make the Party look serious but they are only there to get their pensions and leave.
The hard truth is the party is the way it is because of Jack. It was under him that they "professionalized" by centralizing control and angling for electability over grassroots
This. And it's the consultants and professionals who direct the campaigns and decide where money is spent that are much of the problem. People put a lot of blame on JS but I assume he's just doing what the party brass tells him to do.
100%. Just look at how his rhetoric changed the moment he won. He ran a relatively left leadership bid and then suddenly everything became means tested.
Changing leader won't help, the party needs a deep shakeup
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Since Jack Layton passed it just feels like the NDP became the Party of Politicians who are close to getting their pensions and just put a leader in place who does the bare minimum to make the Party look serious but they are only there to get their pensions and leave.
Changing leader won't help, the party needs a deep shakeup