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Totally agree with you, I find Singh more conservative than NDP. On Twitter he pissed us off. He backed the conservatives and us I’m a provincial NDP voter but they lost me federally. Singh is a do nothing TikTok attention seeker. He’s no leader. And Hogan was a conservative first and couldn’t get voted in so he tried under NDP and got in. It’s like wtf are these NDPers doing? I didn’t like most of them. I agree shut up or get lost because Singh is not siding for democracy when he sides with the conservatives and acts like a conservative. I still find out who paid that federal debt of theirs, they still owe us money for years already. He has no connection with the provincial NDP. I’m pissed off at him for acting like a conservative F’er he’s losing voters like crazy

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*wanna find out

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In Ontario this happened a long time ago - Horwath's attacks on Wynne in 2014 ... it seemed to reverse a bit in 2018 but as you have eloquently and fiercely written in the past Horwath failed twice to win elections, especially 2018, that the NDP had an shot at winning a controlling minority government. Whether Ms. Stiles can reverse it remains to be seen. As you point out, even if the Federal NDP were willing to have a no holds barred convo on their leader and their policy direction, who the hell would take over? Charlie effin Angus? Perhaps someone new and under the radar. But the left wing base of the NDP still wants to believe they are actually Left Wing with a critique of capital C Capitalism, a critique more important than governing. Left Pragmatists are either muted within the NDP, unwelcome in the Green Party, or managing to deliver reform, while tolerating & NEGOTIATING with the Blue Business wing, in the Federal Liberal Party.

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Jan 19, 2023·edited Jan 19, 2023

Pragmatism rules all I suspect.

He could call for an election and he could be known as the guy who let Poilievre into power or the guy who lost the NDP one of it's most significant positions on changing policy that it has enjoyed in recent times.

I also wonder how the NDP finances stack up? Can they effectively run an election campaign so soon after 2021 and 2019?

I think Jagmeet Singh has all the political momentum of a Zamboni, no orange wave is coming under him. I suspect the NDP brass knows this to an extent.

Removing him as leader might be a bit more popular but then you get into the murky waters of finding a successor. Given the recent Ontario NDP leadership race ended up just being one candidate and so not a race at all, I'm not particularly optimistic.

Don't get me wrong, the NDP and left Canada politics in general is severely lacking in ideas, momentum or talented figureheads. A time will come for that glum collective stare down to happen. I just don't realistic think the NDP will volunteer to kick that off during a time where they have some hand to play in policy.

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Its really hard to take your position seriously when you simply throw in some form of "fuck" as a verb, adjective or adverb gratuitously; ya we get it, but serious political commentary should be written in serious form -- otherwise, one simply sounds like the unpleasant loud mouth seated at the next bar stool on a bad night. I am not offended nor unfamiliar with salty language but ..... really?

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You’re correct, but it’s hard to take emotional and caustic arguments seriously. It’s off-putting.

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You’re obviously right but you should not write in anger. You forget words, you misspell, etc. This looks like you didn’t even re-read. And btw, in Canada that piece of paper that has an amount of money written on it is spelled “cheque”.

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Oh don’t get me going on Sir Jagmeet TalkaLot .. I already ripped that retail membershit dilettante a new one this AM via Twitter. He resembles Poilievre Ultra Light Lickspittle.. zero alcohol. Oddly, it’s the NDP that manage to elect many ‘ReformaTory’s like Poilievre or Michelle Ferreri via Split Voting.. Will get back to ya later, thanks ! Timely Read to say the least

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