Singh has to go if the NDP ever wants to have even a shred of hope of being competitive in the polls again.
I don’t even think he’s a bad politician per se, but it’s obvious he is not resonating with Canadians and hasn’t for years.
Yep. And sadly, there’s also the fact that even amongst progressives, there’s still a number of Canadians who won’t yet accept a PM who wears a turban.
That is the unfortunate reality of it.
I have no problems with the guy. He strong armed the liberals in to getting us Pharma and Dental care, which is the biggest thing any political party has done for us in fucking decades.
Yet I keep seeing stuff saying the NDP is losing support. Why? Well, it’s not because they aren’t doing enough.
Doesn’t help that they haven’t stood with labour groups enough that the Conservative party has had chances the past couple years to become “the labour party” with Unifor getting behind them recently. It was already sort of going that way with people in the trades generally leaning right on a lot of newer issues that are becoming the focus of the NDP.
I’m ok with this. I’ve voted NDP every election except for one, to remove Harper and get proportional representation. I’ve been very worried about vote splitting letting PP win so this feels to me like his way of broadcasting that it’s ok to vote liberal if that’s what we need to do. I’m lucky that I’m in a fairly secure NDP riding, but I will be voting strategically if needed. I think Carney will do a good job, and the NDP can be the push from the left to influence him, and honestly that’s not a bad place to be in. These are weird and uncertain times, we need a major trouncing of the cons, however that looks. Very much like when I voted liberal the last time, only way more extreme! He sees the writing on the wall and I just hope they retain enough seats to make a difference.
I just hope that the NDP actually starts feeling like a leftist party after this. Lately, it feels like the NDP’s been even more right wing than the centralist Liberals. Aside from the occasional policy, most of the NDP’s talking points feel either centralist or right wing than anything.
What’s the point in having two centralist parties and an extreme right party? NDP was doing its best being the hard leftist party to balance things out, and started its collapse when they tried to out Liberal the Liberals. Of course that wouldn’t work.
Hopefully this will have the NDP closely look at what it’s doing and find a new voice that resonates to those unsatisfied with what the Liberals and Conservatives stand for, rather than trying to appeal to hardcore Liberal and Conservative followers.
Be the third way, not an alternate second way.
Absolutely agree! I very much hope for the same with the democrats down south, but I am not getting my hopes up at all on that count. Up here I see a batter path for that.
And hopefully more leftist than the O’Toole conservatives.
People said it wouldn’t make a difference or that his other policies would be worse overall but at least worker board membership was on the table:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tuesday-conservative-election-workers-1.6150615
I’d much prefer those board seats for workers existed because they owned a substantial part of the company but it’s better than nothing.
Well said.
On Friday in Montreal, he dismissed polling aggregators, in one of his sharpest rebukes of the modelling.
“These aggregators were massively wrong," Singh said about poll modelling in the past, though he didn’t provide examples. "So I’m not worried about what aggregators say.
Oh no.
I’ve spent the last 15 years of my life on statistics and math, so I’m biased, but that’s not a good take.
Good. This whole “I’m running for Prime Minister” thing is as ridiculous as it is inaccurate. Singh, May, Carney, and Poillievre can’t “run for PM”, and acting like our political system mirrors that of the US perpetuates public ignorance about the parliamentary system.
I don’t really agree with this. While technically true, the reality of our system is that almost all votes are whipped so your local representative is going to be rubber stamping a party line 99% of the time. What’s more, in my opinion that’s a good thing. I live in a small town with a depressing local news situation and finding out what candidates in municipal elections even stand for can be a PITA. Much better to be able to look at a party platform and know that should the rep I want win they will be going along with that platform. Individual personalities are less important than policy positions, anyways.
As much as I agree that one doesn’t “run for Prime Minister,” and I wish everyone would stop using that phrasing…the party sure as shit should be running to form government.
And with that, I think Singh’s goose is officially cooked.
You don’t run an election campaign on supporting another party. You run it on the assertion that you deserve to win.
Normally I’d agree with that, but this is not a normal election
