the Walnut Diary

The buzz has hit the papers this morning.  Turns out Quebec voters would flock to the NDP if they believed Layton had a chance to become PM.  The Liberals are dying under Ignatieff’s seat-filling leadership.

Maybe Layton as PM wouldn’t be so bad. What’s he going to do? Spend billions on vanity projects? Nationalize a major industry? Sell off Atomic Energy? Tax everything?

Wait! Harper’s already done these things with the H.S.T., the bailouts last summer, Olympics and Summit spending and the new omnibus budget.

So what’s the difference? Layton wants a balanced approach to foreign relations and Harper’s a Zionist all the way. Take a breath, Canada! This guy might be a pretty good deal.

The political spectrum has long since gone the way of the dodo, and with it any valid measure of ideological space between parties.

Far-right Harper blows billions on centre-left stimulus funding because that’s what it takes to remain in power.

If an NDP candidate were threatened by a voting block of anti-abortion crusaders, that candidate would likely vote against abortion to preserve his or her seat.

If we agree it’s about power and little else, then it comes down to choosing up teams.  At the moment the Right has combined two teams and so is winning against the other, fragmented squads.  This can change if the two most likely Left teams join forces.

Who cares if they call the new Left squad the Newer Liberal-Democratic Coalition?  As long as it gets rid of Harper’s gang, I’m for it.  Jack Layton might make a very good prime minister. Few others are lining up for the job. Remember what Lenin said, “I saw power lying in the street, and I picked it up.”

I was raised a fifth-generation Tory, but I wish him well.