Somehow I think that Wynne's cheesecake would have been worse.
Say what you will about Doug, personally I think he's bowed down to the party and has become the kind of OPC leader who ensured McGuinty and Wynne (who no one liked in the slightest) 15 years worth of uncontested elections, which allowed them to fuck up the province.
Eves? Scum. Tory? Scum. Hudak? Scum.
Ford? Shock candidate espousing populism and running on his brother's legacy of good governance.
He bowed down to the party once in power though. Scum.
The next Ontario election won't be pretty. Who do you like more? Ford, DeLuca or Horwath? Which one of them do you think is most fit to lead Canada's economic engine?
Ontario politics suck. As is tradition.
The best case scenario is a PC MPP revolt against Ford, which is unlikely. They see the poll numbers being great for PC, many leftists like how Ford handled the virus. I would say vote for your local PC candidate and hope they can do something internally. Ford has made a bet, he is betting his voters who are largely old will back him for next election, and he hopes he picks up some old independents too. He knows young people barely vote provincially anyways. If he did the right thing, his poll numbers would probably be lower, because the media would have crucified him. Now he's done the wrong thing, destroyed the province in the process, trampled on our rights, all to get re-elected. I think in the end his bet will pay off because Canadians are pretty brainwashed. PC MPPs have no reason to mutiny against a guy that won them a majority and is on track to win again.
It's only unlikely because Ford dropped the grassroots populism shit that appealed to the OPC members and went with what the party brass prefers.
He's always been in danger of having his back stabbed by Elliott. That convention was supposed to be a crowning, and he disrupted a chance for the Harris legacy to enjoy 12 years of Jim Flaherty's wife in charge. It was her turn.
The great thing about being in a conservative party in Canada is that you can ignore your grassroots, more so than any other party.
The party brass though, that can't be ignored. He'll enjoy another 8 years of fucking up the province before another party comes along and fucks up the province.
It would actually be a good idea if another conservative party broke out in Ontario right now. There's time to build and the problem with big tent conservatism is that it creates a party that lacks ideological purity.
The thing about the left is that it keeps the true crazies off the liberal parties. The environmental extremists are associated with the Greens and the socialists are associated with the NDP. The conservatives have all of their extremists united, being loud and turning people off while cloaked in their banner.
The OPC is never going to change and being leader isn't enough to effect it. Their party brass is too established, their funding structure is too entrenched and Ford just does as he's told.
The bet is that there's more votes in the middle and that their voters won't vote for any other party; especially when the province is in serious financial trouble.
The only way to make them veer right is to make them steal votes from a party that's right of them, and there's only one way to do that.
It's a shit sandwich anyway you slice it.
Horwath is completely fucking insane, DeLuca is going back to the McGuinty/Wynne legacy and Ford has gone flying leftwards once in office.
The unique thing about Ontario, and Canadian politics in general is that nothing ever really changes no matter which party gets into office.
The only real difference is "which party's cronies will you be enriching this time around?"
I'll take Ford because he's nominally anti-greenie bullshit (and those fucking wind farms are a sin) but Ontario elections are never fun.
Somehow I think that Wynne's cheesecake would have been worse.
Say what you will about Doug, personally I think he's bowed down to the party and has become the kind of OPC leader who ensured McGuinty and Wynne (who no one liked in the slightest) 15 years worth of uncontested elections, which allowed them to fuck up the province.
Eves? Scum. Tory? Scum. Hudak? Scum.
Ford? Shock candidate espousing populism and running on his brother's legacy of good governance.
He bowed down to the party once in power though. Scum.
The next Ontario election won't be pretty. Who do you like more? Ford, DeLuca or Horwath? Which one of them do you think is most fit to lead Canada's economic engine?
Ontario politics suck. As is tradition.
The best case scenario is a PC MPP revolt against Ford, which is unlikely. They see the poll numbers being great for PC, many leftists like how Ford handled the virus. I would say vote for your local PC candidate and hope they can do something internally. Ford has made a bet, he is betting his voters who are largely old will back him for next election, and he hopes he picks up some old independents too. He knows young people barely vote provincially anyways. If he did the right thing, his poll numbers would probably be lower, because the media would have crucified him. Now he's done the wrong thing, destroyed the province in the process, trampled on our rights, all to get re-elected. I think in the end his bet will pay off because Canadians are pretty brainwashed. PC MPPs have no reason to mutiny against a guy that won them a majority and is on track to win again.
It's only unlikely because Ford dropped the grassroots populism shit that appealed to the OPC members and went with what the party brass prefers.
He's always been in danger of having his back stabbed by Elliott. That convention was supposed to be a crowning, and he disrupted a chance for the Harris legacy to enjoy 12 years of Jim Flaherty's wife in charge. It was her turn.
The great thing about being in a conservative party in Canada is that you can ignore your grassroots, more so than any other party.
The party brass though, that can't be ignored. He'll enjoy another 8 years of fucking up the province before another party comes along and fucks up the province.
It would actually be a good idea if another conservative party broke out in Ontario right now. There's time to build and the problem with big tent conservatism is that it creates a party that lacks ideological purity.
The thing about the left is that it keeps the true crazies off the liberal parties. The environmental extremists are associated with the Greens and the socialists are associated with the NDP. The conservatives have all of their extremists united, being loud and turning people off while cloaked in their banner.
The OPC is never going to change and being leader isn't enough to effect it. Their party brass is too established, their funding structure is too entrenched and Ford just does as he's told.
The bet is that there's more votes in the middle and that their voters won't vote for any other party; especially when the province is in serious financial trouble.
The only way to make them veer right is to make them steal votes from a party that's right of them, and there's only one way to do that.
It's a shit sandwich anyway you slice it.
Horwath is completely fucking insane, DeLuca is going back to the McGuinty/Wynne legacy and Ford has gone flying leftwards once in office.
The unique thing about Ontario, and Canadian politics in general is that nothing ever really changes no matter which party gets into office.
The only real difference is "which party's cronies will you be enriching this time around?"
I'll take Ford because he's nominally anti-greenie bullshit (and those fucking wind farms are a sin) but Ontario elections are never fun.