Showing posts with label election 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label election 2011. Show all posts

What do these three pictures have in common?



Three election ads ... three different MPPs ... not one mention of their party. If you didn't already know, you might not know these MPPs are Liberals (okay, the red is a clue, but I've never seen election advertising without a party logo etc.)

Hmmm . . . scared of their own brand maybe? If the provincial Liberals were at all certain of their own record, the national party's crash in May

The most interesting thing to come out of this election?

You no longer need Quebec for a majority.Makes you wonder, now that Quebec has chosen the federalist, socialist option, instead of the separatist one, do the rest of us still wag?Don't get me wrong. I believe Quebec is a distinct society -- that's one of those truths that is self-evident. Its present colour compared to the rest of the nation is enough to prove its more European flavour. That said

Ignatieff: Allow me to slag them . . .

. . . whilst I make my graceful exit.No sour grapes for our humble prophet Michael Ignatieff. Naw, he's a loser, but not a sore loser:“This is a Prime Minister found in contempt of Parliament. This was a Prime Minister where the accumulations of what we believed to be abuses of power led to a point at which it seemed to me absolutely my responsibility as the leader of the opposition to stand

Finally -- Stephen Harper's REAL agenda

Paranoid anyone?Ignatieff thinks Stephen Harper's raison d'ĂȘtre is to *drive a stake through the heart of the Liberal Party*Ignatieff told supporters “Mr. Harper has no vision for Canada, but he has a very sharp vision for the Conservative party of Canada, which is to try to drive a stake through the heart of the Liberal Party.” Does that mean all those people who called him *Count Iggy* were

Another Tory endorsement

This time, from the Toronto Star.When The Star turns orange, there could be no better sign that the Conservatives are the best party to govern. The formerly scarlet paper has twisted crowbars into pretzels to sell the idea that smiling Jack deserves your vote.This is not a shock, but the truth is, I'm kinda disappointed. I thought that despite the crash and burn of the Liberal party, its very own