Hunger Gamesmanship
I’ll leave the movie reviews to my betters, like Paul Wells.
I’ll only say this: saw it yesterday with Son 3. He loved it, I hated it.
It is basically a movie about children murdering children. That makes it despicable enough. But what makes it worse is that it pretends to disapprove of children murdering children – while simultaneously profiting from precisely that.
It is a disgrace. It will be a huge success.
In today’s Sun: Mulcair’s the wrong choice – but hat’s off to the NDP
Here’s the thing about the NDP.
They suddenly lost their charismatic, talented leader in the summer. They had an interim leader who used to be a card-carrying separatist.
They had a leadership race that was duller than dishwater. They have a caucus bursting at the seams with children, none of whom were expected to get their deposit back, let alone elected. They haven’t said or done anything of significance inside or outside the House of Commons since
May 2011. In fact, they have had a year that has been remarkably unremarkable.
But here’s the thing: As of this week, the pollsters at Environics tell us, they are tied for first place with the governing Conservative party. And their extraordinary victory in last May’s general election, which every pollster and pundit (including this one) regarded as temporary, an anomaly?
Well, it’s increasingly looking like it wasn’t temporary at all.
The NDP’s mistake
They got to where they are because of a guy who was populist and human and kind.
They’ve now elected a guy who is the polar opposite, on all fronts.
Good luck, New Democrats. You’ll need it.
(illustration by Joseph a.)