grte to Canada · 11 months agoEd Broadbent, the Best Prime Minister We Never Had | The Tyeethetyee.caexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down12
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minus-squareAvid Amoebalinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoThis might have actually been true at the time. Not sure if it’s still true today. Someone with plausible labor credentials replacing Jagmeet might be what’s needed.
minus-squaregirlfreddy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·11 months agoJack Layton moved the NDP to centre-left, to be more palatable to centrist voters. Singh hasn’t done anything to change that, as the old-guard running the party isn’t interested in moving back to the left.
minus-squarefolkrav@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·11 months agoNDP is IMHO basically social liberal at this point, and I can’t in good faith call anything liberalism a left-wing ideology.
This might have actually been true at the time. Not sure if it’s still true today. Someone with plausible labor credentials replacing Jagmeet might be what’s needed.
Jack Layton moved the NDP to centre-left, to be more palatable to centrist voters.
Singh hasn’t done anything to change that, as the old-guard running the party isn’t interested in moving back to the left.
NDP is IMHO basically social liberal at this point, and I can’t in good faith call anything liberalism a left-wing ideology.