Let's ignore the point that the NDP have been considering a coalition with the Bloc -- there's little one can say about that.
What's more interesting is the staggering incompetence shown by talking about this on a conference call open to a Conservative (can't they get a secure conference line? or is the NDP caucus compromised? I have secured conference calls for Riding meetings!!!).
This is not the sort of thing to reflect well on the NDP -- the Bloc gets points for being pragmatic but who cares about that.
I have very dull criminal clients who are bright enough to know "what you say on a telephone you say to the world". Why would Layton crow over this stuff on a telephone line? (I mean really: "Let's just say we have strategies. This whole thing would not have happened if the moves hadn't been made with the Bloc a long time ago and locked them in early.").
Amateur hour in Ottawa -- I'm think if we had an NDP/Bloc alliance I'd pump for Gilles Duceppe as Prime Minister ... .
NDP, Bloc in coalition talks before fiscal update: tape
The New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois held talks to form a coalition party well before the opposition's uproar over the government's fiscal update, CTV News has learned.
NDP Leader Jack Layton was in talks with Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe for a "considerable period of time," reported CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife on Sunday.
Layton held a telephone-conference meeting with his caucus Saturday morning that was recorded by a Conservative member. According to the audio tape, Layton appears to take credit for the possibility of a coalition.
"Let's just say we have strategies. This whole thing would not have happened if the moves hadn't been made with the Bloc a long time ago and locked them in early," Layton says. "Because, you couldn't put three people together in one or three hours. The first part was done a long time ago."
Full story here: http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20081130%2fconservative_budget_081130
9 comments:
Taliban Jack? A big ego and mouth? Say it ain't so!
Morton,
You are just attacked the NDP because it has a real leader and not that wimp puppy Dion, traitor Rae or Fascist Iggnatief
So don't be coy. You are an Iggy boy???
Ignatieff would beat Harper in an election -- more to the point, as regarding Dipster (pleez chek youre speeling), Ignatieff is a genuine Liberal and liberal and a friend of freedom worldwide. And yes, I support Ignatieff.
"Crow" is a good word choice. I wrote a blog post yesterday and was searching for the right word for that kind of behaviour ("Gloat and it's back to square one").
I really like the idea of a coalition government, and my biggest fear right now is that someone will blow it by crowing or gloating in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thanks for your post.
I wouldn't guarantee that Ignatieff would beat Harper in an election. You have to remember that some of the punches the Liberals like to throw at Harper -- particularly, Iraq -- can just as easily be thrown at Ignatieff.
Even if we dismiss Harper's mea culpa on Iraq, then one supposes we would have to dismiss Ignatieff's as well.
What is much, much more interesting is this: precisely what the hell are the Conservatives doing tape-recording conference calls between other parties?
There's a good one.
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