"Senior insiders with the federal Liberals and New Democrats have been holding secret talks about the possibility of merging their parties to form a new entity to take on the Harper Conservatives, CBC News has learned."
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Liberal, NDP insiders talk merger
I respect the NDP but it is not my Party and there is a significant gulf between the NDP and the Liberals. Indeed, I would not believe this report except that Warren Kinsella is a very credible source and if he says it's true, well, it's true:
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Oh Gawd!
Is it just me (and I guess some con pundits) or am I the only one who has concerns about what this coalition does to "blue grit" MPs? No concerns about how many would cross the floor to Conservatives, thus giving Harper more seats; easy seats that bring him closer to that majority?
What about blue grit voters? Won't they park their vote with the conservatives?
No wonder NDP doesn't say much; all this coalition chatter will help their polling numbers no doubt.
Bob Fife and Dimitri Pantazopoulos also mused that left voters who vote liberal simply because they knew NDP would never govern, would now be lulled into that false sense of security voting for NDP, thinking there will be this marvelous coalition that will save the day.
Conservatives and their cheerleaders are already having a field day with this..
If true.. kinda early to be fretting. Everyone would need to see what the official policies of theoretical new Liberal Democrats Party would be, and so on.
Blue grits are like blue dog democrats. When was the last time a blue grit spoke at a fundraiser for Dryden, Minna, or Kennedy or Fry or Rae? I am betting never.
Yes a new party would lose a few blue grits but then how many more seats would be won if the NDP and Liberals had just one candidate in a riding. I can see lots of con seats going to a new party.
Aha! who would be the leader of this new party? et they have not thought of this
Cari:
The leader selection would be discussed on how to elect/choose the hypothetical leader of said hypothetical merged party (if it ever came to pass) during the hypothetical talks.
Honestly, I'll go with anything that gets Stephen Harper out of the way at this point. If the LPC gets rid of its conservative branch at the same time, it's hard for me to see that as anything other than an added bonus.
A credible source?
ell, it would be a way for Ignatieff to leave gracefully, and polls suggest a Jack Layton led merged party would be formidable at the polls.
Why have discussions about how the new leader should be elected? Ignatieff knows he can't win a leadership race so he'll do everything to subvert the process and anoint himself leader. That's how he does things.
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