NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo spells out her party’s identity crisis. ⇒
1 December 2015, early morning
For the second time in two years, Cheri DiNovo has some tough words for members of her own political family. The NDP MPP for Parkdale-High Park says the federal New Democrats’ setback in the October election is a sign the party is losing its way. DiNovo thinks party officials aren’t owning up to their failures, so she’s breaking the silence herself, as she did after her own provincial New Democrats faltered in Ontario’s 2014 campaign.
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I’d be a lot more comfortable with the “NDP has lost its way” meme if its proponents were owning the fact that the NDP would have done worse, not better, if it had run on a more explicitly socialist platform. You can argue that the party has moved to the centre (I haven’t heard the facts backing up that argument yet, and I don’t know what opposing C-51, opposing TPP, and opposing pipelines is, I guess) and you can argue that the party could have run a more successful campaign (they could have been wishy washy on anti-Muslim racism), but you can’t slap the two together. If you really think the NDP isn’t socialist enough, then that should be enough for you. You shouldn’t need to pretend that that’s why the lost the election.
by Sam on December 1 2015, 12:21 pm #