As an NDP supporter I could get behind this.
There is talk flying around the web right now suggesting NDP Leader Jack Layton has made a deal with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The rumour goes that Layton will support Harper against any moves to topple his government in exchange for a referendum on Proportional Representation, which would lead to more NDP seats in the house.
The question that has frequently come up today with regard to such a deal is why would conservatives get behind it. The answer is simple. Harper’s coalition of reformers and red tories is fracturing once again. Proportional representation would allow these two factions to separate and pursue their own agendas without losing a disproportionate number of seats like they would under the current first past the post system. The right half of the political spectrum would essentially then have the same dynamic as the left with the red tories battling the liberals in the centre while the reformers pulled to the right in the same way the new democrats now pull to the left. Without the reformer baggage the red tories would then have a far greater chance of pulling support over to them from the liberals.
More from Robert Silver who thinks it’s a smart issue for Layton and the NDP to push right now.
Oh, c’mon, Rob. The “talk flying around the web” serving as the basis for this speculation is a result of your own unsourced rumour floated at BigCityLib’s.
Nice one, though.
“I called up Karl Belanger, Layton’s press secretary, and asked him if there was any truth to it He gave me a flat out: NO. It’s all speculation, rumour, bloggers dumping falsehoods and rubbish into the electronic ether. ”
Tsk, tsk, Robert. Just cause you wish it, doesn’t make it true.
So what. Had Silver or Zimonjic talked to me directly I would most likely have been quoted as an anonymous dipper and it would then be considered sourced.
If Silver or Zimonjic had called you, they would have asked what *your* source is for this speculation.
Do you have one?
Yes. Otherwise I wouldn’t have said I heard it.
Moonbat Jan doesn’t count as a source.
lol, thanks Ti. I needed that. Care to share your source Robert or are we going to chalk it up to “senior level party members” and other such bull shit titles for people who know not of what they speak?
Ti Guy, Can’t you stop yourself from being an asshole for even a single thread?
What’s Jan got to do with this?
You and your adolescent snarks and smears are so last year…and the year before that…and the year be…
You and your adolescent snarks and smears are so last year…and the year before that…and the year be…
Oh, lighten up, you old bitch.
Not a chance in hell of that happenin’