Goodbye energy policy, agriculture, and taxation – hello gender-neutral bathrooms.
37 Replies to “Oh, Shiny Pony!”
Too funny! Go Justin Go!
Don’t forget the lesbian-only bike lanes!
So…no policy yet…
Waiting for survey results…
And survey/polls are always accurate, right?
Have at ‘er SDA gang!!
So many incentives to make you want to join the Shiny Pony Club, formerly known as the Liberal Party of Canada.
didn’t see gypsy on that list, bunch of bigots
Canadian Marijuana Pipeline,
some good shit.
Vote For Justin !
Well, if it is, in fact, gender-neutral washrooms, that would be provincial, actually, for the overwhelming proportion of public washrooms extant or likely to be built any time soon.
What exactly would a federal political party have to say about LGBT “issues”, anyway? Marriage and federal entitlement law has already been changed, many years ago now, in fact. And equality rights are guaranteed at section 15 (1) of the Charter.
Aside from the headline misnomer (“issues”, which should really be more like “policy categories”, based on the items listed), every once in a while with this crowd you get a whiff of the old PET gunslinger poseurism. They just can’t help themselves, apparently.
I mean really, just like gender-neutral washrooms, health and education policy are overwhelmingly provincial responsibilities. What? We’re going to go back to the days of confrontational grandstanding by First Ministers at televised conferences called to discuss national standards in social programs in exchange for cost-sharing, which the federal government was destined never to be able to live up to in the first place?
And, in the same vein, the list exudes the odour of Trudeaupian identity/special interest group politics. At least seven of the eighteen categories, by my read, can be so characterized: channeling Kate’s remark, “Economy” is one category, whereas “Arts and Culture”, “Status of Women”, “Youth”, “Aboriginal”, etc. are all separate. Really?
Leaving aside the goofy behaviour and the goofy statements, the part that I find so underwhelming about this guy is that he’s an anarchronism on auto-pilot. Without even the slightest indication that he’s even thought about it, he’s carrying on in a manner that has been long-dead, even within the Liberal Party.
David, I think you’ve hit on something important here. This reads like a shopping list of favourite Liberal causes rather than being a list of specific issues of the day or the decade. It seems more like deliberately trolling for people who are activists within specific areas of interest.
Now the Liberals don’t have much in the way of organizational strength any more, and they’ve been outgunned massively on grassroots worker and contributor support for many years. Election financing laws have eliminated their traditional base of support of several dozen huge corporate donations. Could this be an attempt by the Shiny Pony Club (love that phrase) to rebuild their local network of workers and supporters?
Think about it for a minute. The Libs have been getting their lights punched out in recent years among the various ethnic minorities. Gone are the days when they could go to a few big leaders within these communities and they would round up the vote for them. And every single federal election within the past 10 years has seen the Liberal vote count an percentage go down. It’s been nothing but attrition losses since Jean Chretien. So this is part of a way out of the trap by looking for motivated grassroots campaigners. If so, then it’s an interesting shopping list.
Just do the survey and encourage them to go up every obscure blind alley. A resurgent Liberal party in the east is the best guarantee of continued Conservative government.
Just more affirmation as to the stunted childish reality of these clowns the media so loves. No mention of gay aboriginal farmers, or transgendered tranmission repairmen, or the elderly who grab caregivers asses in nursing homes, what is Canada coming to, I look to Justy to addresss these issues. We presently have an accomplished level headed economist running the best country in the world and the pathetic media want to install this dolt, media people are truly parasites.
The leader of the Shiny Pony Club wants the people to make his policy plank, let’s give him a plank that will send him back to teaching drama.
It’s looking more and more like the Pony is not really the leader, he’s the front “man” for the back room Jokers who are as clueless as he is.
I’m surprised they even put “Rural Canada” as a choice there. Justine has no connection to rural Canada whatsoever. When campaigning here in Brandon he didn’t go out to the countryside to meet people and try to win votes. Well, except for when he went to the native reserve outside of town and thought it was a good idea to talk about his pot legalization scheme. Moron.
Also, why would he put “Defence” in there? His party has been the natural enemy of the military since WW II. His father gutted and attempted to marginalize the military. Chretien did a whole lot of damage too. I’m sure Justine would do even worse things to us.
Marijuana but no fiscal policy.
Well maybe Justin can just reheat his dad’s approach to fiscal rectitude.
I sent a congrats as per a previous thread as Shyne Pony e-mail:vacuous1@hotmail.com
Tried using it again for this survey and it was recognized…so I signed up for all the important policy priorities, LGBT Policy, Marijuana, Youth…although Shyne was offended that there were only two choices for gender.
In related news, the American apparat is releasing its new regulations today. EPA has announced in veiled terms that it is shutting down coal-fired power generation and with it the entire coal industry. It has also announced, as mentioned here at SDA previously, that it is taking over ownership of every puddle and rivulet in the USA.
For the children, of course.
I predict, again, that 2012 was the last year a US election will be contested with Environmentalism as a positive subject to gain votes. Just as Sarah Brady’s last year in the spotlight was 2000 with Algore, the EcoNazis will be relegated to crazy old aunt status and hidden in a closet somewhere.
I think it is a measure of the Shiny Pony Liberals that they are still riding this dead horse. Particularly in Quebec, of all places. The only jobs a guy can get in Quebec are waiter or woodcarver, every other private industry has fled. They don’t even make hockey sticks anymore. Even General Machine has moved everything to China.
Ontario’s Liberals are laboring hard to catch up to the PQ’s acheivment at completely de-industrializing their province, what with the windmills and gas plant cancellations. Even the Low Information Voter crowd is beginning to notice their gas bills and electric bills are rising steeply, right along with their provincial taxes and their city taxes.
The Canadian issues of 2014 and onward are going to be taxes and the economy. People who can’t get jobs and don’t have any savings are not going to vote for Lesbian-only bike lanes and legalizing dope except in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Possibly Calgary. Those retards all have Iron Rice Bowl government jobs, they don’t feel the pinch.
Problem being, as the Eeeeevile Stephen Harper has proven since 2006, you can’t be Prime Minister anymore with just Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. That horse is dead.
That felt kinda wrong, but it’s the Liberals so I guess it’s alright.
Justin’ll be selling Arts policy and weed and LGBT outreach and wondering why it’s not working. Who knows though…it’s Canada, the land of the low information voter. JT just needs to show up and he’s going to win 100 seats.
That hair will probably get another 10 seats by itself.
It’s very important we stick to calling the LPC The Shiny Pony Club, it’s all they’ve got, it’s their latest attempt to fool the people with flash and dash,they think they can dress the window to attract attention but when you bypass the media maggots, take a closer look, the shop is empty.
I think what they are really asking is … which areas of your life would like us to micro manage more. There is only one item on that list that is worth considering … economy … that’s right stupid. It’s always the economy because without it we are Cuba North.
Ugh. ‘Health’? Yes, I care about ‘health’ although I think you screwed up typing ‘healthcare’.
LGBT is so passe’; I mean the political world has clearly moved on to the solipsism of appealing to ‘hermaphrodite rights’.
This leads to the conclusion that they can go mate with themselves…
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
How could they forget to mention the scourge of the evil transphobic Movember?
It requested a check on male or female, but where was the third one…..other ? Even undecided would have been proper liberal policy.
Even with JT at the helm, the Liberals remain the same, assuming what’s important for them is important to middle class Canadians. It’s sort of like the CBC assuming their program lineup is what Canadians want to watch. Evidence points to the contrary in both cases.
Instead of renewing themselves, the Grits try to scheme a way back into power. They thought Harper’s ascension would be short-lived so they’d soon be back to their carbon neutral Canada, Kyoto flag carrier Mo Strong vision of Liberaldom.
Harper let them kill themselves; they did and hate him for it. It’s ironic the only thing in the Senate scandal that touches Harper – his handling of underlings – is a result of his letting go of some the reins of power, only to be embarrassed by their naïve incompetence.
Adscam wouldn’t have killed Chretien; the Liberals had to do it to themselves. The Senate scandal hasn’t mortally wounded, and the carbon tax and spend Grits and NDP will not be trusted by taxpayer. Harper has to f*** up way bigger than this. The Tories will have to do it to themselves, despite the machinations of the mediarazzi.
As a personal friend of Justin,(he sends me friendly E-mails “To Don”, signed “Justin” almost daily,which I don’t mind but then he hits me up for money. We aren’t THAT close), I can see why he wants public input on some of these issues.
My suggestions to my buddy,Justin: the first and most important issue is without doubt, “Aboriginal Issues”. Now, we can pussyfoot around this forever,as past and currents governments have done, but I expect Justin to initiate a new era of cooperation with the Abos.
So, Justin, give ’em all their Land Claims.It was theirs first anyway,and sensitive liberals know we have no right to be here.
Once you do that,good buddy,all the other issues will gradually fade away,as Aboriginal Chiefs make all the decisions regarding multiculturalism, LGBT, transparency,the economy,environment,marijuana, arts & culture,etc.,etc.
MP’s and MLA’s can retain their jobs as lapdogs to the Chiefs,as Charlie Angus currently is to Chief Spence. Don’t worry,YOUR pensions will be safe.
Then, buddy o’ mine, you will be able to truly say you have brought in “change”.
You want to know about me …. Justin …. ? I’ll tell, you … I am a Canadian who is too smart to vote for a fawning socialist like you. Now go and wank.
“Hello, my name is Justin Trudeau and I’m running for Student Council Presid…. 0oops, I mean Prime Minister of Canada….”
At least the Spawn has broken down into much more infantile and largely irrelevant detail what his father coined as simply a “Just Society”. Perhaps this is the quest of the Spawn, to discover what it all meant. Or, maybe Papa was being cryptic and he really meant, a Justin Society, to be inherited by divine and genetic destiny.
Having managed / directed and also PAID FOR a couple of dozen consumer surveys in my career, this one is very clearly FAUX “research” to gather a database of more names & addresses for Liberals to spam … this is NOT anything that ressembles REAL consumer research.
In any genuine consumer survey you ask OPEN ENDED questions (= fill in the blank spaces with your thoughts; NOT ‘tick a box’) and let your respondents write in their own words (for example) their TOP 3, or top 5 or at the very most their top 10 ‘Canadian issues’ that are IMPORTANT to them. Then the researchers GROUP those many written responses by “issue category” (ie – 3 responses such as ‘inflation’, ‘cost of living’, ‘prices’ would all be grouped into ONE issue called “The Economy” for purposes of the client’s (= Liberals / Trudeau) analysis and follow-up for policy development and prioritization.
These clowns are scary stupid … if we waded through their deepest thoughts we wouldn’t get our ankles wet.
I took the opposite tack. I checked off all the ‘hard’ political issues, you know, the ones Justin has trouble understanding.
Of course it’s just a way of harvesting email addresses. That’s why
I signed up under another name and address.
Same – using a Montreal postal code.
The pic they used for that “poll” makes him look more like a simple minded imbecile than he already is. Slingblade for PM!
I’d sooner be boiled in liquid fecal matter than do a lib survey..
There are several items in the list that I care about (defense, science and tech, foreign affairs, aboriginals …). It’s just that I’m very certain that how the libs would treat those departments would be 180 degrees away from what I think about them.
I agree with some others – it’s really an email gathering enterprise. I didn’t bite.
It appears the lpc is back to an old strategy of 1- supress the conservative vote, aided and abetted by the media liberal fan club. 2- convince enough of the soft ndp vote to lend their vote as liberal supporters and 3- concentrate on winning the majority of seats in Ontario and Quebec, screw the west.
The first phase is based on the media fan club going ape doodoo over the Wright Duffy affair and suggesting that somehow in all of it tax dollars where misused. That is of course the weakest link in the narrative. The contention that because this may have been party money, and that is where they stop. What they hope is that nobody asks how you equate party money with tax dollars. Thats when the narrative implodes, the talking point depends on the listener still believing that political parties still receive a per vote subsidy. I have no misconception that the media fan club will ever make this connection on their own, and if they have are making an effort to ignore this fact.
The second phase became evident from the result of the four by-elections, particularly in Toronto Centre. The campaign was won by the person that best exemplified Santa Claus, not the candidate themselves, but their respective leaders. The left of the political spectrum is either unwilling to make personal sacrifice, or wants to be seen as compassionate. Never has been or ever will be about policy except, say whatever, do whatever, win at all costs, campaign on the left, and alternate between french and english leaders.
That strategy however has a weakness.
It depends on nobody ever asking the liberal leader a question that involves actually providing an answer.
Too funny! Go Justin Go!
Don’t forget the lesbian-only bike lanes!
So…no policy yet…
Waiting for survey results…
And survey/polls are always accurate, right?
Have at ‘er SDA gang!!
So many incentives to make you want to join the Shiny Pony Club, formerly known as the Liberal Party of Canada.
didn’t see gypsy on that list, bunch of bigots
Canadian Marijuana Pipeline,
some good shit.
Vote For Justin !
Well, if it is, in fact, gender-neutral washrooms, that would be provincial, actually, for the overwhelming proportion of public washrooms extant or likely to be built any time soon.
What exactly would a federal political party have to say about LGBT “issues”, anyway? Marriage and federal entitlement law has already been changed, many years ago now, in fact. And equality rights are guaranteed at section 15 (1) of the Charter.
Aside from the headline misnomer (“issues”, which should really be more like “policy categories”, based on the items listed), every once in a while with this crowd you get a whiff of the old PET gunslinger poseurism. They just can’t help themselves, apparently.
I mean really, just like gender-neutral washrooms, health and education policy are overwhelmingly provincial responsibilities. What? We’re going to go back to the days of confrontational grandstanding by First Ministers at televised conferences called to discuss national standards in social programs in exchange for cost-sharing, which the federal government was destined never to be able to live up to in the first place?
And, in the same vein, the list exudes the odour of Trudeaupian identity/special interest group politics. At least seven of the eighteen categories, by my read, can be so characterized: channeling Kate’s remark, “Economy” is one category, whereas “Arts and Culture”, “Status of Women”, “Youth”, “Aboriginal”, etc. are all separate. Really?
Leaving aside the goofy behaviour and the goofy statements, the part that I find so underwhelming about this guy is that he’s an anarchronism on auto-pilot. Without even the slightest indication that he’s even thought about it, he’s carrying on in a manner that has been long-dead, even within the Liberal Party.
David, I think you’ve hit on something important here. This reads like a shopping list of favourite Liberal causes rather than being a list of specific issues of the day or the decade. It seems more like deliberately trolling for people who are activists within specific areas of interest.
Now the Liberals don’t have much in the way of organizational strength any more, and they’ve been outgunned massively on grassroots worker and contributor support for many years. Election financing laws have eliminated their traditional base of support of several dozen huge corporate donations. Could this be an attempt by the Shiny Pony Club (love that phrase) to rebuild their local network of workers and supporters?
Think about it for a minute. The Libs have been getting their lights punched out in recent years among the various ethnic minorities. Gone are the days when they could go to a few big leaders within these communities and they would round up the vote for them. And every single federal election within the past 10 years has seen the Liberal vote count an percentage go down. It’s been nothing but attrition losses since Jean Chretien. So this is part of a way out of the trap by looking for motivated grassroots campaigners. If so, then it’s an interesting shopping list.
Just do the survey and encourage them to go up every obscure blind alley. A resurgent Liberal party in the east is the best guarantee of continued Conservative government.
Just more affirmation as to the stunted childish reality of these clowns the media so loves. No mention of gay aboriginal farmers, or transgendered tranmission repairmen, or the elderly who grab caregivers asses in nursing homes, what is Canada coming to, I look to Justy to addresss these issues. We presently have an accomplished level headed economist running the best country in the world and the pathetic media want to install this dolt, media people are truly parasites.
The leader of the Shiny Pony Club wants the people to make his policy plank, let’s give him a plank that will send him back to teaching drama.
It’s looking more and more like the Pony is not really the leader, he’s the front “man” for the back room Jokers who are as clueless as he is.
I’m surprised they even put “Rural Canada” as a choice there. Justine has no connection to rural Canada whatsoever. When campaigning here in Brandon he didn’t go out to the countryside to meet people and try to win votes. Well, except for when he went to the native reserve outside of town and thought it was a good idea to talk about his pot legalization scheme. Moron.
Also, why would he put “Defence” in there? His party has been the natural enemy of the military since WW II. His father gutted and attempted to marginalize the military. Chretien did a whole lot of damage too. I’m sure Justine would do even worse things to us.
Marijuana but no fiscal policy.
Well maybe Justin can just reheat his dad’s approach to fiscal rectitude.
I sent a congrats as per a previous thread as Shyne Pony e-mail:vacuous1@hotmail.com
Tried using it again for this survey and it was recognized…so I signed up for all the important policy priorities, LGBT Policy, Marijuana, Youth…although Shyne was offended that there were only two choices for gender.
In related news, the American apparat is releasing its new regulations today. EPA has announced in veiled terms that it is shutting down coal-fired power generation and with it the entire coal industry. It has also announced, as mentioned here at SDA previously, that it is taking over ownership of every puddle and rivulet in the USA.
For the children, of course.
I predict, again, that 2012 was the last year a US election will be contested with Environmentalism as a positive subject to gain votes. Just as Sarah Brady’s last year in the spotlight was 2000 with Algore, the EcoNazis will be relegated to crazy old aunt status and hidden in a closet somewhere.
I think it is a measure of the Shiny Pony Liberals that they are still riding this dead horse. Particularly in Quebec, of all places. The only jobs a guy can get in Quebec are waiter or woodcarver, every other private industry has fled. They don’t even make hockey sticks anymore. Even General Machine has moved everything to China.
Ontario’s Liberals are laboring hard to catch up to the PQ’s acheivment at completely de-industrializing their province, what with the windmills and gas plant cancellations. Even the Low Information Voter crowd is beginning to notice their gas bills and electric bills are rising steeply, right along with their provincial taxes and their city taxes.
The Canadian issues of 2014 and onward are going to be taxes and the economy. People who can’t get jobs and don’t have any savings are not going to vote for Lesbian-only bike lanes and legalizing dope except in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Possibly Calgary. Those retards all have Iron Rice Bowl government jobs, they don’t feel the pinch.
Problem being, as the Eeeeevile Stephen Harper has proven since 2006, you can’t be Prime Minister anymore with just Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. That horse is dead.
That felt kinda wrong, but it’s the Liberals so I guess it’s alright.
Justin’ll be selling Arts policy and weed and LGBT outreach and wondering why it’s not working. Who knows though…it’s Canada, the land of the low information voter. JT just needs to show up and he’s going to win 100 seats.
That hair will probably get another 10 seats by itself.
It’s very important we stick to calling the LPC The Shiny Pony Club, it’s all they’ve got, it’s their latest attempt to fool the people with flash and dash,they think they can dress the window to attract attention but when you bypass the media maggots, take a closer look, the shop is empty.
The follow up:
https://www.liberal.ca/donate/
Is there some confusion among Shiny Pony’s brain trust about
which targetted groups should now be vote whored going forward ?
New Yorks new mayor thinks about the same at this manchild: half-assed.
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/11/27/is-it-too-soon-to-say-i-told-you-so/
I think what they are really asking is … which areas of your life would like us to micro manage more. There is only one item on that list that is worth considering … economy … that’s right stupid. It’s always the economy because without it we are Cuba North.
Ugh. ‘Health’? Yes, I care about ‘health’ although I think you screwed up typing ‘healthcare’.
LGBT is so passe’; I mean the political world has clearly moved on to the solipsism of appealing to ‘hermaphrodite rights’.
This leads to the conclusion that they can go mate with themselves…
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
How could they forget to mention the scourge of the evil transphobic Movember?
It requested a check on male or female, but where was the third one…..other ? Even undecided would have been proper liberal policy.
Even with JT at the helm, the Liberals remain the same, assuming what’s important for them is important to middle class Canadians. It’s sort of like the CBC assuming their program lineup is what Canadians want to watch. Evidence points to the contrary in both cases.
Instead of renewing themselves, the Grits try to scheme a way back into power. They thought Harper’s ascension would be short-lived so they’d soon be back to their carbon neutral Canada, Kyoto flag carrier Mo Strong vision of Liberaldom.
Harper let them kill themselves; they did and hate him for it. It’s ironic the only thing in the Senate scandal that touches Harper – his handling of underlings – is a result of his letting go of some the reins of power, only to be embarrassed by their naïve incompetence.
Adscam wouldn’t have killed Chretien; the Liberals had to do it to themselves. The Senate scandal hasn’t mortally wounded, and the carbon tax and spend Grits and NDP will not be trusted by taxpayer. Harper has to f*** up way bigger than this. The Tories will have to do it to themselves, despite the machinations of the mediarazzi.
As a personal friend of Justin,(he sends me friendly E-mails “To Don”, signed “Justin” almost daily,which I don’t mind but then he hits me up for money. We aren’t THAT close), I can see why he wants public input on some of these issues.
My suggestions to my buddy,Justin: the first and most important issue is without doubt, “Aboriginal Issues”. Now, we can pussyfoot around this forever,as past and currents governments have done, but I expect Justin to initiate a new era of cooperation with the Abos.
So, Justin, give ’em all their Land Claims.It was theirs first anyway,and sensitive liberals know we have no right to be here.
Once you do that,good buddy,all the other issues will gradually fade away,as Aboriginal Chiefs make all the decisions regarding multiculturalism, LGBT, transparency,the economy,environment,marijuana, arts & culture,etc.,etc.
MP’s and MLA’s can retain their jobs as lapdogs to the Chiefs,as Charlie Angus currently is to Chief Spence. Don’t worry,YOUR pensions will be safe.
Then, buddy o’ mine, you will be able to truly say you have brought in “change”.
You want to know about me …. Justin …. ? I’ll tell, you … I am a Canadian who is too smart to vote for a fawning socialist like you. Now go and wank.
“Hello, my name is Justin Trudeau and I’m running for Student Council Presid…. 0oops, I mean Prime Minister of Canada….”
At least the Spawn has broken down into much more infantile and largely irrelevant detail what his father coined as simply a “Just Society”. Perhaps this is the quest of the Spawn, to discover what it all meant. Or, maybe Papa was being cryptic and he really meant, a Justin Society, to be inherited by divine and genetic destiny.
Having managed / directed and also PAID FOR a couple of dozen consumer surveys in my career, this one is very clearly FAUX “research” to gather a database of more names & addresses for Liberals to spam … this is NOT anything that ressembles REAL consumer research.
In any genuine consumer survey you ask OPEN ENDED questions (= fill in the blank spaces with your thoughts; NOT ‘tick a box’) and let your respondents write in their own words (for example) their TOP 3, or top 5 or at the very most their top 10 ‘Canadian issues’ that are IMPORTANT to them. Then the researchers GROUP those many written responses by “issue category” (ie – 3 responses such as ‘inflation’, ‘cost of living’, ‘prices’ would all be grouped into ONE issue called “The Economy” for purposes of the client’s (= Liberals / Trudeau) analysis and follow-up for policy development and prioritization.
These clowns are scary stupid … if we waded through their deepest thoughts we wouldn’t get our ankles wet.
I took the opposite tack. I checked off all the ‘hard’ political issues, you know, the ones Justin has trouble understanding.
Of course it’s just a way of harvesting email addresses. That’s why
I signed up under another name and address.
Same – using a Montreal postal code.
The pic they used for that “poll” makes him look more like a simple minded imbecile than he already is. Slingblade for PM!
I’d sooner be boiled in liquid fecal matter than do a lib survey..
There are several items in the list that I care about (defense, science and tech, foreign affairs, aboriginals …). It’s just that I’m very certain that how the libs would treat those departments would be 180 degrees away from what I think about them.
I agree with some others – it’s really an email gathering enterprise. I didn’t bite.
It appears the lpc is back to an old strategy of 1- supress the conservative vote, aided and abetted by the media liberal fan club. 2- convince enough of the soft ndp vote to lend their vote as liberal supporters and 3- concentrate on winning the majority of seats in Ontario and Quebec, screw the west.
The first phase is based on the media fan club going ape doodoo over the Wright Duffy affair and suggesting that somehow in all of it tax dollars where misused. That is of course the weakest link in the narrative. The contention that because this may have been party money, and that is where they stop. What they hope is that nobody asks how you equate party money with tax dollars. Thats when the narrative implodes, the talking point depends on the listener still believing that political parties still receive a per vote subsidy. I have no misconception that the media fan club will ever make this connection on their own, and if they have are making an effort to ignore this fact.
The second phase became evident from the result of the four by-elections, particularly in Toronto Centre. The campaign was won by the person that best exemplified Santa Claus, not the candidate themselves, but their respective leaders. The left of the political spectrum is either unwilling to make personal sacrifice, or wants to be seen as compassionate. Never has been or ever will be about policy except, say whatever, do whatever, win at all costs, campaign on the left, and alternate between french and english leaders.
That strategy however has a weakness.
It depends on nobody ever asking the liberal leader a question that involves actually providing an answer.