What is it about Poilievre’s style and policies that seems to have Tories across the pond looking at him with interest?
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Might be interesting.
“What is it about Poilievre’s style and policies that seems to have Tories across the pond looking at him with interest?”
He’s talking about treating Canada as something other than a sheep farm. Where the citizens are CITIZENS, and not mere sheep to be fleeced and slaughtered at whim. What else do you call their program of 75% taxation and MAiD? One out of four Canadians with a job works for the government, kids.
Such talk is terrifying to sheep-farming Socialists. Brit Tories look on in sick fascination, they being the original sheep-farmers since the English Civil War. Allow the lower classes their rights? What a novel concept.
That’s part of it, but it’s one thing for a bombast like Trump to go hard after the press, but it’s quite another to see a politician in “nice” Canada do the same thing in refusing to play the journo-list game. He also comments on things that other nominal conservatives refuse to, and some are seeing him as a beacon of hope. Plus, apples are crunchy punctuation.
The British Conservative party stopped being conservative long ago.
They are now astonished that a well spoken conservative can survive in politics.
So are the Canadian media and the Liberals – and horrified too.
Brian Mulroney said all the right things too…as did Preston.