“SUNNY WAYS, my friends, sunny ways.” The rest of the world may have struggled to grasp the meaning of Justin Trudeau’s words, but Canadians knew exactly what he meant. Canada’s new prime minister was beginning his victory speech by quoting an old one – the highly successful Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919).
In the Aesop’s Fable, from which Laurier drew his catch-phrase, the North Wind and the Sun compete to remove the cloak from a passing traveller’s back. The freezing breath of the North Wind strips the leaves from the trees, but the traveller wraps his cloak ever-more-tightly around his body. Defeated, the North Wind makes way for the Sun, who beams down upon the traveller with radiant good will. The North Wind’s chill is replaced by shimmering summer heat. Overjoyed, the traveller casts aside his cloak.
“If I were in power, I’d try the sunny way”, said Laurier. And he was as good as his word, choosing persuasion and positivity, over force and negativity, on every possible occasion during the 15 years (1896-1911) he served as Canada’s Prime Minister.
Trudeau’s “sunny ways” quip was, therefore, political shorthand for: “The frigid years of Mr North Wind, Stephen Harper, are over; and the years of Mr Sunshine, Justin Trudeau, are about to begin.”
But the 43-year-old son of Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 until 1984) wasn’t content to draw rhetorical inspiration from Canadian leaders alone, his superb victory speech went on to borrow from President Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address.
Once again it was about the superiority of positive over negative politics. Having promised Canada a Liberal-led Government that would be “positive, generous and hopeful” he reminded his cheering supporters of the extraordinary campaign that had made it possible. Proof, he said, that: “You can appeal to the better angels of our nature – and win by doing it.”
And what a win it was! The Liberal Party began the campaign holding just 34 seats in the Canadian House of Commons. By the end of election day, 19 October, the Liberals had won 184 seats – ten clear of the number needed to govern the country on their own. Lazarus would’ve been proud!
How did they do it? How did they rise from third party status to overhaul the left-wing New Democrat Party (NDP) Opposition, which the early run of opinion polls had identified as the front-runner? And, how did Justin Trudeau do it? An MP for just seven years, and leader of the Liberals for less than three years, how did a 43-year-old schoolteacher unseat an incumbent Prime Minister and dash the hopes of his NDP rival, Leader of the Opposition, Thomas Mulcair?
First and foremost, Justin Trudeau won because he was … Justin Trudeau. As the son of one of Canada’s most popular prime ministers, Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) he was always going to be talked about as a prospective prime minister. Such expectations do, of course, have their downside. Still, instant name recognition across the entire electorate is a pretty hefty advantage with which to begin one’s political career.
He also had the advantage of growing up in an intensely political environment: absorbing, from an early age, the abstruse rules of the political game; the unique political culture of his father’s Liberal Party; and the intoxicating fumes of dynastic expectation.
As if these advantages were insufficient to set him apart from his political competitors, Trudeau is also highly intelligent and blessed with a film-star’s good looks. In 2005 he married Sophie Grégorie – a prominent Canadian TV celebrity journalist – and in short order they produced three, equally telegenic, children. These sort of things shouldn’t matter – but, of course, they do. Right from the start Justin, Sophie and the little Trudeaus looked like Canada’s First-Family-In-Waiting – straight out of Central Casting!
And yet, even with a great name, a lifetime spent in and around politics, a celebrity wife and three gorgeous kids, a politician still has to possess, in his own right, the attributes and instincts of an effective leader. Perhaps the greatest of these attributes is political courage: the capacity to do what others would dare not do, and to stick with his choices – no matter how fierce the criticism. He must also be able to read the political terrain. To see a way of reaching his objectives that his own choices, and the choices of others, have opened up. The other attribute a politician needs is an acute sense of timing: of knowing, like Kenny Rogers’ Gambler, when to hold onto your cards; fold-up your hand; walk away from the table; and run for the nearest exit. All that – and luck. Lots of luck.
Like the NDP Leader, Thomas Mulcair, believing that he had to prove the NDP was ready for office by coming out in favour of a balanced budget. Trudeau immediately saw that, by tacking to the right, the NDP had opened up a vast swathe of political terrain to its left. Already convinced that the politics of austerity was a dead-end street, the Liberal Leader courageously abandoned conventional wisdom and declared that his government would rescue Canada’s faltering economy – not by reducing expenditure, but by stimulating it through job-creating infrastructure projects. If the NDP was willing to line up alongside Stephen Harper, then the Liberals were only too happy to channel the spirit of John Maynard Keynes!
And he did it all with a winning smile and an unrelentingly positive demeanour. He sensed that Canada’s patience with Mr North Wind’s vicious flurries towards war and religious intolerance; his squalls of fiscal and social conservatism; had come to an end. The young Liberal leader with the famous name was convinced that, more than anything, Canadians were hoping for a change in the weather. So that is what he gave them. His “sunny ways” broke up the ice of Harper’s endless winter. The wind dropped away. The sun came out. And the electorate’s doubts about the Liberal Party were cast aside – like a cloak they no longer needed.
And he won.
Certainly very interesting…Particularly how the populace voted for what was essentially a form of Keynesian application…. the injecting of funding into job creating infrastructure….
And in this dumbed down country …we have a hard time accepting what once was a hallmark of the NZ economy.
Instead we have the weak and anemic lip service by Key all those years ago about some cretinous bicycle path that would employ 200 people.
To date …it is still unfinished.
There was also the promise of 300,000 new jobs to be created and that we wont become tenants in our own land…
And then Key searches for ways to privatize the state housing stock to overseas buyers along with the prisons , health , education and culminating in signing the TTPA which is an iron clad guarantee that foreigners can now buy our land.
Lochniver comes to mind as he try’s to tell us we will never be sued.
Supreme joke.
No wonder National was so roaringly silent on having a Foreign Buyers Register to ascertain WHO REALLY was at the root of pushing up house prices here and locking out first home buyers…
These are but the latest in a long line of spin by the neo liberal troughers since Douglas…yet some of the least in terms of blatant lies.
It was said once by Thatcher that Socialism is fine so long as they can spend someone else’s money.
– I would rephrase that as nearer to the mark by stating ‘ the neo liberals are fine as long as they can re-appropriate someone else’s money into their bank accounts ‘ .
Particularly doing so by rort , fraud and borderline legal loopholes and flawed fiscal logic to justify effectively stealing the commons wealth for their own pecuniary advantage.
And then creating such slogans as this pearl : ‘sense of entitlement’ of socialists yet displaying an enormous ‘sense of personal entitlement’ that dwarfs anything the social democrat may have ever had.
Well done Canada.
You have voted out the reptilians from among you … may health and prosperity be yours because of that bold move.
Hear hear WK. Very well put there.
I’m inclined to believe people (communities) do much better in a socialist environment, which is a natural situation for any creature to survive. It offers support, protection and strength, the basic necessities for survival.
What’s in place at present, promoting individual responsibility, going it alone etc and to hell with anyone else, is an alien and destructive concept for human and animal kind.
Yep, well done Canada. A small light has gone on in the world with the election of Trudeau’s Liberals, which interestingly went moderately left, while the New Democrats bombed out by going towards the centre.
A short, sharp message to Labour perhaps here?
‘ I’m inclined to believe people (communities) do much better in a socialist environment, which is a natural situation for any creature to survive. It offers support, protection and strength, the basic necessities for survival.
What’s in place at present, promoting individual responsibility, going it alone etc and to hell with anyone else, is an alien and destructive concept for human and animal kind.’
Such good words…..all I ever desired was to see around me individuals and families that were positive , radiant … creative … confident …
Me ?.. I could quite happily live in a bush hut and be content so long as I knew all was well with our country… tend the vege patch and do some artworks or three … play in that band and see the younger ones prosper …
Not to be feeling in a state of constant warfare … despairing for my country because of those who wage that war and are from our very own…
But down from the hills we all come… ready to fight another day. And we do it because of those very things you mentioned above, Mary _ A.
He certainly does seem a breath of fresh air, starting with his stance against austerity. Let’s hope he can make a difference. I know our Canadian friends have been doing it tough.
Once again First Past the Post systems fuck the third parties. I feel sorry for NDP, they got 20% of the vote, but only 13% of the seats.
I have a deep distrust of charismatic leaders and of political scions so naturally I expect Tredeau to end up being no friend of the people.
Before the election Trudeau was in favour of changes to the first past the post election system. However, now that he has won so convincingly, one can kiss that idea good bye.
Korakys: “I have a deep distrust of charismatic leaders and of political scions…”
Me too; and it’s based on a longish life following politics. Moreover, we ought all to realise that there really aren’t any saints, and too much fawning adulation is very bad for politicians. This is the means by which they come to believe in their own publicity: we have our own exemplar close to hand…..
It’s not charisma, it’s comedy. Keys going on radio saying he wee’s in the shower is comedy.
Saying troops are sent to Iraq to train local troops, when in reality they are there to hold a flag up is comedy.
The rediculous situation with the Saudi Prince is foreign policy comedy.
42 million for the prime ministers office so Key can be protected from the public eye. That is real comedy.
You are mistaking youth for corrupt ability. May be if you had of made a better connection with inheritance, that would strengthen your argument.
Sam: “Keys going on radio saying he wee’s in the shower is comedy.”
Not even comedy, in my view. Undignified scatology, not worthy of a prime minister; a great deal more information than any of us needs to know.
Many people evidently think the PM is charismatic: I don’t. But I do think that he’s come to believe in his own publicity.
“May be if you had of made a better connection with inheritance, that would strengthen your argument.”
Are you arguing that Trudeau jeune will make a great PM, purely because Trudeau l’aîné was – at least in the eyes of many? I think you’re on shaky ground there: inheritance is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for great performance as a politician. Or in any other role, come to that: I haven’t heard anyone asserting that the Prince of Wales will make a great king, because his mother has been a spectacularly successful monarch.
With regard to Trudeau, best to take a cautious approach: let’s wait and see how he performs.
yeah ? read some history of Canada then. Hie father was an exceptional man. I daresay the banks and the yanks and the USA media will shit on him relentlessly but he is his father’s son, and his intelligence will out wit the most of them for long enough for change to occur.
I see that he’s a pretty little thing, as I recall his father being as well….
Yeah Merrial – the father now referred to as the “father” of Canada.
No big deal, eh?
Not to the right anyway. Sorry.
@ merrial
A pretty little thing ? Are you a fucking idiot ? This is 2015 . Not 1955.
Your point being Merrial?
[Merrial, your references to this person’s physical attributes is noted, but is getting tiresome. You’ve made your point. Enough. – ScarletMod]
Moderator: as with the others, you’re missing the point. Which really should be obvious to those of you who follow politics. Some people – especially males – have no compunction in so characterising equally presentable female politicians, I note. None of you should get your principles in a twist about my pointing out the same thing with regard to Trudeau. Then I couldn’t resist responding in kind to earnest and indignant reactions. For heaven’s sake, don’t take yourselves – and him – so seriously!
I don’t give a good goddam what he looks like; I note only that he’s also easy on the eye, as was Trudeau senior.
As with his father, his presentability and charisma will blind people to his politics, until eventually they wake up and realise he isn’t the great white hope. Those of us who’re old enough – and who were taking notice – will remember it happening with Trudeau the Elder.
I recall similar deifying of Obama when he came to power; we’ve all seen how that turned out. Some of us cautioned against over-optimism at the time, but we were scorned as negative righties. We were right though.
Oh right, are you saying repealing his predecessors pork barrel policies is not useful and bad for the Canadian economy.
Then there is the F-35 deal Trudeau immediately canceled the day he was elected. Oooooooh, nooooooo. Danger, danger, high voltage. It’s a Disaster. *sarcasm
Sam: “Oh right, are you saying repealing his predecessors pork barrel policies is not useful and bad for the Canadian economy.
Then there is the F-35 deal Trudeau immediately canceled the day he was elected. Oooooooh, nooooooo. Danger, danger, high voltage. It’s a Disaster. *sarcasm”
You’re missing the point. I don’t have an opinion on what his policies are, or the effect of such policies as he manages to implement. I’m cautioning against deifying him.
I’ve been around a long time, followed politics since my teens. I’ve heard it all before: over the last large number of years, there’s been a procession of such people whose election is widely touted as being the saving of their countries.
They never have been: there are always issues that they handle badly, or not at all. Or there are scandals; eventually the electorate becomes disillusioned. And so it was with Pierre Trudeau, as was reported at the time – back when we actually had journalism. Folk are looking back at him with rose-tinted specs, I’m afraid. Maybe the good he did outlives his failures; but the contemporary view of him was, I recall, much more conditional than many of you evidently want to believe.
Don’t set Trudeau up on a pedestal. He’s human and not vastly experienced; he’s bound to make mistakes. Just watch him do the job of PM and see how it goes.
“Your point being Merrial?”
Surely you can figure it out.
Well written and I have strong hopes that 2017 will see the same reaction for this country, for a new path is sorely needed.
Not with the current state of the Labour party or the Greens.
Perhaps the election after next.
John Key is NZ’s Stephen Harper, and he still isn’t out of his prime yet.
I would hope for a change in 2017, but I have my doubts it will happen.
@ Dorothy – +100 – sooner woul be better.
Hahaha! Yeah. Rats leaving the sinking ship.
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/10/15/news/lynton-crosby-ditches-harpers-flailing-campaign
Thanks CT for a wonderfully well written piece. I have always thought that Canada and Canadians had a positive energy and this is reflected in your words. As a regular visitor to BC I have also felt it there. Sadly since the Key cronies have been running NZ that energy is not there. We need to restore that energy as well with those who care.
I left a reply and it disappeared as usual. So my donation won’t be forthcoming. Here is the reference I left on the other reply. FYI.
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/10/15/news/lynton-crosby-ditches-harpers-flailing-campaign
Great blog CT one of your best.
Their new Prime Minister is a former part time substitute drama teacher and snow board instructor.
We’ll see….
ANDREWO – Trudeau has more resolve in his finger than you have in your whole body by the sounds of it.
I arrived as a young 22yr old Kiwi in Toronto in 1968 when the boring old Conservative mob under Lester Pearson was running the show and it was grinding to a halt
That year it all changed in a flash when Pierre Trudeau came along, and I witnessed my workmates show a vibrancy that lifted the whole place up and Trudeau mania gripped us all, and yes I felt it for real so don’t think it isn’t real just because NZ is run by a creep self centred animal blinded by his own image of arrogance that repeated harpers errors to divide and rule because Kiwis will awake some day.
“You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all the time”
Wonderful event in our time when Canada awoke, we hope it becomes contagious.
@ CLEANGREEN…
Ah…CLEANGREEN ….you were there …whereas Andrewo was not …you experienced the people of Canada and the United States…where we do not know Andrewo’s movements…
And so therefore you are qualified to comment and Andrewo appears speculative…
And because of your wide travels you appear accommodating and broad minded…whereas this other appears …
cloistered, dogmatic …. stunted…and rigid…
Your widespread travels and observations have taught you much.
And we are so much the better for your insights.
I don’t believe in Royal Families.
Just because he father was capable doesn’t mean he is.
Like I said: We’ll see….
(PS I’ve never been to Canada but have worked for a Canadian owned company and have worked in the USA)
Andrewo: “Just because he father was capable doesn’t mean he is.
Like I said: We’ll see….”
Quite so. I’ve been making a similar point; Give the man time and space to prove himself. Or not….
Lets hope this the start of something big and successful.
With the history of the world under Washingtons influence people are getting cynical about politics,and if Crosby Textor didnt “train Harper on how to win” who did they wrap their tentacles around?
I hope for Canada’s future Trudeau is the one to get rid of Canada’s austerity.
Saying we don’t have anyone to go against Key is defeatist,Key has fostered that opinion .
If America gave us KEY, for their own ends, cant we do the same ,import a politition from Uk , or elsewhere,its not impossible.
We need a firebrand who is not bribable.
Wake up New Zealand tells of how Washington is fomenting war ,they use the European countries to train with missiles.
Shows US troops with missiles on the Russian borders.
Obama is furious that USA is found out in lies about the so called Isis or Isil terrorists,they are trained paid operatives of USA , That’s why they are against Russia and and Putins success in getting rid of the terrorists,all that money wasted by Obama to get rid of Assad!
The article claims the end of the One World Order is close,maybe with Canada’s new prime minister it will help.lets hope he dosnt ratify TPP.
Came across this progressive independent Canadian news site yesterday. Probably a very good source for keeping abreast of Canadian politics from here on in
http://rabble.ca/
This analysis is quite different from everything I’ve been reading about Trudeau.
I heard he got in because of strategic voting and an ‘anyone but Harper’ campaign. That suggests negative voting. Not a negative campaign from Trudeau, but his win wasn’t on a wave of positivity. Canada voted against Harper, not so much for Trudeau
I’ve heard his policies are very centrist and he’s a Blairite.
I think a lot of people voted Trudeau because he promised to stop first past the post and bring in a proportional system.
He’s hardly a Corbyn or a Sanders who offer a reasonable version of Leftism in their respective countries.
I think that is the point of the media now, you actually don’t know what information to trust anymore.
I liked the article but know very little about the Canadian system so don’t know how accurate this is (but I do know it is bound to be more accurate than the Herald or TV news!).
MSM have now single handedly destroyed their industry of news by their own greed and advertorials, bias reporting and strategic relationships. Does a person trust news anymore? NO.
Yes saveNZ, I think the same. I don’t bother with NZ’s TV news or newspapers…they’re worth glancing at to get an idea of why people think what they think.
I get my information and news from a range of blogs and internet news outlets. Paper, TV and their online sites are pointless. Paddy Gower for example. Old journalism is dead. Advertising killed it.
he also campaigned on full legalisation of recreational-cannabis..
.it didn’t seem to scare off the punters..
(r u taking notes..?..labour..?..)
and shares in canadas’ med-pot companies shot up by about 40% overnight..after his election..
More than one native woman are kidnapped every day in Canada. The previous Prime Minister said he wasn’t going to do anything about it. Trudeau campaigned to change that. That won him more votes than anything else, like letting people tòck up
It will be interesting how it goes from here. A good political message and what is largely missing in NZ,
Perhaps the greatest of these attributes is political courage: the capacity to do what others would dare not do, and to stick with his choices – no matter how fierce the criticism. He must also be able to read the political terrain. To see a way of reaching his objectives that his own choices, and the choices of others, have opened up. The other attribute a politician needs is an acute sense of timing: of knowing, like Kenny Rogers’ Gambler, when to hold onto your cards; fold-up your hand; walk away from the table; and run for the nearest exit. All that – and luck. Lots of luck.
and also agree with
Already convinced that the politics of austerity was a dead-end street, the Liberal Leader courageously abandoned conventional wisdom and declared that his government would rescue Canada’s faltering economy – not by reducing expenditure, but by stimulating it through job-creating infrastructure projects.
This is also what Key said he would do in his 2nd round in office,(cycleway etc) only it was fake. He instead stimulated the economy by borrowing, asset sales and immigration. Of course we now have big problems….. But it worked once, maybe twice with Labour losing the election with their behaviour, I’m not sure it will work a 3rd time because the results of the deception are starting to affect the population.
I hope for Canada’s sake they do not get side tracked into faking it and actually try to create real jobs and value. Not the NZ way of faking it .
The closest we had last election was Winston with his infrastructure and Internet Mana wanting to transform us into a digital economy. Both increased their votes (including Internet Mana doubling their party vote, it was the bad luck and attacks that lost them the seat).
Labour and Greens and Internet Mana (as a separate party without formal alliance) should have worked together.
Winston on many levels is better to say separate and just collaborate with the left. He is set to take the Natz votes.
A collaboration between the centre left would have mollified the left voter, instead Labour and a bit the Greens, all tried to compete and stab each others similar ideas which confused the voters who were also disgusted at the lack of professionalism and bullying to Internet Mana.
The left were handed a way to win the election with dirty politics but instead sided with the Nats and turned it into a poisoned chalice of misinformation and confusion.
I’m not even sure they understand what they did. In which case they will not learn from it.
One of the many big lies in modern politics is that there is a difference between political parties; there is not; they all use the same script, the script provided by international banks and corporations, together with local opportunists.
Another big lie is that if only the ‘right’ person could get elected to the top position things could change for the better; nothing can change for the better because the entire system is geared to maintaining Ponzi finance (creating money out of thin air and charging interest on it) via ever-greater population overshoot, ever-greater resource consumption and ‘progressively’ destroying every aspect of the environment that supports life on Earth. Hence, everything that matters gets worse by the day and Canada is in a lot worse state than when the last Trudeau was in power. .
Canada is especially vulnerable now because it has an economy which is dependent on digging up the place and exporting it (rather like that of Australia), which does not work when oil prices are below $60 a barrel (currently below $50). On the other hand, oil prices cannot rise to ‘economic’ levels because a doubling of oil prices would cripple the already-collapsing world economy.
Of course, when energy prices were high and ripping up Athabasca was profitable, money flowed and a massive house-price bubble was created. Whoops. Now there are massive deficits, ruptured budgets, and only frantic money-printing by central banks to hold it all together just a little longer. …….until abrupt climate change, wilting of global economic arrangements, global energy depletion or war (probably a combination of all four) brings global industrial civilisation to a halt.
Of course, the official narrative is one of ‘hope and change’, and we have already seen how well that worked out just across the border, in ‘Obamaland’, where the number of unemployed Americans has surged to 103 million, civil rights have been progressively removed, financial markets have peaked and are on the way down, climate chaos wreaks increasing havoc every season, and the fascistic industrial-military-complex is about the only sector left standing.
When we hear ” …they achieved a landslide victory as the entire country embraced the idea of a centrist, cautious plan to take the country forward in incremental steps,” then and only then will a strategy to woo the centre have any evidence of validity.
As has been observed, there is no centre. Have you ever met a politically engaged person who could genuinely be described as centrist?
What does exist is a vast body of people who know nothing about politics and try to get on with their lives. These people can be galvanized by a striking idea or something that speaks to their experience and their ambitions, but they aren’t centrist either.
To approach the kind of assertiveness which may reengage the disconected seems terrifying and counter-intuitive to some New Zealand strategists, (I’m talking to you Josie Pagani (if you still believe you are of the Left anywhere but as an introduction to Media panel audiences) and Mike Williams, but even Joe Biden this morning was talking free tertiary education. When New Zealand’s main Left of Centre political party is outflanked by the American Democrats, it may be time to reconsider the softly softly approach.
I don’t resile at all from the notion that a resurgent Labour is a necessary precondition to electoral change. But it isn’t a sufficient precondition. The disinterested and disengaged must be reanimated. If we rely on a steady-as-she-goes approach, the electorate may never wake up. On the other hand, the notion that a third party like the Liberals in Canada (or the Greens, or Mana or any one else) will surge from nowhere to carry the day is dangerous nonsense in today’s New Zealand context.
Unity unity unity, yes, of course, but also, perhaps, courage courage courage is needed.
The four horsemen doco ( on you tube) – backs up what you say @ afewwhoknowthetruth. It is the whole system that needs changing…but the change needs to start somewhere…a person?, a group, a country?…
I wonder if Trudeau had the same problem of a right-wing government toadying media that we have in New Zealand. If he did then that makes the Liberals’ achievement even more amazing.
The really, Big Question is; will Jeremy Corbyn and/or Bernie Sanders win in their respective homelands.
If so, the neo-liberal experiment will have ended as suddenly as another inflexible, dogma-driven system collapsed in 1991.
Or, like North Korea, will New Zealand hold out against a human tide finally united in pushing back against extreme (economic) ideology?
Ahhhh…the answer to that is that we were one of the first to be the experimental cases…
It took several years for the neo liberal disease to reach here, however …as we tend to be …. it usually used to take 10 years for this country to catch up with world trends… strangely however… with the small and easily manipulated/ apathetic populace we had …the neo liberal disease took hold much faster…
A lot like a galloping cancer does.
I would predict….that because we have a small and easily manipulated and somewhat isolated country … that this will be one of the last bastions for the rich to rape – and they will try their best to maintain that status for as long as they can milk it.
But we are also a curious country that seems to be subject to quite furious outbursts once a critical mass point is reached…
Think Springbok tour , 1981.
We can see now the big overseas populations are starting to rise up against this odious neo liberal era of deceit ( the TTPA did their cause no good whatsoever with its secrecy )… pity help those here stuck in the past who fail to realize times have now changed in New Zealand…
For those weasel employers and certain among the NZ Initiative… who have had their fun times dictating policy in this country….and ripping off workers to the tune of billions of dollars for decades ….
In the words of Bob Dylan ….
”Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin”
Mark my words …..the failure to learn the lessons of history destinies a person to always repeat it.
And they should never , – ever ,- ever – mistake our general good will and sense of fair play as weak servility and / or subservience.
No one likes a welcher.
These odious types are so incredibly , incredibly fortunate that they live in a civilized place such as this country … whereby the price of treason , legalized theft of the populace and political fraudulence isn’t that of being sentenced to death publicly by the sword.
They are very , very lucky indeed…
Perhaps when the change inevitably hits here we should indeed conduct a historic inquiry into the validity of the claims presented by those who sought to short change the public of this country ….
It would be interesting indeed to see all the justifications for all the rorts , indirect causes of peoples deaths and poverty and loss of national sovereignty as a direct result of those neo liberal policy’s ….
The unleashed public heat against the perpetrators in itself would be a type of sentence. And again I say… they are so fortunate they live in this country and not some other more … ‘ direct action ‘ motivated populace…
NEVER , EVER MISTAKE OUR GOOD WILL AS SERVILITY .
EVER !!!
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