Wednesday, September 14, 2016

My Way or The Highway, Lizzie May. This Sounds Like a Purge.


Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, sacked three of her top aides yesterday. Their sin? They stood with the solid majority of Green Party members on the Boycott/Divest/Sanction movement to protest Israel's half-century of occupation and theft of Palestinian land.

Let's call it what it is - a purge. It erases any notion that the Green Party is anything more than Lizzie's personal fiefdom.

Andrew Weaver, head of the BC Green Party and Ms. May's fellow traveller, is floating the idea of the party changing its name to distance itself from the "extremist fringe elements" he accuses of having hijacked the GPC.
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3 comments:

  1. Uncommoner10:51 PM, September 14, 2016

    I hear that the Reform Party name is open just now...

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  2. The Mound of Sound12:52 PM, September 15, 2016


    I'm encouraged at how many GPC members aren't cowed by May or Weaver. Many, this writer included, are coming to see them both in a much different light.

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  3. Northern PoV2:34 PM, September 15, 2016

    another one bites the dust

    or....
    its really hard to be a "serious" political entity and stay righteous on every issue

    and...
    food for thought on another saw-horse of yours, C14
    "responsibility of Parliament in promoting and constructing the meaning of rights in dialogue with the courts."
    http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/september-2016/the-charter-partys-new-dance-with-the-judiciary/

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