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Our great leader will be forced to resign in the coming weeks. Ok, maybe not that fast... I’ll estimate that he’s gone before parliament reconvenes on March 3rd. How could someone like me, have such an absurd idea? Well, my political acumen may be a bit off but usually, I am 95% accurate in my predictions about forthcoming political events. I mean that this coup or botched and lame attempt to take over complete and total control over this country, by closing down the parliament has failed. And now there’s blood in the water. By blood, I mean our great leader has wounded him-self fatally, thanks to his prorogation abomination. It was an astonishing faux pas or to put more bluntly, a politically suicidal move. It has roused the citizenry, it has made the ruling party look like they are afraid of accountability and appear as if they are running an ex Soviet republic and not a country with a long standing parliamentary tradition. Another reason why our man’s days in Ottawa are numbered.
He’s upset the corporate establishment.
A control freak from Calgary doesn't just go stomping, and goose- stepping around Ottawa with jackboots and expect everyone to go out to cheer and chant "Heil Harper!" as he passes, without making a few enemies in the process; that is in the more staid and respectable halls of power of Bay Street, "The City" of London and if I even dare say even on Wall Street (in other words, those who own Canadian bonds and are financing our ballooning federal debt). Yes, our great leader is right, as he has told the media, the markets are spooked. They are horrified with his actions. And not because of parliament’s ( and it was a bit dysfunctional, but then democracy is messy business) shortcomings, but because the PM’s arbitrary crypto- commando, gorilla- warfare like tactics, which he uses to undermine Parliament and muzzle the opposition, are not pleasing the establishment. Such shenanigans don’t go down very well in the centers of financial power.
But the main reason you can start the countdown to his ouster is this: Deep within his de-composing fast , party’s ranks, there is very real discontent brewing due two his unique leadership style; the great leader’s authoritarian leanings, I suspect, are causing great discomfort inside the inner-sanctum of his party. Hence, his opponents both inside the ruling party and at the official opposition, can smell, see and soon taste the wounded prey’s carcase floating in the water. Sorry to use such ghastly imagery but this is politics not a crochet class.
The great leader is now a liability within his own party, prorogation has sealed his fate. He’s toast. He's a human, H1N1 pandemic. He's a walking weapon of self- destruction for the/his ruling party.
The night of the long knives is coming to town soon in not so boring anymore Ottawa. But the great leader will be at the games and not in the capital, to cover his back -side. And those traitors and knaves are busy plotting and waiting to strike. Our leader will either be forced out by an internal party rival, or stand down gracefully before the next elections. I say he will go down crash and burn style in his bunker.
The big question is who will take over the party after the great leader is thrown overboard in a mutiny? Who knows, maybe the young hunk- chunk who at this blog entry's date, is still the defence minister and was a would- be NATO boss
(but he didn't get the plum job, and a Dane got it instead because, Canada wanted almost go to war for a piece of rock in the arctic with another NATO member Denmark, [perhaps for the oil off shore] which also claimed the frozen island..) from the Maritimes?
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