Canadian Liberals Implode - Desperation Ensues

The election in Canada on 23rd January is going to be worth watching. This may be approaching the glee I felt watching the 2004 Euro Elections here in the UK unfold after getting back from the local count (where UKIP hit as many votes as Labour and the Lib Dims combined). Now I appreciate not many Brits will feel that Canadian politics should matter all that much, but I think its worth noting. Because what we are seeing here is a profoundly Leftist, 'Liberal' (for Liberal read for example leader Paul Martin threatening MPs with expulsion if they bring forward any Bills to limit abortion - which can be performed up to nine months in caring Canada) Party in its death throes. They have been in power in Canada for about a gazillion years and have adopted all the smug, corrupt elitist Leftism that comes with such a situation.

Corruption scandal after corruption scandal has crippled them on a scale that even Tony Blair would scarcely contemplate. One of the prime movers in breaking the last, greatest of those scandals (ignored as long as possible by the MSM in both Canada and even more markedly in the neighbouring US) is this man, described in one Bloggers Guide as the hardest working Blogger on the Net, an epithet it is hard to disagree with.

Up there with the best of the Scandalbreakers such as the man who by and large ended Dan Rather's career and our own beloved expat Yank Scott Burgess who outed the 'Sassygate' journalist Dilpazier Aslam and caused powerful heads to roll at the Guardian, the Captain has announced his intention to liveblog the Election. I for one will attempt to be there to watch the fun - this is gonna be GOOD!