Dem Bericht zufolge gelang es der NDP bei den Wahlen im April nicht, sich als realisierbare Option zu verkaufen
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ndp-april-federal-election-report/?login=true
Dem Bericht zufolge gelang es der NDP bei den Wahlen im April nicht, sich als realisierbare Option zu verkaufen
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ndp-april-federal-election-report/?login=true
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There was more than that. Unfortunately, a lot of people in our party are allergic to fundraising properly, while being hypocritical on shit like supporting Bernie Sanders (when he was an excellent fundraiser who only got outfundraised by 2 billionaires that self-financed their own campaigns in 2020). We’re not gonna build socialism in this country if we keep this party broke with shit like low-fundraising (i.e., supporting low entry fees, or not putting effort into it).
Also, the party leaving nomination contests to last minute, is insane, we need to nominate people at least 6 months in advance, but ideally a year.
There’s some organizing stuff that’s fairly common sense that the report puts out that I agree with (tldr: we need better regional organizing).
Also, the party’s insistence on mass spending on TV ads is not the way for us to succeed. We’re not the liberals and conservatives, we run on groundgame and GOTV by turning people out to vote. In 2022, ONDP tried it for the election and didn’t work (and in 2021 where the party also outspent the tories on advertisement in a single year and it did jackshit). Provincially, ONDP ran a highly targeted campaign, and saved ship. The fed NDP needs to get better data, and better target seats, because mass spending on TV can help on some level, but local campaigns are more important.
Seems like this is just some useless fluff report that tries to blame the election loss on external factors and absolve blame from anybody of importance. The entirety of Singh’s tenure was defined by a continuous decline in the NDP’s fortunes, they were mostly driven from Quebec, they were completely driven out of Ontario, they’re dead in the maritimes for a generation, They got lucky picking up a couple seats in BC in 2021, but that’s it.
This was 8 years in the making, and to pretend it was Carney or Poilievre or Trump that caused them to lose is deluding themselves.
Look at polls back in 2024, the Liberals basically collapsed, and the NDP gained almost nothing. Furthermore, upwards of 2/3s of their support was very soft, so should it come as a surprise when they nearly lose that amount during the election.
Jagmeet Singh is not mentioned once here, even though his riding had the single largest drop in NDP support of their incumbent ridings. And that’s not even including the fact that the riding had the most resources of any in the country, including poached support from New Westminster which lead to Peter Julian’s defeat. He was a failure of a leader, and any report that does not centre around that is not serious.
The NDP failed because of their imbecilic decision to run back Singh as leader despite already running two campaigns under his leadership and making 0 discernible headway (and performing significantly worse than his 2 immediate predecessors). The definition of insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results, and in this case, it was entirely predictable that the fall of Trudeau would take Singh down with it.
The way to prevent what happened was for Singh to have the self awareness to resign instead of taking the entire party down with him due to ego, or for the party and/or caucus to have recognized this and made him walk the plank. The LPC took the needed actions and were rewarded for it – Singh and the NDP just didn’t have it in them and paid the price.