ONLY person anywhere near #TrudeauGroper is Canadian Airforce Member* next to him— the narcissist ignores him as #KokaneeGroper waves to emptiness (but his personal photographer took the photo)
*Troop represents every Canadian ignored by #groperGate
— Manny_Ottawa (@manny_ottawa) July 12, 2018
Does a country get the leaders that it deserves? If so, what does the present political disarray say about Britain? Or is it that the conditions of modern democracy guarantee the ascension of ambitious mediocrities, leaders without powers of leadership?
From the first in the Brexit negotiations, Prime Minister Theresa May—who had already proved her weakness and incompetence at the Home Office, Britain’s interior ministry—showed the vision of a Chamberlain, rather than a Churchill. It should have been obvious to her—as it should have been obvious to Neville Chamberlain that Hitler was no ordinary politician—that it was essential, in fact a matter of life and death, for the European Union to make Brexit a disaster for Britain because, were it not, then that would be a disaster for the European Union.
A prosperous Britain outside the Union would have destroyed the EU’s raison d’être, which was already strongly under attack. Emmanuel Macron, president of France, even said that if France had held a referendum at the same time that Britain did, the result would have been a bigger majority for leaving than in Britain. Brexit was thus an opportunity for European politicians to demonstrate that, however unsatisfactory the Union might be, life would be worse without it.
Nah, just on somebody else’s dime.
The leader of the EU is drunk again, but in EU language they call this “back pain” pic.twitter.com/vAWmsMtnvF
— Voice of Europe 🌐 (@V_of_Europe) July 12, 2018
The beginning of the road back to fiscal sanity:
Ontario’s provincial government is promising to audit government spending, end cap-and-trade and scrap the current sex-education curriculum in the throne speech delivered Thursday by Ontario’s Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell.
The speech echoes many of the Ford government’s campaign promises, vowing to sell beer and wine in convenience and big box stores, and be a “government for the people” that will cut taxes, protect jobs and lower hydro rates.
In the speech, the government vows to launch a Commission of Inquiry into the government’s financial practices to identify ways to “restore accountability and trust in Ontario’s public finances.”
It will include a line-by-line audit of all government spending to “identify and eliminate duplication and waste.”
“The era of accounting tricks and sleight of hand must end,” Dowdeswell said in the speech.