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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
Angry Beard was a excellent parliamentarian. He also had the luxury of always being able to be on the attack.
Would've been interesting to see him defend his govt had he and the party been in a position to do so. Incredibly smart man.
Layton must be spinning in his grave at the current state of the federal NDP.
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I don't think that Layton was all that enamored with Tom.
Tom was a lot closer to the center in terms of his economic policies, you look at his election platform and it was actually a decent platform for someone like me to be interested in.
But the rest of the NDP didn't like it and pretty much et brutus'd him.
The other thing that I liked about Tom, is he was a straight forward communicator, and seemed to have a high level of integrity around how the government should deal with the public.
He was a bit of a throwback so to speak.