Jack Layton's ties. They were silk and had personalized "Jack Layton" labels hand-sewn into them. How is that Cabbagetown-ish? Cabbagetown is one of the poorest working-class neighbourhoods in Toronto. Folks there don't wear ties, let alone the monogramed silk variety. These were the folks the late NDP leader represented. But the ties I saw today pretty much gave it away.
Afterall, Jack came from a privileged family in tony Hudson Quebec. His father had been a member of Brian Mulroney's conservative government, but Jack had re-defined himself as a humble man-of-the-people -- except for the ties.....oh, and the ego. Once privileged, always privileged.
Jack is back. A year after his death, he is bursting all over the media. A movie is being made of his life and a gigantic monument to his "humility" -- complete with bust sculpted by his widow -- is being unveiled at the prestigious Toronto Necropolis cemetary, where Canadian luminaries such as George Brown and William Lyon MacKenzie are buried. Just watched an interview with The Widow Chow, another "privileged peasant" (read middle-class socialist), during which I gleaned his vaingloriousness. (Sorry, don't like the woman.)
I think I blogged about his completely bogus "state" funeral, but here we are with more of the same. I mean Jack, just RIP.
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Nancy you often quote your dear wise Mother,
ReplyDeleteso I shall take the time to quote my dear long deceased mother who died 42yrs ago yesterday!
Mary Gertrude O'Neill MacMahon always said
"if you have'nt anything kind to say about a person keep the water in your mouth"!!!!!!!!
She truly lived by that. Being a Christian and a convert - this comes to mind "Judge Not and Thou shall Not be Judged. JACK LAYTON is dead
and if his ties were monogrammed who gives a damn. The Chinese built our Railways.
Try a little tenderness, dear girl you are above this. Yours, B.A.M>F.
My mother said the same thing. I just can't stand the hypocrisy of the Layton gang. He also had totally cockamaymee (sp?) ideas about how Canada should be run. As I said, Jack just RIP.
DeleteAnd where did the "Chinese" stuff come from?
DeleteHis wife is Chinese and you don't like her.
ReplyDeleteI certainly am NO NDP but you would be amazed
at how many 30 to 50yr olds who have become NDP.
Especially in Quebec. Layton had faults like all of us. But he was a gentleman to all in every political party and he handled his dying with enormous dignity. Could you do that??
He inspired a whole generation to get involved with politics. Could you do that? Could I?
That's all I'm saying dear girl.
It's not because she is Chinese that I don't like her. I don't like her opportunism about Layton's death. That display yesterday was unreal. I mean, if he had been so popular, why didn't he win the last election? We all know why. He would have given away the store.
ReplyDeletePoor Mulcair (can't stand him either), he still has to lurk in Layton's shadow -- thanks to Chow's efforts to keep Jack alive and garnering votes from the crypt. I predict she'll run for leader and win on his dead ticket.