By Lethbridge Herald on March 24, 2022.
Editor:
Sometime over the next couple of weeks, or during the ensuing leadership race, someone is sure to trot out the old line about the UCP being a big tent party.
Not true, of course.
From where I stand, down by the whack-a-mole pitch, the phrase âbig tentâ can only be used in reference to what Jason Kenney et al cobbled together in a paragraph like: âThe big top tentâs caught fire and the clown cars are spinning in circles through a storm of blazing elephant dung.â
The truth of the matter is, the old PCs and the Wild Rosers who dislike and distrust each other with a visceral passion were only brought together by their mutual fear that they were no longer the only show in town and if they didnât hang together they would, assuredly, hang separately.
So they shook hands and embraced for the cameras and it was business as usual for a while.
Except it wasnât and, while thereâs some fun to be had in watching the equilibrialists shaking the tightrope on one another and the clowns giving the hotfoot to the Ringmaster, itâs really no way to run a circus.
Which brings us to where we are today.
Itâll be a grand spectacle but, in the end, the circus is leaving town.
Ken Sears
Lethbridge
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