NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh suffered a resounding defeat on election night, losing his own seat, his party reduced to a single-digit seat count.

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      10 hours ago

      I feel sad for the guy because he really did care and worked hard. He was a good dude.

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        10 hours ago

        He had his time and he did delivered some good things, but it’s defintely time for new ideas and more charismatic leaders. He was the most unpopular leader in this election cycle.

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          Jagmeet was plenty charismatic; and earnest, too. But while I worried about his focus, really he bounced off a glass ceiling; and then found slagging an ally in campaign ads was detrimental to both. (and let’s talk about how uncharacteristic THAT was)

          But he presented well as someone with decent motivations, and his causes were generally on the side of regular Canadians, as you’d expect from the oranges. He had his best party and just misstepped while puppet-mastering Justin.

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          9 hours ago

          I agree generally agree with you but charisma is so subjective. A lot of people think that trump is charismatic but to me he isn’t t all. Many think Carney is not charismatic but he is to me.

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      10 hours ago

      While I agree that change is necessary, I feel like NDP as a whole needs to change strategy. It’s like every single promise they make is about throwing shade on another party, or saying they will fix something liberals did, but rarely any actual constructive or original ideas. They need to come up with their own identity instead of basing it on the opposite of another.

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        23 minutes ago

        I mostly agree with agenda of the NDP and also with Singh but I also noticed that he started bashing the liberals more than usual in the last couple of month. I live in Manitoba and hear often official ads from the Conservative party in radio about things they blame on Trudeau. In my opinion this needs to stop, this is not professional.

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        3 hours ago

        rarely any actual constructive or original ideas

        My mom’s getting some dental work, thanks to his original idea.

        They need to come up with their own identity

        They HAVE an identity: small-biz heroes, middle-class champions, lift-all-boats tide. This has been their identity for decades.

        instead of basing it on the opposite of another.

        You confusing the orange with the blue?

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        9 hours ago

        I agree that bashing other parties is useless but everybody does it. For weird reason the critisism only is given to NPD.

        There is no such thing as original ideas in politics. Every ideas was proposed in other elections over the world.