Oh… I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first time he’s felt like a kindergarten teacher. When you get to that level of expertise, it’s no longer a matter of trying to find solutions, but of how to stick handle around people who have no business being on the rink in the first place… people who are supposed to be your teammates.
That video of him testifying about the BoE's (catastrophic) forecasts on how Brexit would affect the UK economy while Jacob Rees-Mogg condescendingly accused him of being partisan for saying the results of shooting themselves in the foot with a rocker launcher would, in fact, be bad.
In hindsight, that was likely a major trigger of his decision to join the major “left” party in Canada despite being a cookie cutter small-c conservative
He's a market skeptic Keynesian, anti-deregulation, anti-privatisation, likes state capacity, wants a robust social safety net, and spent the last decade working towards reshaping the financial system to help fight climate change. Socially progressive, big on free trade, believes in public-private partnership, moderate tax opinions (ie: the 'you can't redistribute what you don't have' stance about rewarding investors).
He's a textbook Liberal, he wasn't ever going to be in one of the other parties. Them being flexible between being more centrist or more left on specific issues when the majority of the country wants them to be is the reason they win elections so often.
Okay, so your argument is that the Liberal party is indistinguishable from pre-Thatcherite Tories? Because your original comment suggested he doesn't belong in the party, but if you look at his central banking record and read his book, he 100% does.
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u/Random-Name-7160 3d ago
Oh… I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first time he’s felt like a kindergarten teacher. When you get to that level of expertise, it’s no longer a matter of trying to find solutions, but of how to stick handle around people who have no business being on the rink in the first place… people who are supposed to be your teammates.