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They just don’t get it, after everything that has happened they still don’t get it, they never will get it, so let them leave, let them go, good riddance.

That pretty well sums up the sensible view the New Democratic Party brass is finally taking towards a nasty faction within party ranks that is known for its dangerously creepy antipathies towards Israel, its inestimably high opinion of itself, its loathing of NDP leader Thomas Mulcair and its habit of uttering threats to make a scene whenever the NDP leadership refuses to be its megaphone.

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At the moment, the faction is staging an especially grotesque public uproar, ostensibly over NDP HQ’s decision last month to bar party activist Paul Manly from the contest for the Nanaimo-Ladysmith NDP candidacy.

The backdrop to Manly’s vetting-out is a loopy 2012 tirade Manly engaged in while his eccentric father was making a nuisance and a spectacle of himself in one of those useless and dangerous “Gaza flotilla” escapades that were so avant-garde at the time. But it’s not just that. What is especially dangerous about Manly to the NDP brass is that, like the congenitally disaffected bellyachers who have now risen to his defence, Manly still doesn’t seem to grasp the loopiness of his 2012 outburst.