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At a Tuesday-morning Dump Tom Mulcair press conference in midtown Toronto, Barry Weisleder, chairperson of the NDP Socialist Caucus and candidate for party president at next month’s convention in Edmonton, warmed up the sparse crowd with a joke.

“How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?”

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“One, but it has to want to change.”

Weisleder then asked if anyone else had any jokes, which seemed risky in a (small) room full of (about 10) socialists. After an awkward protracted silence, John McNamee, the caucus’s candidate for party treasurer, attempted the one about elephants and the constitutional division of powers. He couldn’t really remember it.

I thought of reading aloud from @corbynjokes. NDP socialists love far-left British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (they’re very much feeling the Bern too):

Q: What was the computer’s New Year’s resolution?

A: The obsolescence of the working class in the service of capitalism.