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Do I still have to say people everywhere are fed up with overly scripted mainstream consensus politics after Brexit and Trump? And Ford and others decked out in mammoth skins by the commentariat including Jason Kenney, who plays a convincing outsider on TV? And Scheer heads for the tall grass now?

People everywhere are fed up with overly scripted mainstream consensus politics

Jerry Dias of Unifor, to rebut claims his union is too biased to help Justin Trudeau hand out millions in media subsidies, just called Scheer “Canada’s anti-progressive, media-bashing ‘Trump in the North.’ ” But while the Tory leader was once genuinely conservative, what has he not since surrendered for illusory political advantage?

The short pants brigade whispered that social conservatism is yucky so he backed away fast. On foreign policy he grunts and growls but has no plan to reinvigorate the military. On economics, the last ditch for fractious conservatives, he’s for supply management and against balanced budgets. And has the best plan ever to stop global warming although it’s blank. Rah Rah Team Blue.

Perhaps Scheer was ideologically doomed from the moment he made that sleazy deal with the milk cartel to win the Tory leadership; as Louis L’Amour wrote in Flint, “If a man starts to run, there’s nothing to do but keep running.” (He didn’t mean for office.) But if ever there were a time when an unprincipled politician should want to look principled, and an evasive one to sound blunt, it’s now.

If a man starts to run, there’s nothing to do but keep running Author Louis L’Amour

Britain’s Boris Johnson, who the smart set are trying to fit into a clown suit, just wrote bluntly in The Daily Telegraph that in the EU election voters delivered “a crushing rebuke to the Government — in fact, to both major parties. I cannot find it in my heart to blame them. They gave us one chief task: to deliver Brexit” and “We have … broken promise after promise … If we go on like this, we will be fired … ”