Prime Minister Jack Layton

The latest EKOS poll is showing the NDP as the official opposition in waiting. Though it almost certainly won't happen, and though it may give the odious Conservatives their coveted majority, a message has been sent.

If we are often cattle, sometimes we are not. When the banks screw the economy, stick us with the bill and then lecture us on financial probity because we went into debt paying it, we might get pissed. When our political masters would rather send the children of the poor to prison than university then we might ask about putting them in prisons for their very real crimes and vote for those who, at least in the misty past, described themselves as socialists.

Way to go, Jack!