Jack Milroy
@j-stor.bsky.social
Aspiring recovered politico.
Currently political consultant, fundraiser, strategist for progressives and the labour movement.
Former ALP, NDP, Vision Vancouver.
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Currently political consultant, fundraiser, strategist for progressives and the labour movement.
Former ALP, NDP, Vision Vancouver.
🇨🇦🇦🇺
Blue Labour is basically a scam designed to give people a safe space to hide from how much the world has changed.
Certain Blue Labour backbenchers seem happy to publicly attack higher education, saying Britain needs vocational roles instead.
But what did they choose for themselves? Elite higher education, of course.
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-i...
But what did they choose for themselves? Elite higher education, of course.
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-i...
May 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Blue Labour is basically a scam designed to give people a safe space to hide from how much the world has changed.
Thai is how you kill a health service. Create fiefdoms. Set them against each other for finite resources. Enable blame shifting.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith shuffles cabinet. Alberta Health Services split into four pillars, and each health service has been assigned its own minister, by @liamnewbigging.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Thai is how you kill a health service. Create fiefdoms. Set them against each other for finite resources. Enable blame shifting.
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From record numbers joining local Indivisible chapters, to hashtag#HandsOff and Fight Oligarchy rallies -- we’re seeing an inspiring upsurge in local civic events.
What Matters Most is What Comes Next
The image below depicts what that can look like.
What Matters Most is What Comes Next
The image below depicts what that can look like.
April 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
From record numbers joining local Indivisible chapters, to hashtag#HandsOff and Fight Oligarchy rallies -- we’re seeing an inspiring upsurge in local civic events.
What Matters Most is What Comes Next
The image below depicts what that can look like.
What Matters Most is What Comes Next
The image below depicts what that can look like.
OrangeBubble: an online resistance t-shirt store! It’s what the Federal NDP did when they stopped pretending to be a serious political party. #cdnpoli
April 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
OrangeBubble: an online resistance t-shirt store! It’s what the Federal NDP did when they stopped pretending to be a serious political party. #cdnpoli
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One of the big problems that modern democracies face is bad faith actors / grifters like Yanis playing to the peanut gallery.
Let’s make this simple. She was found guilty after a multi-year investigation and was punished in line with a law she voted in favor of.
Let’s make this simple. She was found guilty after a multi-year investigation and was punished in line with a law she voted in favor of.
Marine Le Pen election ban is ludicrous unherd.com/newsroom/yan...
Yanis Varoufakis: Marine Le Pen election ban is ludicrous
The conviction of Marine Le Pen is the latest stage of Europe’s “descent into the abyss of totalitarianism”, according to former Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. Earlier today, the Rassemblem...
unherd.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
One of the big problems that modern democracies face is bad faith actors / grifters like Yanis playing to the peanut gallery.
Let’s make this simple. She was found guilty after a multi-year investigation and was punished in line with a law she voted in favor of.
Let’s make this simple. She was found guilty after a multi-year investigation and was punished in line with a law she voted in favor of.
In the absence of an NDP that is transformative I’m supporting the Liberals. Given the US threat, it’s more important to me to have a coherent national response put by a party that can actually win an election, than to have a marginally better platform put by a party that is bad at politics.
What I’d like to see the NDP talk more about and focus on:
1. Industrial policy, especially now
2. Building an economy where enterprises are increasingly owned and controlled by workers (related to 1)
3. Building things (which workers like to do, related to 1 and 2)
1. Industrial policy, especially now
2. Building an economy where enterprises are increasingly owned and controlled by workers (related to 1)
3. Building things (which workers like to do, related to 1 and 2)
March 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In the absence of an NDP that is transformative I’m supporting the Liberals. Given the US threat, it’s more important to me to have a coherent national response put by a party that can actually win an election, than to have a marginally better platform put by a party that is bad at politics.
This guy would have slapped as NDP leader.
My last official photo.
I have been honoured to serve people for 21 years.
I am not going off into the sunset.
Steve Earle rings in my ears,
"The revolution starts now in your own hometown. What are you doing standing around?Follow your heart. The revolution starts now."
#resistance #elbowsup
I have been honoured to serve people for 21 years.
I am not going off into the sunset.
Steve Earle rings in my ears,
"The revolution starts now in your own hometown. What are you doing standing around?Follow your heart. The revolution starts now."
#resistance #elbowsup
March 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This guy would have slapped as NDP leader.
In this moment Doug Ford is doing what most political leaders have neither the courage or the imagination to do. He’s still bad overall, but right now I’m glad he’s there.
To his immense credit, Doug Ford has taken a big step toward hitting back at Trump while building supports for Ontarians, @davidmoscrop.com writes. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...
Doug Ford has a plan to hit Trump hard. And it’s good.
Ford has laid out a plan to hit the United States hard in response to Trump’s attack on Canada’s economy and sovereignty. You could write a book about Ford’s failures — but his approach to dealing wit...
www.nationalobserver.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In this moment Doug Ford is doing what most political leaders have neither the courage or the imagination to do. He’s still bad overall, but right now I’m glad he’s there.
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ELBOWS UP, CANADA!
March 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
ELBOWS UP, CANADA!
The Australian election will be fought on a security frame. Ballot box question -which leader will make people feel safe in a scary world? The ALP has been trying to shape the election to be fought on Medicare. But with everything happening in the world in the last few days, that’s unlikely. #auspol
March 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Australian election will be fought on a security frame. Ballot box question -which leader will make people feel safe in a scary world? The ALP has been trying to shape the election to be fought on Medicare. But with everything happening in the world in the last few days, that’s unlikely. #auspol
Genuinely the best political skills of any politican since Obama.
Another sentiment check on our neighbors to the North
torontosun.com/news/provinc...
torontosun.com/news/provinc...
March 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Genuinely the best political skills of any politican since Obama.
The NDP and aligned Left parties like Québec solidaire are collapsing everywhere outside of Western Canada as people park with traditional centre-left liberals or mainstream conservatives. If you arent considered a serous party of government people dont want a bar of you right now. #cdnpoli
Quebec Provincial Polling:
PQ: 32% (+17)
PLQ: 22% (+8)
CAQ: 20% (-21)
PCQ: 15% (+2)
QS: 10% (-5)
Pallas Data / March 1, 2025 / n=1120 / MOE 3% / IVR
(% Change With 2022 Election)
Check out QC details from @338canada.bsky.social here: 338canada.com/quebec
PQ: 32% (+17)
PLQ: 22% (+8)
CAQ: 20% (-21)
PCQ: 15% (+2)
QS: 10% (-5)
Pallas Data / March 1, 2025 / n=1120 / MOE 3% / IVR
(% Change With 2022 Election)
Check out QC details from @338canada.bsky.social here: 338canada.com/quebec
March 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The NDP and aligned Left parties like Québec solidaire are collapsing everywhere outside of Western Canada as people park with traditional centre-left liberals or mainstream conservatives. If you arent considered a serous party of government people dont want a bar of you right now. #cdnpoli
We also have to acknowledge that the Boomer generation (the previous generation mentioned) do not see it as their responsibility to provide the same caregiving that their parents provided to them when they had kids.
March 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We also have to acknowledge that the Boomer generation (the previous generation mentioned) do not see it as their responsibility to provide the same caregiving that their parents provided to them when they had kids.
I love this because SNL is spiritually reliant on Canada and Canadian comics.
March 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I love this because SNL is spiritually reliant on Canada and Canadian comics.
What the fuck does this mean?
Personally, I have been opposed to the war in Ukraine from the beginning, and wanted a quick negotiated end to it and a ceasefire, but it is perfectly possible to hold those views without being openly pro Russia, and anti Ukraine, or parroting Putin talking points. Sheesh.
March 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
What the fuck does this mean?
No opposition party in Ontario has anything to celebrate. They both got thumped by Ford. Their reactions are pure cope. Elections have binary outcomes - you win or you fail. Only a party that isn’t a serious party of government takes any solace in a loss where they lose vote and seat share. #cdnpoli
NEW COLUMN: Doug Ford proved that his opposition is worthless. Marit Stiles and Bonnie Crombie gleefully celebrate failure. If they stay in charge of the left, be prepared for thirty more years of Premier Ford. www.jakelandau.ca/p/doug-ford-...
Doug Ford proves his opposition worthless.
Why do the Liberals and the NDP even exist?
www.jakelandau.ca
February 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
No opposition party in Ontario has anything to celebrate. They both got thumped by Ford. Their reactions are pure cope. Elections have binary outcomes - you win or you fail. Only a party that isn’t a serious party of government takes any solace in a loss where they lose vote and seat share. #cdnpoli
The only measure of success for a political party in an election is if they formed government. You don’t get to set your own goalposts. You either won or you failed. #onpoli
February 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The only measure of success for a political party in an election is if they formed government. You don’t get to set your own goalposts. You either won or you failed. #onpoli
If the Liberal Party wakes up to international trends where conservative parties tack economically populist but remain socially conservative, the ALP is in for a world of hurt over the next decade. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Coalition to match ‘dollar for dollar’ Labor’s plan to make GP visits cheaper in $8.5bn Medicare boost
Less than half of Australians were always bulk billed when they saw a GP in 2023-24, government data says
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If the Liberal Party wakes up to international trends where conservative parties tack economically populist but remain socially conservative, the ALP is in for a world of hurt over the next decade. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I don’t think most Canadians realize how much of their mass culture is actually just American culture. It probably hasn’t always been like this. But in the almost 20 years I’ve been there it has gotten worse and worse. When I go back to Australia I really notice the difference.
It’s been unsettling of late to realize how hard it is, as a Canadian, to decrease reliance on American culture.
February 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I don’t think most Canadians realize how much of their mass culture is actually just American culture. It probably hasn’t always been like this. But in the almost 20 years I’ve been there it has gotten worse and worse. When I go back to Australia I really notice the difference.
Tasmania appears to be in a downward spiral. We’ve just lost another private hospital, this time maternity services. We do need a second public hospital in Hobart but this continuing trend of the private sector pulling out of the state is really scary.
#politas
#politas
February 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Tasmania appears to be in a downward spiral. We’ve just lost another private hospital, this time maternity services. We do need a second public hospital in Hobart but this continuing trend of the private sector pulling out of the state is really scary.
#politas
#politas
*Record scratch. Freeze frame.*
You might be wondering how we got here…
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
You might be wondering how we got here…
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM
The ABC can reveal the results of YouGov's latest MRP model, which finds the Peter Dutton-led Coalition would be likely to win about 73 seats if an election was held today.
www.abc.net.au
February 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
*Record scratch. Freeze frame.*
You might be wondering how we got here…
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
You might be wondering how we got here…
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...