It's April Fool's Day, and
everyone is getting in on the practical jokes-- even politicians.
A news
release from the NDP arriving in our inbox overnight spoke of the expulsion of
NDP leader Dominic Cardy and Kelly Lamrock, touting it as the final step
following an unprincipled public attack upon the party and the building of
socialism.
The release also speaks of how socialism has defeated Cardy
and Lamrock as it defeated other petty bourgeois tendencies in the revolutionary
movement.
Another prank unfolding on Twitter had a stadium going up on
Partridge Island generating outrage from a few who got fooled. saying it was
heritage site and should be protected. It even includes a picture of how it
might look adding to the legitimacy.
Graeme Stewart-Robinson has admitted
it was his idea describing it as the least controversial of his photo-shopped
April Fool's Day ideas.