People power is back. Just not in Britain. Any thoughts?

Throughout Europe, in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and France we have seen the rise of parties which listen to voters' concerns about immigration, taxes and health care provision. The discontent with the establishment has spread to Justin Trudeau's Canada.

Ontario, the country's most populous province, has just elected Doug Ford, brother of the late and controversial former premier Rob Ford. Doug won a majority government in a show of strength for what the Guardian bitterly describes as 'the divisive wedge politics that have rattled much of the world'.

Doug Ford has long been a controversial figure in Canada, and does little to hide his opinions. During his one term as a Toronto city councillor he refused to attend the city's Pride parade - describing it as 'middle-aged men, with pot bellies, running down the street buck naked'.

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Why did that flake guy say he wanted an FBI investigation?

Can't he see that he's playing right into the democrats hands. This is nothing but a smear and ford is a liar. I think what she explained happened to her but she's clearly lying about it being kavanaugh she has a very selective memory and more holes in her story than a slice of Swiss cheese whereas, Kavanaugh has a calendar detailing his movements at the time, All witnesses are deny all knowledge of the event including fords best friend at the time. It's just absolutely insane does he not realise that when you give these zealots an inch they'll take a mile.

Can you list the facts that makes Dr Ford's claim creditable?

Here's a list of items that make her claim questionable.

- The Senate Judiciary Committee ( Less the Democrats, who for some reason refused to participate) have been investigating for a week.

- The 4 witnesses Dr Ford named have all been contacted by the committee and provided official statements that they have no knowledge of any such party, never saw any such event, or even knowing Kavanaugh.

- Dr Ford can't remember the location ( the house or who's house it was )
- Dr Ford can't remember when ( Not even the year )
- Dr Ford has repeatedly delayed giving her story to the Committee
- Dr Ford has so far refused to provide an official statement to the Committee
- Dr Ford has completely scrubbed her online presence
- There's zero physical evidence
- Diane Feinstein sat on this information for 2 months

- Democrats said she deserves to testify. The White House and GOP Members of committee have all agreed. They have bent over backwards to accommodate her in any way she feels most comfortable. Then Democrats ( Hillibrand, others ) decide that she should not testify in a ' sham ' hearing

- Now she's ' tentatively ' scheduled to appear, but ' details ' need to be worked out. Including who gets to question her. Why would that matter if she's being truthful?

4th purported witness says ' no knowledge ' of any such assault. Still credible in your eyes?

N an email to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday, Leland Ingham Keyser, a former classmate of Ford's at the Holton-Arms all-girls school in Maryland, said she doesn't know Kavanaugh or remember being at the party with him.

"Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford," lawyer Howard J. Walsh III of Bethesda, Md., conveyed in an email to the committee