Laila Has Left The Building.

PerhapsTheBestThereEverWas
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It was hard not to notice that Laila Yuile was spending less time blogging over the last year or so.

Well...

It turns out that now she has decided to call it quits for good:

After so many months of not blogging, it feels weird to be even drafting a new post-it doesn’t flow smoothly and after several attempts this is how I’ll just start: a response to an email….

“Hey Laila, why don’t you blog anymore?

Because I’m tired…tired of preaching to the choir.

Because I still believe that in politics its important to do what is right…not just what’s politically expedient ( hey Trudeau, that includes you- you never mentioned real change only referred to your socks..)

Because that isn’t what’s happening right now.

Because I see too many on the left still willing to turn a blind eye to the failings of their own parties-we expect it from the right,show how you are different.

Because that last reason is exactly how and why the BC Libs became so arrogant and corrupt...

{snip}

...Because I feel like after a decade of blogging and columns I couldn’t make a dent in the adversarial, toxicly partisan nature of politics that makes people tune out and not vote.

Because most people still fail to understand their vote is tremendously powerful and the only way to stop the Trumps & Fords of this world.

Because it isn’t that I stopped caring,but cared so much about all of this that it made me sick.

Because everyone has a limit…and I finally reached mine…


Laila will be greatly missed.

And she should never, ever think that she didn't both raise the level of discourse and move the needle significantly in #BCPoli.

Because she did, big time.

OK?


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One of my favourite battling Laila stories from the salad days of RailGate, which also included her then partner in crime-stopping GAB, can be found...Here.



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