Bill Kelly: More insinuations than a glimpse in Patrick Brown's book – Hamilton

If the new book by Patrick Brown, Takedown: The attempted political badbadination of Patrick Brown, was supposed to clarify the rapid rise and rapid demise of his leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, he is missing the goal.

Brown's version of the story is more an insinuation than a glimpse.

According to Brown's description, the problems under his supervision were the fault of unfair or incompetent advisers and members of the caucus.

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Brown had particularly tough words for two prominent PCs, Vic Fedeli and Lisa MacLeod. He claims that Fedeli dodged the ball of allegations of badual misconduct shortly before similar allegations against Brown ignited the barrel of powder that blew up his leadership.

He says that the PC caucus displeased and disrespected MacLeod and implied that she had been told that she was pretending to do so when she complained about mental health issues. .

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None of these allegations are supported by evidence and only seem to be gossip from Queen's Park. Frankly, there are not enough bookstores in Indigo bookstores to contain volumes that could be written on unfounded political gossip.

However, Brown's claim that he was the victim of a coup d'état organized seems quite plausible.

But given the internal conflicts and unrest described while Brown was the head of the PC, it seems likely that Brown's political badbadination resembles that of Agatha Christie. Murder at the Orient Express, where every discontent caucus member took a turn plunging the knife into the despised victim.

Bill Kelly is the host of Bill Kelly's broadcast on Global News Radio 900 CHML