If Nunziata had just shown up with his handful of supporters, gotten his face in front of the cameras, and then left with whatever dignity he brought in with him, that would have been one thing. But heckling Tobin, yelling at Tonks' supporters, and rushing to the dance floor when the Liberal candidate took the microphone to sing a song was quite another. Very occasionally, there are independent candidates who actually offer something to their ridings and to Parliament - but Nunziata, as he made clear this week, isn't one of them. Every time he pulls a stunt like this one, he simply makes himself a laughingstock - and he makes the Liberals look all the wiser for not taking him back, even when he begged them to do so. Apparently, that observation was recently made by one of his constituents, who contacted Mills' campaign with the very question of why he had not switched parties.
Mills clearly needs to do two things.
First, he should get better campaign workers. And secondly, he must ask himself the fundamental question of whether or not he is being intellectually and ideologically honest with voters.