Knitting

A fine cartoon appeared in the Globe and Mail a night or two after the English debate of the Canadian party leaders. Obviously, the viewers in the pub found the debate boring. 

The cartoon evoked a response from a reader:

Re The Knitting Channel (Editorial Cartoon, Sept. 10): Who is The Globe and Mail calling boring? We knitters take offence that our craft was used as a foil for a perceived lack of interest in the debate. Perhaps if the leaders stuck to their knitting, we’d all be in a better place! (Joe Schwarz Penticton, B.C.)

Indeed! During the debate M. Blanchet urged his Anglophone counterparts to stick to their knitting and not interfere in Quebec politics. Mr. O' Tool  is knitting his brow as he tries to stitch the extremes of his party together, and the Greens are certainly not a close-knit group. Mr. Singh is constantly needling his opponents, and Justin Trudeau has certainly dropped a stitch or two.

For other idioms and metaphors, see Nautical Metaphors and It's Not Cricket.