It's not JUST the leader. There's an urgent need for the establishment of internal party democracy, and it is essential that the rank-and-file have control over what goes into the platform and the policy book. Since 1961 as a certainty, and perhaps from the beginning(I don't know how policy decisions were made in the CCF era), the party has been run by a cynical, dismissive internal party bureaucracy whose guiding principle has always been that the rank-and-file are idiots who should never have any real say in what the party is about. Since 1961, this approach has almost always kept the party in third place. It did massive damage in the 1960s and 1970s, when the party refused to engage with the New Left, and has done more of the same in the post-WTO era, keeping the party at arms-length from the only people in left-of-centre politics with any new ideas and any real enthusiasm for working for change. This notion that the NDP has to be kind of grumpily dismissive of idealism and transformative politics hasn't done the party any good-there simply is not any large group of people who WANT a break from the status quo, but sneer at most of the people working for such a break. Why not just admit that activists are not the enemy, that open discussion is not the enemy, that passion and enthusiasm are not the enemies?..singh doesn't run the party no more than mulcair did. the problems that the ndp faces lies much deeper than the leader. people on this board having been talking about those problems for years with no resolution in sight.
..blaming the leader without dealing with those deeper issues is a dead end. not to mention that it provides the false notion that all you need is the "right leader". more was needed than just corbyn and as we see today corbyn is not enough.
..a problem in search of a solution. as it has been for years. where is the path to something different?