Looks like I'll be voting NDP in the upcoming British Columbia elections. I had some qualms about backing the NDP or my party of choice, the Greens, especially when it appeared the NDP already have this election in the bag.
Problem solved. The Greens aren't fielding a candidate in my riding. They're contesting 58 of the 85 ridings and mine isn't one of them. I'm hoping the Greens have stood down to avoid undermining the NDP's chances of ousting the Liberals in a riding that The Tyee has concluded is "too close to call."
Oh well the Liberals and Christy Clark have to go but I'm not wildly enthusiastic about the New Dems. Adrian Dix seems like a decent enough fellow but experience shows that doesn't cut much ice within the rough and tumble internal politics of the B.C. NDP. Mike Harcourt was a thoroughly decent fellow and a good premier in his turn. Yet he got toppled, stabbed in the back, by British Columbia's last NDP premier, another Clark, Glenn Clark. And it was Glenn Clark who almost single-handedly delivered Gordon Campbell's conservative Liberals a massive sweep to power.
I've listened to what Adrian Dix has had to say on the campaign trail and I think he's ready to govern my province. I'm still left in doubt about whether he's strong enough to govern his party.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Sunday, March 03, 2013
British Columbia's Tumblin' Crispy Christy Clark
British Columbia's unelected, unelectable and outgoing premier, Crispy Christy Clark, was nudged ever closer to the exit today - by her own party members.
More than a hundred BC Libs met in Surrey this morning to demand Clark resign to let somebody else, presumably almost anybody, lead the government party into the May election. It's hard to imagine how a change at the top could do the party much good at this point.
Recent polls find 59% of respondents favouring a change of government versus just 24% still supporting the BC Libs. Worse still, over 70% of respondents believe the latest "balanced budget" was a scam designed to cloak an actual deficit.
Some think that a real contender might be willing to step in at this point to revive the BC Libs' fortunes before the poll but it's hard to imagine anyone with ambitions for the future being willing to "step in" to the mess Christy Clark and her advisers have left on the floor.
Clark has summoned a meeting of her cabinet this afternoon. No word yet in which bunker they'll convene.
More than a hundred BC Libs met in Surrey this morning to demand Clark resign to let somebody else, presumably almost anybody, lead the government party into the May election. It's hard to imagine how a change at the top could do the party much good at this point.
Recent polls find 59% of respondents favouring a change of government versus just 24% still supporting the BC Libs. Worse still, over 70% of respondents believe the latest "balanced budget" was a scam designed to cloak an actual deficit.
Some think that a real contender might be willing to step in at this point to revive the BC Libs' fortunes before the poll but it's hard to imagine anyone with ambitions for the future being willing to "step in" to the mess Christy Clark and her advisers have left on the floor.
Clark has summoned a meeting of her cabinet this afternoon. No word yet in which bunker they'll convene.
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