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BC NDP Leadership
Sat, 2017-05-13 13:31
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BC NDP Leadership
Sat, 2017-05-13 13:34
#2
Vancouver MP says John Horgan deserves second chance if B.C. NDP fails to regain power
http://www.straight.com/news/909011/vancouver-mp-says-john-horgan-deserv...
Sun, 2017-05-14 10:32
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B.C. on the cusp of a better kind of ‘different’:
Decisions made in the next two to three years will impact a generation of British Columbians. The wrong ones will underline how sadly “different” B.C.’s very provincial political culture remains.
David Barrett, the first social democratic premier of B.C., used to stun international political allies observing that B.C. was the only multi-party democracy where the left could win 49 per cent of the vote and lose.
The B.C. NDP has been less successful than other provincial parties — most notably Manitoba and Saskatchewan — in holding together a progressive coalition on the other side. It has bled forestry and building trade workers to the right, environmentalists to the left, and new Canadians to both sides, since the 1970s. The deep fissures of the province’s politics, reflected in its feuding clans, make these tough political divides for any B.C. NDP leader to bridge.
But bridge and build John Horgan must now do. If he is determined to seize the opportunity that B.C. voters delivered last week — a deeply wounded party and premier — he will. He needs to persuade the oleaginous Andrew Weaver that his political bread is not buttered red and B.C. voters that the time for a real change has really come. If he shows he has the skills to deliver that vision, B.C. will have a short fractious second-term Christy Clark government followed by their burial in a rerun.
If Horgan allows his caucus and party to revert to partisan form, lashing out to left and right against Greens and Liberals — and non-believers inside and out — his will be a short fractious second term as leader.
There is much to play for. Decisions made in the next two to three years will impact a generation of British Columbians. The wrong ones will underline how sadly “different” B.C.’s very provincial political culture remains.
A demonstration of progressive coalition building leadership by the almost-B. C. premier could deliver him the job. It could also help deliver the province a united and world-leading government: environmentally courageous, happily socially inclusive, securely grounded in a technology-centred, post “rocks and logs” economy.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/14/bc-on-the-cusp-of-...
Sun, 2017-05-14 10:41
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Chaos is a ladder
Sun, 2017-05-14 10:44
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It’s a new day in B.C.
Sun, 2017-05-14 10:55
#6
Rest up, gather your people, stay organized
Sun, 2017-05-14 11:05
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Sun, 2017-05-14 11:05
#8
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Wed, 2017-05-17 08:08
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Vancouver MP says John Horgan deserves second chance if B.C. NDP fails to regain power
http://www.straight.com/news/909011/vancouver-mp-says-john-horgan-deserv...
I dunno about that, after 16 years of Liberal rule and all the shenanagins Horgan increased the NDP popular vote from 39.71% to 39.85%. That is nothing to be proud of. This was the 5th election in a row NDP did not win and sixth popular vote in a row they lost. If it was not for the BC Reform splitting the vote with libs in 96 and if BC Reform would of merged with Libs before that election instead of after the NDP would of been lucky to win 15 seats that year.
The NDP in Canada seems tainted. I thought last ontario election the NDP in Ontario would of done way better yet they re elect libs, I guess the Rae years are still a memory like the 90's myth in BC, they are in shambles in Sask and Manitoba, will not win again for ages in Nova Scotia, Notley is gone and wil be lucky to have 10 seats in two years, In BC if libs replace Christy with say Dianne Watts the liberals are assured of another generation of power not mention most of Surrey would go liberal....federally they are done until the libs get another unpopular Ignatiuf type...I dunno what they can do anymore the future looks bleak at least for another generation...
Wed, 2017-05-17 09:55
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I dunno about that, after 16 years of Liberal rule and all the shenanagins Horgan increased the NDP popular vote from 39.71% to 39.85%. That is nothing to be proud of.
In last year's federal election Justin Trudeau won 39% of the popular. I guess that makes him an electoral failure who should resign for the good of his party. In the 2014 Ontario election kathleen Wynne led the Liberals to 39% of the vote and a majority government - should she has resigned on election night because she ONLY got 39% and that makes her an electoral failure?
I think the BC NDP did remarkably well to get 40% of the vote despite the Greens siphoning off 16% of the vote most of which would have gone NDP had the Liberals not set up the Greens as a fake progressive party to try to split the progressive vote. There is a very good chance John Horgan will become premier of BC once the final votes are in. Its also notable that the NDP swept the Lower Mainland where all the population growth is concentrated while the Liberals are increasingly becoming a rump party of depopulated interior areas plus a few very wealthy vancouver seats