Among decided and leaning voters, the BC Conservatives lead the BC NDP by just under 8 points, 44.7% to 37.2% with the Green at 11.2%, One BC at 5.7% and Centre BC Party at 1.1% rounding out the field.
Looks like malpractice.
Among decided and leaning voters, the BC Conservatives lead the BC NDP by just under 8 points, 44.7% to 37.2% with the Green at 11.2%, One BC at 5.7% and Centre BC Party at 1.1% rounding out the field.
Looks like malpractice.
I think the move to call an election wasn’t fully thought out, but who wouldn’t call an election when your opponent’s side is imploding? But hindsight 20/20. The messaging from Eby is poor from day 1 of his tenure as premier. The things he proposed should have been announced even without the ‘threat’ of an election.
That being said, 9 years of straight NDP isn’t going to magically fix 16 years straight of BC Liberal policies and spending. It’s easier to spend/sell assets than save/generate wealth. It certainly didn’t help with COVID in there alongside a trade war. BC Liberals effectively bankrupted BC.
But sure, let’s vote for the BC Libs/Cons for more tax breaks…that will fix the budget! Somehow their words speak louder than their actions…
meh I’ve already heard that sort of statement a whole bunch, and personally don’t give a shit anymore.
The BC Liberals were a corrupt, shitty party. That doesn’t mean the NDP deserve support, especially as they’ve made a bunch of gaffs lately, and have generally done a poor job at managing various parts of the provincial portfolio. Lots of people myself included, are sick of voting for “the lesser of two shitty options” – the NDP ought to be putting out things that make people want to follow them / elect them. Their approach to this election call does the exact opposite, and runs a high risk of passing control of the government over to the Conservatives YEARS earlier than they had to. And at a time when such a hand over could cause serious damage, given what’s going on in Alberta, the USA’s new regime/international aggression, etc.
They could’ve waited till like 2028? 2029? Hell, even if Eby had waited until the various fringe parties had ‘settled’, so that the vote split on the right was more assured, they’d have a better shot at maintaining power in a FPTP system. With all that time they could’ve had, they could’ve worked on setting up proportional representation – something that a splintered right-wing would likely be more agreeable to, and which would encourage better governance going forward.
We get Eby taking a huge risk with a stupid election call at a stupid time. Like a ship entering a dangerous arctic passageway, suddenly declaring they need to elect a new captain mid voyage, it’s just ridiculous and reckless. Or, sitting down at a restaurant and the waiter brings you a plate of moldy food – and defends it as the “best option” because the other meals are literal piles of feces. Fuck telling people to vote to eat the mold – tell the restaurant to do better. Personally, I’m voting green this time around, largely because fuck the other two parties – even if there are a bunch of things in the green platform I don’t like.
I disagree. The timing is perfect if you’re looking to capitalize on the same anti-conservative/anti-maple-maga sentiment that kept the NDP in power in Oct of 2024.
That’s an absolutely shit take on the situation.
Like in two fucking years, when we would’ve had the regularly scheduled election, you would’ve had a heavily segmented/divided right – the two splinter parties that have formed haven’t had enough time to really disrupt the regular right-wing base, and aren’t in enough ridings to matter much. Right-wing voters will have an easy time ‘rallying’ because there’s only one right-wing party that can actually form government.
But even more, in two years time you’d, “theoretically” at least, have either a positive progressive wave to ride with the defeat of Trump in America, or you’d have an even bigger protest-type movement to rally against from the sane part of the spectrum.
THAT would have been a perfectly fine time for an election, and likely would’ve turned out fine for the NDP. If they’d managed to turn around their current shit show in those two years too, they would’ve been sitting pretty. With Carney’s “Major Projects” shit and all the federal investment, the NDP could’ve leveraged all that investment and spun it as partially their success. But no, instead, let’s call a fucking election when mills are fucking closing – that’ll win us some votes! Fucking moronic.
So now, we have predictions like this on 338Canada – a 75% chance at the present, based on an aggregate of polling sites, of a Conservative fucking majority.
So yay. Currently a 75% chance that we’ll have a conservative party majority. A conservative party that’s staffed up with Alberta separatists still from Findley’s manipulations. A conservative party that’s likely to be a LOT more agreeable to Trumpian bullshit, and which will likely support Alberta’s separatist aims.
Perfect huh. That’s your idea of perfect. Brilliant.
Fucking well said. This mfker decided to basically hand over power to the cons and people (am in Ontario so not me) are supposed to wipe his ass? Well he can do a whole lotta shit that “isn’t as bad as the cons” and expect people to support him, can’t he. It’s not like there weren’t polls showing early election would likely put cons on top. So he’s either rowing for the cons or stupid. I’d probably still vote for him if I were in BC to nerf the cons but I cannot blame people who don’t. Supporting mediocrity to avoid the worse outcome is how we got where we are in a whole lotta places.
Ahhh that explains it. As per my other reply those poll numbers don’t reflect the political landscape of BC at all.
I mean, I hope you’re right. BC has been a potential “remigration” target for us.