British Columbia NDP Majority Government 2024-(no later than) 2029

[RangerRay]

I remember hearing someone from the Chreitien era Liberals was trying to revive the BC Liberals as a regular Liberal party instead of the mishmash of Liberal in name, conservative in policy.

That will probably be a fight. AFAIK, BC United and Kevin Falcon still own that name (they still exist!) and I’m sure they won’t give it up lightly.

 

[brihard]

Out of the ashes blowing from the dumpster fire, British Columbia is getting a new provincial party that will start out with five seats in the legislature.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2095880003099721929

 

[Maxman1]

They're not going to revive the Social Credit, are they?

 

[dapaterson]

They're not going to revive the Social Credit, are they?

I'm just waiting for one of them to change their name to Amor de Cosmos.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Progressive Conservatives of BC (PCBC) Have it made up of Centre right folks and it will start to eat away at NDP support. Let the other Conservative party take in the more right wing types that need a home. Try not to fight each other more than the NDP.

 

[brihard]

Progressive Conservatives of BC (PCBC) Have it made up of Centre right folks and it will start to eat away at NDP support. Let the other Conservative party take in the more right wing types that need a home. Try not to fight each other more than the NDP.

Is Centre BC relevant at all, or are they likely to get their lunch eaten by this?

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Is Centre BC relevant at all, or are they likely to get their lunch eaten by this?

I describe the average Canadian as like a slightly drunk person walking down a road, they follow the centre line and weave a little left and little right, but try to stay out of the ditches on either side. I think a centre right party would capture a lot of the unaligned voters who are willing to change who they vote for, election to election. The hardcore left and right will stick to their further from the centre parties.

 

[brihard]

I describe the average Canadian as like a slightly drunk person walking down a road, they follow the centre line and weave a little left and little right, but try to stay out of the ditches on either side. I think a centre right party would capture a lot of the unaligned voters who are willing to change who they vote for, election to election. The hardcore left and right will stick to their further from the centre parties.

Right- but does Centre BC have a viable chance of electing MLAs? And does a split to the centre from the BC Conservatives threaten that?

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Right- but does Centre BC have a viable chance of electing MLAs? And does a split to the centre from the BC Conservatives threaten that?

I think it does, the "Right" covers far to much ground form a political point of view, leading to this repeated schisms. Better to have more than one party on the right, so people can attach themselves to the party that bet suits them. The key is to make sure you don't treat the other party as more of the enemy than the left wing parties.

 

[Infanteer]

Right- but does Centre BC have a viable chance of electing MLAs? And does a split to the centre from the BC Conservatives threaten that?

Yes. For a couple decades, the Liberal Party of BC was the natural home for centrist voters and secured multiple majorities in the province. The BC Conservative party was a fringe party until the collapse of the Liberal Party a few years back in part due to the unpopularity of Trudeau's federal brand.

Point being, this could fill that space, with the Conservative party returning to its fringe where its leader Findlay seems interested in taking it.

 

[RangerRay]

The free-enterprise vote will tolerate sleaze and cronyism, but not kooky ideological extremism. A business-friendly, socially moderate party with the backing of Howe Street usually does well in B.C., if they can get their together.

I get the impression that Centre BC may have had a chance to be that vehicle, but now that Milobar’s project is starting out with 5 MLAs in the Leg and if they can keep their party from turning into a clown car, they might have a better shot of forming a credible opposition.

 

[daftandbarmy]

One more joining the colours...

B.C. MLA Wilson becomes 7th to join Peter Milobar’s new party​

Boundary-Similkameen MLA Donegal Wilson is joining Peter Milobar’s new political party, becoming the seventh former B.C. Conservative to join his emerging centre-right coalition.

Wilson said she left the Conservatives because she no longer supported leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay, who took the helm on May 30 after winning a razor-thin majority on the fourth ballot of member voting at a leadership convention. Wilson quit the caucus on Sept. 2.

“I said then that I was leaving a caucus, not my principles, and that has not changed,” she said in a Monday statement announcing her intent to join Milobar. “I did not intend to join another party, but what has become clear is that this new party is a group of people who are willing to put in the work and deliver on what British Columbians need in 2026.”

B.C. MLA Wilson becomes 7th to join Peter Milobar's new party - Chilliwack Progress

That makes seven of the nine MLAs who quit the Conservatives dissatisfied with Kerry-Lynne Findlay's leadership

theprogress.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

Meanwhile, the sucking noises at the finance ministry increase in strength...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2099582003939279336

 

[daftandbarmy]

Oops.... less health care for the boonies on its way....

https://twitter.com/x/status/2099921107432444029

 

[HavokFour]

The gift to Eby that keeps on giving.

BC Conservative Support Scatters Under Kerry-Lynne Findlay

BC Conservatives (35%, down 8-points from 2024 Election) Trail BC NDP (45%, unchanged) by 10-points. Nearly Half (46%) of BC Voters Have an Unfavourable Impression of New BC Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay (vs. 17% Favourable).

www.ipsos.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

They just can't avoid the stereotypes, can they?

Les Leyne: B.C. deficit keeps growing as NDP restraint fades​

Years of charts and graphs portrayed a reassuring trend line of modest declines in the annual deficits, but the latest quarterly report tells a different story.
https://www.vmcdn.ca/files/texttospeech/12783549-adb0d9d6-f4d3-4267-8ff9-16dfa5ddc253.mp3
The B.C. NDP committed after the 2024 election to curb its spending problem and start whittling down the record annual deficits it was piling up.

There were some hiring restrictions and “expenditure management” was stressed. The three-year charts and graphs portrayed a reassuring trend line of modest declines in the annual deficits.

It’s an entirely imaginary line, but it served as an answer to the mounting concerns about continual overspending.

That lasted until February when after a year’s worth of commitment to cost reduction, the deficit projection jumped another few billion to $13.3 billion, the highest ever.

This week’s quarterly report is the first progress report on sticking to that budget and it’s even worse than expected: $13.8 billion is the new expectation of this year’s deficit.

It jumped even with an unexpected $900 million bump in income tax revenue, as calculated by the federal government.

Two major things offset that boost. The biggest was $600 million in additional wildfire spending just from April to June.

The second was the $300 million reduction in the estimate of natural gas royalty revenues made after the remarkable calculation errors that came to light last month. Those mistakes amounted to a $1.5 billion over-estimate in a five-year time frame, so the reduction will carry through four more years, offset by other changes.

Les Leyne: B.C. deficit keeps growing as NDP restraint fades

Years of charts and graphs portrayed a reassuring trend line of modest declines in the annual deficits, but the latest quarterly report tells a different story.

www.timescolonist.com

 

[HavokFour]

The likelihood of Eby calling an early election just shot through the roof into low orbit.

Embattled B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay asked to step down, says she is ‘not going anywhere’

As turmoil continues for the B.C. Conservative Party, Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay says she is “not going anywhere.”

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[daftandbarmy]

The likelihood of Eby calling an early election just shot through the roof into low orbit.

Embattled B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay asked to step down, says she is ‘not going anywhere’

As turmoil continues for the B.C. Conservative Party, Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay says she is “not going anywhere.”

www.ctvnews.ca

And the municipalities, who are all at a convention in Vancouver this week, are pissed...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2100628278298231140