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

[Brad Sallows]

The BC NDP blew a $6B surplus and went into a $9B deficit within only a year.

That too. Eby and his followers (I assume like most parties the provincial NDP has at least two major sub-factions) have dug themselves some big holes.

A thing people ought to realize before it blows up in their faces is that when the provincial government trades the interests of provincial voters for other political entities claiming their own direct relationships with the federal government, the provincial government is effectively abdicating its responsibility and abandoning the consent necessary to justify its existence.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Now the wheels are coming off of Brodie's bus...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1999561024064676051

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Conservatives just can't play nice with each other.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Conservatives just can't play nice with each other.

Conservatives are ideologically disinclined to pay for everything that everyone in the tent wants. LPC and NDP can always find agreement in spending more of someone else's money.

The gaps are where no-one agrees or even understands "what are you trying to conserve?"

In Canada particularly the "centrist" conservative doesn't seem to have much more ambition than to conserve whatever the last liberal government legislated. People unwilling to turn off a recent spending program that benefits them or overturn a narrowing of former liberties aren't conserving much of anything.

Brodie is expressing sentiments that the NDP establishment in particular, and of course everyone with money interests milking rents from the current legal/political tangle/regime, would like to squash right quick. So there'll be a lot of external pressure, much of which will be hidden from public view and very personally targeted. Expect fractures.