Two Provincial Government under electoral stress

[damngrumpy]

In Ontario the budget is being cut and the society is in a certain amount of electoral turmoil
In fact they could descend into a full blown election. Look to the left coast, here the situation
is becoming even more dire. Cristie Clark's government is showing signs of descending into
madness.
One of her former cabinet ministers is leaving in fact he crossed the floor to sit as an
independent conservative. At the moment, the BC Liberal Party is slowly sinking into the
sunset. BC Liberals are a coalition of federal Liberals and Tories and now there are two
parties on the right. Should there be more defections and they go to the BC Conservatives
NDP leader Dix can claim they are rats leaving a sinking ship and they are the same people
in leadership of Gordon Campbell who is still hated in this Province. We are going to see a
lot of unrest and I am thinking if the Liberals lose the two by elections coming up they will go
to the people earlier rather than later in order to avoid being wiped out.
Oh what a tangled web is a large part of the story in BC.

 

[JLM]

In Ontario the budget is being cut and the society is in a certain amount of electoral turmoil
In fact they could descend into a full blown election. Look to the left coast, here the situation
is becoming even more dire. Cristie Clark's government is showing signs of descending into
madness.
One of her former cabinet ministers is leaving in fact he crossed the floor to sit as an
independent conservative. At the moment, the BC Liberal Party is slowly sinking into the
sunset. BC Liberals are a coalition of federal Liberals and Tories and now there are two
parties on the right. Should there be more defections and they go to the BC Conservatives
NDP leader Dix can claim they are rats leaving a sinking ship and they are the same people
in leadership of Gordon Campbell who is still hated in this Province. We are going to see a
lot of unrest and I am thinking if the Liberals lose the two by elections coming up they will go
to the people earlier rather than later in order to avoid being wiped out.
Oh what a tangled web is a large part of the story in BC.

Yep, looks like Christy's goose is about cooked. Maybe she's just not premier material...........you have to be mean to succeed at that job. WAC had what it takes, but in those days dictators were better tolerated......he knew how to run business and didn't give a particular sh*t what anyone thought. Of course the scandals were running rampant in those days too............worse actually than today. Bob Sommers Minister of Lands and Forests did five years in the slammer for taking bribes and Gaglardi was up to his eye balls in all sorts of nefarious skulduggery. One of the big differences I suppose was people didn't expect as much in those days. People seem to want to do less and less for themselves as time goes on. The biggest problem now is what/who do we replace Christy with? The saddest thing is there isn't anyone who is any better, unless the Conservatives can attract enough of the electorate. We sure don't want a return to "Glen Clark days"................fudget budgets and boats that don't work!

 

[taxslave]

The trouble with coalition governments is that sometimes the ideological differences destroy the party. Remember that only one of the cabinet ministers supported Christie's leadership. I suspect this has a lot to do with her problems. Remember when Kim Campbell inherited the Conservative party? The process is very similar. The change in leadership came far too late and too many serving ministers are part of the problem.

One other problem for Christie is the very entrenched militant socialist government unions.

 

[JLM]

The trouble with coalition governments is that sometimes the ideological differences destroy the party. Remember that only one of the cabinet ministers supported Christie's leadership. I suspect this has a lot to do with her problems. Remember when Kim Campbell inherited the Conservative party? The process is very similar. The change in leadership came far too late and too many serving ministers are part of the problem.

One other problem for Christie is the very entrenched militant socialist government unions.

I think (hope) people are finally getting to "see through" Unions- just another level of bureaucracy and probably the stupidest level as indicated by the fact that their sole ability is to measure seniority............not an inkling about how to measure skills or work performance. :smile: