The NDP may be worse off than before, and the Conservatives have imploded.
So what will happen to Dix and Cummings?
So what will happen to Dix and Cummings?
The Reckoning.
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Understood. The Conservative duties used to be filled by the Social Credit Party, run by two generations of Bennetts, who left a vaccuum when they packed it in and we have never fully recovered. The Liberals and the Conservatives have sort of changed places....
Did you cash in your brick shares yet?
I don't think I did. What do you think they are worth?.......:smile:.....I'm thinking...the paper they are printed on...maybe..
Both will step down.
The BC Cons have just ceased to exist.
The Lib's didn't win that election the Dip's lost it.
All Dix had to do was pitch a business friendly stategy, grow the economy, provide jobs, provide a little accountability and so forth.
But instead he told the truth, higher taxes, no to resource developments and more tax money given to the Unionists.
And the people of BC just could not vote for that platform.
I do respect Adrian Dix for telling the truth however politically foolish that was.
The BC Dip's now will have 4 years to try to build a business and job friendly platform.
Hmmmmn...................didn't they just have the last......what was it 12 years to do just that?
Cummings will probably retire, and I think Dix will walk the plank. But the Conservatives have a chance, if they can get their act together, because, the way I read this election, people voted for the liberals because they feared the NDP. So there must be a chance for an alternative right-wing party.
I'm not sure how much 'fear' played into the election - maybe for some. The majority of my friends and neighbors are small 'c' conservative with a few dippers lurking in the bushes. ;-) We're basically pragmatic folks. We feel we got screwed by the Libs but know from bitter experience that the alternative would be economic suicide for our province.
Tonight for the first time in months, I watched Global news and finally got to see some of the campaign, the candidates in action and snippets of the debate. Thus it was that I found myself grudgingly at first, admiring Christy Clark. She is a master at being 'natural'. She comes across as someone who is utterly and completely where she wants to be - and proud of it. I appreciate that in a leader and as I watched her interview with the Global host tonight, I found myself silently applauding her. Now if she only lives up to half her promises (no one lives up to them all) - she may earn my respect. Good luck to you Christy.
Watching Adrian Dix in the debate and in some of his glad-handing tours, I could only wince. The poor man looked so very uncomfortable. Stiff, awkward and unprepared for parts of the debate or possibly at a loss for words - hard to tell. I simply can't imagine him at the Premier's Conferences or dealing with the Feds. We need a strong voice for our Province, someone unafraid of the power wielded by other Premiers or the Feds. I do not see that strength in Mr Dix.