Centre-left/social liberal/moderate socdem. YIMBY/urbanist. Mostly BC politics. He/him | 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈
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The hubris after winning one election is insane.
Past “right-wing” govts succeeded because they relied on heavy support from the centre. If you think Conservatives can just win by default because BC is “right-wing” you’ve made a fundamental miscalculation.
Geoff Russ: B.C. is a right wing province. The NDP was merely a chaotic interlude nationalpost.com/opinion/geo…
I feel like a revived BC Liberal is more likely to flop than succeed.
People don’t necessarily want The Liberals, they want Mark Carney. If you can find a Mark Carney, then the New BC Liberals
have potential. If not, their fate is probably more like the Van Liberals or CentreBC.
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Eby can come across to a lot of people as a 'woke social justice academic' - and they just broadly assign 'socialism' to a whole ton of that.
And as we've said, Eby's incompetence as a communicator meant he wasn't able to untangle that mess and carve out a different identity.
I think this is a preview for how the next four years are going to go.
Doerkson himself will want to govern relatively moderate, but the pressure from the base to bring in big right-wing change will be immense and I don’t know if Doerkson will have the nerve to defy them.
Dix and Farnworth would be good, but I’m kind of hoping for Ma here. She’s someone I could see being a major contender for leadership in the future, I’m curious to see how well she can play the role of opposition leader.
Rob Shaw: #BCNDP Caucus prepares to select interim leader after election defeat; Dix, Farnworth, Ma said to be possible choices biv.com/news/commentary/rob-… via @BIVnews #bcpoli #vanpoli
“If turnout was similar to 2024 the NDP would have won”
Pure conjecture. IMO it’s more likely that the demographic which votes the most (boomers) liked Doerkson better which is why lower turnout didn’t sink CPBC vote totals significantly compared to 2024.
I got ratioed for this, but my instincts were absolutely correct here.
Eby at least tried to come off as moderate in ‘24 and it played with off with relatively decent results in the wealthy parts of Metro Vancouver. Eby ‘26 didn’t bother and it completely reversed those gains.
This is why I don’t buy the NDP loss was a turnout issue, these results in the suburbs are terrible! “But Langley is a Conservative stronghold.” Horgan won this seat by 15 in 2020!
The NDP can win back voters from the Conservatives if we have the right message.
No. We need to move past this analysis.
Turnout was lower because normies didn’t care about the election. The Conservatives ran the better campaign and the vote totals are a reflection of that.
NDP screwups only made the loss worse than it otherwise would’ve been.
I’ve been getting a lot of shit, but I’m not backing down here.
I am a John Horgan New Democrat. I don’t want to make the BCNDP “conservative,” I want the party to be pragmatically centre-left.
The activist base has no interest in offering this, so I oppose them.
Huge misread of the electorate.
Turnout was lower because normies didn’t care about the election. It affected the Conservatives the least because they did the better job of persuading the available pool of voters.
“Brad West or bust” never said that. In all likelihood I will vote BC NDP again unless they nominate an explicit socialist.
I want to vote for someone who’s not going to double down on the same mistakes which cost us this election. The left simply isn’t offering that.
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From 2020 to 2026 the BC NDP went from 13/17 of seats in Richmond/Delta/Surrey/Langley to 0/19. Thats a huge realignment and represents the majority of the change that happened in that period. If the NDP can't compete south of the Fraser River they may as well give up. #bcpoli
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I am a member and I have donated countless times to the BC NDP.
Its my party as much as it is yours.
Whoever becomes leader we ALL need to back regardless of which wing of the party they represent. You could choose a far left leader and Id STILL vote NDP because stopping the cons is more important
“It’s not the Liberal Party” well the BC NDP hasn’t been the Avi Lewis NDP since I’ve been alive either.
I’ve been a loyal BCNDP voter since I’ve been old enough to vote. I’m not your damn enemy and I don’t like being treated as such!
Why do socialists think they own the BC NDP? The NDP hasn’t been meaningfully socialist for generations and like 60% of their voters are fed Libs.
What do they think will happen if they tell Liberals they aren’t welcome? It will collapse the party!
If the NDP decide liberals aren’t welcome, then we will join a party which accepts us and the NDP can get 5% of the vote.
What do you have me tell a Surrey mom who’s concerned about her children seeing drug consumption in public? “Actually, you’ve been tricked by right-wing propaganda.”
If we do this, we are not winning seats in Surrey for a generation.
