Eby thinks he has it in the bag and proceeds to do nothing. No campaigning, no signing up new members. Literally nothing, just waits for his coronation
Appadurai enters stage left and signs up over 10,000 new members with a fairly radical environmentalist platform
The due date for signing up new members passes, making it impossible for Eby to catch up
So now, essentially Appadurai beat the BC NDP at their own game. She followed all the rules and humiliated the BC NDP party brass.
Now, the BCNDP is in a lose lose situation: Either:
Go ahead with their planned leadership race which Eby is nearly guaranteed to lose
Disqualify Appadurai on bogus grounds, look like absolute cheating establishment bureaucrats, lose untold amount of credibility particularly among young voters (who are an essential demographic for them), and lose thousands of party members
Multiple federal MPs have called them out for their bullshit including Matthew Green (who called it "bullshit" on Twitter) as well as Nikki Ashton.
I honestly wonder what the federal NDP is going to do if they (inevitably) disqualify her. I can only hope they'd consider cutting ties, or at least discontinue the automatic membership pairing of the two, because they're going to lose a LOT of mf members.
I reckon he's waiting to see how it plays out before he says anything. He's definitely paying attention to what's going on.
And, I hate to bring up the whole race card thing, but someone with the life experience of Jagmeet is probably not going to appreciate the optics of a (let's be honest) largely old white boys' club of the BCNDP quashing the rising campaign of a young, idealistic east Indian woman based on bullshit allegations.
So, to summarise:
NDP party brass choose their successor, David Eby
Eby thinks he has it in the bag and proceeds to do nothing. No campaigning, no signing up new members. Literally nothing, just waits for his coronation
Appadurai enters stage left and signs up over 10,000 new members with a fairly radical environmentalist platform
The due date for signing up new members passes, making it impossible for Eby to catch up
So now, essentially Appadurai beat the BC NDP at their own game. She followed all the rules and humiliated the BC NDP party brass.
Now, the BCNDP is in a lose lose situation: Either:
Go ahead with their planned leadership race which Eby is nearly guaranteed to lose
Disqualify Appadurai on bogus grounds, look like absolute cheating establishment bureaucrats, lose untold amount of credibility particularly among young voters (who are an essential demographic for them), and lose thousands of party members
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Yep, 100%. Except somehow with even more arrogance and incompetence by the establishment.
Yep. About to be a shitshow.
Multiple federal MPs have called them out for their bullshit including Matthew Green (who called it "bullshit" on Twitter) as well as Nikki Ashton.
I honestly wonder what the federal NDP is going to do if they (inevitably) disqualify her. I can only hope they'd consider cutting ties, or at least discontinue the automatic membership pairing of the two, because they're going to lose a LOT of mf members.
So for Jagmeet has been a disappointment in calling out BCNDP for anything so I don’t expect much.
I reckon he's waiting to see how it plays out before he says anything. He's definitely paying attention to what's going on.
And, I hate to bring up the whole race card thing, but someone with the life experience of Jagmeet is probably not going to appreciate the optics of a (let's be honest) largely old white boys' club of the BCNDP quashing the rising campaign of a young, idealistic east Indian woman based on bullshit allegations.