The irony is that Eby could certainly have won a legitimate contest if he tried at all. I assume the party thought they'd save time and effort by skipping to what they thought would be an inevitable conclusion, forgetting that the process matters. Best case scenario is another mandate with an asterisk on the premiere's name. Worst case, they lose the next election and the province is run by the BC condo developer party for the next 20 years.
Right? He fucked the dog all the while Anjali was signing up thousands of people.
He could have done exceedingly basic leadership bid tasks like:
Sign up new members
Put forward policy proposals
Justify his leadership bid in any way shape or form
And he did none of that. Nothing, absolutely nothing.
I am so fucking pissed right now. Honestly I didn't even want Anjali as leader, I wasn't even going to vote for her. But now? The BCNDP is going to receive a very angry email tomorrow with my membership (of nearly 20 years) resignation, and will not receive a single vote from me ever again.
Yep. I actually like Eby. I don't love him, and he's still a lib, but I prefer him to Horgan, and wouldn't have been mad to see him win a straight leadership race. This is one of the more impressive unforced errors in Canadian politics.
Eby endeared himself to me when he beat Christy Clark in her own riding, so that's part of it, but he's also been one of the main forces behind understanding the housing affordability crisis. Even though he hasn't quite followed the premise to its logical conclusions, I remember him as being one of the few people at the time who was able to articulate that the housing market is being affected by investment capital, and that merely building more things wasn't going to solve any problems. Coming out of many years where the province was essentially just a place where people could launder money and park capital through real estate, having someone buck that trend and at least try to air the more fundamental issues was a breath of fresh air.
Also, I don't think much of Horgan. At a time when there was a need and political will to do more radical things, he played the role of administrator. He spent most of his time as premier directing traffic. Meanwhile, the opposition has been trying to figure out how to get back in so they can privatize all the crown corps and eliminate taxes on real estate developers. I don't necessarily think Eby will be that much more radical than Hogan, but I'm not sure I've seen evidence that Horgan has any vision or perspective at all.
They did it. They disqualified her.
Utterly brazen rat fuckery.
The irony is that Eby could certainly have won a legitimate contest if he tried at all. I assume the party thought they'd save time and effort by skipping to what they thought would be an inevitable conclusion, forgetting that the process matters. Best case scenario is another mandate with an asterisk on the premiere's name. Worst case, they lose the next election and the province is run by the BC condo developer party for the next 20 years.
Right? He fucked the dog all the while Anjali was signing up thousands of people.
He could have done exceedingly basic leadership bid tasks like:
Sign up new members
Put forward policy proposals
Justify his leadership bid in any way shape or form
And he did none of that. Nothing, absolutely nothing.
I am so fucking pissed right now. Honestly I didn't even want Anjali as leader, I wasn't even going to vote for her. But now? The BCNDP is going to receive a very angry email tomorrow with my membership (of nearly 20 years) resignation, and will not receive a single vote from me ever again.
FUCK THE BC NDP :agony-consuming:
Yep. I actually like Eby. I don't love him, and he's still a lib, but I prefer him to Horgan, and wouldn't have been mad to see him win a straight leadership race. This is one of the more impressive unforced errors in Canadian politics.
why? I don't really know anything about him
Eby endeared himself to me when he beat Christy Clark in her own riding, so that's part of it, but he's also been one of the main forces behind understanding the housing affordability crisis. Even though he hasn't quite followed the premise to its logical conclusions, I remember him as being one of the few people at the time who was able to articulate that the housing market is being affected by investment capital, and that merely building more things wasn't going to solve any problems. Coming out of many years where the province was essentially just a place where people could launder money and park capital through real estate, having someone buck that trend and at least try to air the more fundamental issues was a breath of fresh air.
Also, I don't think much of Horgan. At a time when there was a need and political will to do more radical things, he played the role of administrator. He spent most of his time as premier directing traffic. Meanwhile, the opposition has been trying to figure out how to get back in so they can privatize all the crown corps and eliminate taxes on real estate developers. I don't necessarily think Eby will be that much more radical than Hogan, but I'm not sure I've seen evidence that Horgan has any vision or perspective at all.