The Day of Decision/Destruction/Disaster has finally arrived. Longtime political columnist Vaughn Palmer reviews the election campaign. BC political pundit Alex Tsakumis has published his detailed predictions. Yours truly was discussing the election with Charles Adler this afternoon.
Update: Post-election analysis request: Now that the election is over and the Liberals have won a majority, what conclusions do you feel can be drawn from the results? What policies of the Liberals and the NDP do you feel the average British Columbia voter supports and which ones do you feel they reject?
Stunned NDP supporters at their surprising loss:
h/t max
Once again the “pollsters” are wrong. Raise your hand any body who’s surprised. My wife and I both proudly voted Conservative. At least we had the choice. The idea of Dixhead getting to be in charge of the cash box is too horrid to contemplate. Diane Watt for Premier if we must have Lieberal governments. The Cons just had no chance but at least I didn’t have to hold my nose and vote lieberal..
In my riding in Burnaby, where the NDP Mayor’s wife was incumbent, there was no Conservative on the ballot, so I voted for the Liberals, and I think a lot of people did also (though I still don’t know who won in the riding). Tsakumis and his sycophants made a political fight into a personal vendetta against Christie Clark. Though you wouldn’t think it possible he may have let Christie pick up a kind of sympathy vote.
The pollsters/pundits were wrong before the election, and now they are wrong after the election too!
This is *not* an epic win for Christy Clark as all the papers are touting. The NDP-Green vote split. And just about every person I know who voted Liberal can’t stand the party or Clark.
The Liberals will now move even more to the left – just watch.
I think the only people jumping for joy today are the Liberals themselves.
So Andrew Weaver won for the greens?
Bad position, being a winning politician, when one is launching SLAPPs against climate change critics in an attempt to shut them up. Suing pensioners – way to go Weaver. I am sure the newspapers you threatened with SLAPPs are licking their chops. Now we can ask the questions publicly. How about we start asking why you have used taxpayer funds to act as a lobbyist for the Suzuki foundation for all those years.
And speaking of St. Suzuki, the one who wants to arrest and jail his critics, perhaps Weaver will now produce the arrest list on behalf of his handlers?
Will he be able to find a green polish for his jackboots?
Stay tuned, should be fun.
I rather the Libs had only won by a slim majority or minority NDP. As it is the Libs have enough seats to go full retard with nothing to stop them from being stupid. This election was basically choosing which end of a shit covered stick to grab.
“And just about every person I know who voted Liberal can’t stand the party or Clark.”
PRECISELY!
But the victors rewrite history to suit their own narrative, don’t they?!
The only hope now is that Christy Clark will lose the byelection vote … and badly.
You got it cgh, the liberal talking points lady on Global referred to the “close working relationship Christy Clarke has with the feds and PM Stephen Harper”…Gateway is a done deal. Let er’ buck.
My best wish for British Columbians is that the provincial Liberals are a totally different breed of cat than our Ontarian Liberals.
Ontarian Liberals as a governing body collectively could not successfully operate a Mom & Pop Variety store, yet have been driving Canada’s former “Golden Goose” province into a shithouse of debt, and created a socialist poorhouse depending on Newfoundland for alms.
Crooked, self promoting, brigand bastards, and Andrea Horwaths[ ND’s are propping them !!
This result should make us feel better about the polls that are assuring us that the Shiny Pony will be our next prime minister. On voting day, there’s a big swing back to the incumbent.
The BC Liberals under Gordon Campbell were a merged centre-right party (the old Social Credit influence) and did good things until Andrew Weaver got the ear of Campbell. From then on, the left wing of the party (ie., Federal Liberals) was on the rise, culminating in Clark’s “selection” as premier. Hopefully, the old guard can now come out from the shadows and take the party back to the right, especially as Weaver is now on the opposite side of the house openly instead of covertly.
Dear NDP: get a new leader who isn’t crazy. Also, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Dear BCCP: get a new leader who isn’t incompetent.
Dear Liberals: you only buy default you guys still suck.
The BC Liberal party == the federal liberals == the ontario liberals. This election was a choice between tax increases and more spending, tax increases more spending and shutting down some vital industries, or complete loony tunes de-industrialization green genocide agenda 21 stuff. I “voted” none of the above.
BTW Alex Tsakumis blog is now hilarious. These people are claiming that Dix took the high road here? What a buffoon he is.
The NDP got creamed in the Lower Mainland, B.C.’s equivalent of 905, where 6 out of 35 seats flipped to the Liberals. It didn’t hurt that Dix was spooky enough that people couldn’t indulge the luxury of an Independent, so the Liberals picked up both of those in the Interior.
So there’s your margin of majority.
Actually, a pig, a weasel, a toad, and a dead rabbit.
If you can make tofu or latte out of bitumen, then I think the pipeline deal is, like, on baby. Peace out.
Glenn, there was a truckload of both Ontario Liberal party organizers and Stockwell Day and some of his people working for Clark on this election. And Stock Day ain’t helping a provincial Liberal party without the full support of the PTBs in the national CPC. So yes, both Clark and Harper have reasons to smile this morning.
It’s too soon to say that Northern Gateway is a done deal. But you’re right in this sense. The truly serious roadblock was the prospect of an utterly hostile provincial government. Now that Dix is sunk that threat’s passed. There’s only the legion of green slime, the Green aristos of Salt Spring Island, aboriginals, the inevitable court challenges, Greg Whats-his-face Mayor of Vancouver, and the river of dirty money flowing up from our Yankee friends thanks to Tides to deal with now. That’s not nearly as serious a problem as Premier Dix would have been.
Thoughtful commentary cgh, and not so much a Liberal win, more of an NDP / Dix loss.
Mother?! I thought that was her younger, slightly less hideous sister!