Today broke grey and raw for New Democrats here in BC: last night was a body blow.
This morning I’m sending solidarity and care to all the progressive organizers - within and beyond electoral politics - who have worked tirelessly over so many years in this province.
It is thanks to your unending effort that we have won and defended all our social gains: queer and disability rights, Indigenous rights, childcare and public health, working conditions and unionization, universal public services and more.
None of these victories came without struggle. And that struggle must continue now, to protect them in every way we can.
But not today. Today is a day to feel all the feelings, find comfort and get some rest.
Tomorrow we rise to fight again.
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Nah. Eby didn’t give us a conservative majority government. The voters did.
The snap election was a dumb move but our new government was picked by the electorate, not Eby or the NDP.
A dumb move is an understatement. It was political opportunism at its ugliest. It was the exact opposite of fair, coming from a party that is in large part about fairness. Had the conservatives done this the NDP would have been screaming bloody murder, and rightly so. Yes, the electorate elected the new government. But the NDP really, really provoked it, so they take a large part of the blame.
And that, in large part, is what the electorate rejected.
It wouldn't matter which party caused an unnecessarily early election if they did it for such blatantly opportunistic reasons. They'd still get punished at the polls.
Not to mention that he did it with such strategically poor timing as immediately after municipal elections when voters were already burned out. This set a record for lowest turnout.