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Posted in General on Dec 14th, 2010
The early skirmishing has begun in the races to decide who will be the next premier and leader of the opposition. In the former case, Christy Clark, Mike DeJong and Kevin Falcon seem to be the front runners while in the latter, though there are no declared candidates, it would seem to be Adrian Dix, [...]
I’m often accused of many and often grievous sins. Usually, I must admit, there is a grain of truth in the accusation but the one I recently received said: “so the unions are paying Moe Sihota’s salary – why are you so anti union?” This isn’t the first time this or a similar accusation has [...]
Posted in General on Dec 8th, 2010
In my assessment of future NDP leaders I left out Adrian Dix and I’m not quite sure why. He certainly is a contender and gets a lot of points for being one of the few attack dogs on the NDP side of the aisle. On the down side, Dix was involved in the memo forgery [...]
Posted in General on Dec 7th, 2010
I’m trying to figure out if I was surprised to hear of Carole James resignation or not. Certainly I was sorry for Carole whom I believe is a fine person who probably, as I said long ago, is not of the right temperament for politics, BC style. She’s a conciliator not a fighter but ironically [...]
Julian Assange, the major domo of Wikileaks, ought to be in jail. There is a word away from a whistler blower and Assange. The whistle blower sees something wrong in his sphere of work and tells the public what it is. Assange is releasing documents not because he’s concerned for the truth but as a [...]
Posted in General on Dec 2nd, 2010
What a glorious opportunity for a 3rd Party claiming the centre of the political spectrum! I was surprised at the action taken by Jenny Kwan asking for a leadership convention. What a pickle this puts Carole James in!. I want to say this about my own position. PLEASE DON’T TAKE ANY OF MY POLITICAL RAMBLINGS [...]
Posted in General on Dec 1st, 2010
Now that the Liberal leadership has warmed up we, the long suffering environmentalists, have our work cut out for us – the environment must be an issue. I say this knowing that not one of the Campbell clones gives a rat’s ass about environmental issues. If for no other reason, we must vocally make ourselves [...]
Posted in General on Nov 29th, 2010
You will, I hope, forgive my absence from these pages. Treating a note for the teacher, I have two excuses. The most annoying problem has been a week long bout with stomach flu which I got in Victoria, one week from last Sunday. It’s pretty much gone now, the saints be praised! The other problem [...]
Posted in General on Nov 26th, 2010
Let me explain what I mean by a third political force in BC politics. Today there are two forces, the Right represented by the Liberals and the Left by the NDP. I do not consider either the Green party or the Conservatives as political forces now or in the foreseeable future. This revelation always makes [...]
Posted in General on Nov 19th, 2010
What a week even by BC political “standards”! People are saying that the legislature is dysfunctional but that’s been the case for decades. Our system makes party discipline and rule by the premier’s office a certainty. What demonstrates this point is just what is going on – a wounded unto death premier means a dysfunctional [...]
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