BC Election on October 24th

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How about you all wait until you see what the election results actually look like before discussing 'the map'?

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I mean the main thing that has changed is that this version of the BC NDP is significantly less radical than many previous versions and is also capable of running the proverbial whelk stall without accidentally managing to burn it down. Hard to be afraid of John Horgan, and that changes the tone of political life a lot.

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Ok I will agree that this NDP is less “radical” than the Barrett government was in 1972 but how is it any less “radical” than the NDP was under Harcourt or even Glen Clark for that matter

That government would be covered by the remark about the whelk stall.

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Ok I will agree that this NDP is less “radical” than the Barrett government was in 1972 but how is it any less “radical” than the NDP was under Harcourt or even Glen Clark for that matter

That government would be covered by the remark about the whelk stall.

And it, together with Rae in Ontario, cemented the crippling notion of the NDP as a clown-car in power (Romanow in Sask being the exception that proved the rule)

Glen Clark is, of course, a regular captain of industry these days, exactly the sort of person who used to regard Glen Clark the politician as a public menace, because Canadian politics wouldn't be Canadian politics if it did not frequently feel like heavy-handed satire.

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There's been a substantial upper working/lower middle class outflow from points further in the Vancouver metropolitan area to that general region for a while - it's just that it's rarely had electoral consequences because people like that as likely to buy the 'vote for stability and against those incompetent radicals' as middle class conservatives. But when that card is useless...