Talk of a merger or non-compete agreement between the BC Conservatives and BC United has collapsed in acrimony and recriminations with Falcon and Rustad accusing each other of lying and negotiating in bad faith. I'm enjoying every minute of it
I don't really have a horse in what happens in BC, but to me it seems like BC United didn't really make this offer in good faith. It basically entailed the Conservatives not running in most of the interior. You know, the part of the province where Conservatives are most likely to win seats. The Conservatives are polling neck-and-neck with the NDP, and BCU are dropping down to Green Party levels. I don't know where Kevin Falcon got the audacity to try and negotiate such a hard bargain, but there's literally zero reason for Rustad to accept such a deal. Effectively all it would do is stall BC Conservatives, let BCU hang on for dear life, and more likely than not give momentum to the NDP.
