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.
#canada #britishcolumbia #BC #cdnpoli
“this will be a wake up call for the NDP”
Dear reader if I had a nickle for every “NDP Wake up call” I could buy a months worth of double doubles from tims.
No, it won’t be a wake up call. it’s hard to wake a corpse. the worst thing that happened to that party was the death of Jack Layton and they’ve never been able to recover from it. There’s zero leadership. and the best bet is Layton’s partner, Olivia Chow, who herself is barely scraping by in the polls for her Mayoral re-election in Toronto.
Don’t get me wrong I want the NDP to do well, I want them to win, I just wish they could sort their shit out and have a strong intelligent leader.
I think Avi Lewis is doing a good job for the fed NDP so far.
But not enough to be actually elected to Parliament?
E: I didn’t downvote.
I don’t think electing him to parl is important at this point. I think campaigning and building a grassroots structure within the party is much more important. This party should no longer be another traditional party with different bullet points on its web site and a different talking head. It should be a movement with a lot of organized people all over Canada that educate, campaign, knock on doors, fundraise and produce the bullet points on the web site and the talking head. If we can get to that point the party would be much more robust, not dependent on a particular leader, wouldn’t collapse when a good leader’s gone, could more easily replace a bad leader, etc. I think Lewis is working towards that goal. I see him being elected MP as robbing him from time and resources that could be used towards building up the party. At least for the time being. I think he should run when enough of the work is done so that his election is a formality with little uncertainty for success. I don’t think we’re there yet.
A reminder for anyone in Toronto
TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE and we absolutely cannot let Cuck Cuckford win. He wants to fucking privatize our WATER and sell it to AI data centers. Just imagine how much worse Billy Bishop and Ontario Place will get with Doug Dougford’s cock puppet in charge.
Polls are open until 8. Not voting (if legally able to) is surrender.
GO FUCKING VOTE
If you live in the 6ix, vote option 9
Brad Brad Ford - it’s in the name.
Monied interests make sure that they’ll never see that leader. The NDP are controlled opposition at best. Which sucks because they’re barely even left wing with their ideas.