EDITORIAL SAYS, "... the B.C. Liberal Party looks a lot like the Socreds of days gone by ..."

There's an interesting editorial in today's edition of Kamloops This Week.  It says in part;

"... there is a seismic shift occurring that may result in a transformation every bit as significant as 1991, when the mighty Social Credit Party collapsed ... the BC Liberal Party looks a lot like the Socreds of days gone by ... whatever the reasons — poor policy decisions, hubris, a failure to listen to the people — the Liberals are well on their way to ceding the non-NDP vote to the upstart B.C. Conservative Party, just as two decades ago the Social Credit Party ceded that same vote to the upstart B.C. Liberal Party ..."

Click HERE to read the full opinion piece

Given the date of 1991, noted in the editorial, I went back for a quick refresher on that election ... here is what happened to the BC Social Credit Party

Seats held at dissolution:  47

Number of candidate seeking election: 74

Number of candidates elected:  7

The Social Credit Party went from having 49.32% of the popular vote, down to 24.07% ... a loss of 50% The Social Credit Party went from holding 47 seats, down to 7 ... losing 85% of the seats they had held in the legislature

The BC Conservative Party, led by John Cummins, is gaining momentum because the party is touching a chord with British Columbian's ... they are hitting on the things of concern, and importance, to the people of BC.  

Those common sense issues are what the party represents, and they are the common sense issues people are bring to the party as well.

I’m Alan Forseth in Kamloops, with the thoughts of one conservative.