VANCOUVER SUN: “Abbott left to pull party out of ditch”

BC Premier, and ditch digger, Christy Clark

Interesting news from the BC Liberals today ... which you can read in today's edition of the Vancouver Sun

Premier Christy Clark has appointed cabinet minister George Abbott to chair a year-long development of a policy platform for the B.C. Liberals in advance of the next provincial election.

Abbott, who remains as education minister, will preside over a lengthy consultation, starting with members of the public and B.C. Liberal party members at the constituency level. The ideas to emerge from those sessions will then be honed at a series of regional conferences, then a full-blown provincial convention in the fall.

This news story goes on to say that … Clark has now asked him to help extract the party from the ditch of its own making and to develop those new linkages with the electorate. Joining Abbott in this hopeful exercise is a backroom appointee, acting as adviser to the platform committee. He's Ken Boessenkool, a Calgary-based political consultant and some-time lobbyist ...

I think that many who have left the party, or no longer support the party, may have an opinion similar to mine after reading this story...

I truly feel sorry for the individual rank and file members, of the BC Liberal Party, who have been let down by those who have schemed and connived their party in to this "Ditch".

They are the executive … a group that considers themselves the party elite ... a clique of people whose only reason for being is the keep themselves, not the party, in power. This is just one more example of the need to have a change in how things are done. We need to have the bottom up grassroots common sense of people in control of things.

Speaking of which ... make sure you read "Gentleman John extraordinarily ordinary" in the North Shore News.  It's an interesting read if you wish to see the contrast between BC Conservation Party leader John Cummins ... and Christy Clark.

I'm Alan Forseth in Kamloops ... with the brief thoughts of one conservative.