Its Friday November the 4th, and that means its time to take a look at some of
the stories of BC politics that made news this week.
This has been a week that had bad news for the BC Liberals with the release of
the latest Angus Reid Poll … smart meters and hidden debt at BC Hydro … differing
opinions on the value of trade missions … and more. Let’s start off news on the poll released yesterday
by Angus Reid …
… it obscures what’s really going on in BC politics ... numbers
reported by Angus Reid … show is that John Cummins and the Conservatives are
taking votes from both the Liberals and the NDP. For every two-and-a-half votes
the Conservatives get from the Liberals they get one from the NDP. Take the
Conservatives out of the equation, reassign those votes from whence they came
and you still get an NDP victory... the real question is why have the BC
Liberals lost a third of their voters since the last election ...
… post-Campbell Liberals are struggling … the Liberals trailing the
NDP, having dropped 12 points under new premier Christy Clark ... the lost
support isn’t going to the NDP, it’s going to the B.C. Conservative Party ...
NDP gained just two points, while the Conservatives rose by 13, to 18 per cent …
results suggest voters feel Clark is moving the Liberals too far to the left of
centre, and are abandoning it for the right-wing Tories ... bad news for the
Liberals, whether federal or provincial. They really need to do something if they
hope to survive, much less prosper....
John Cummins … “Everyone knows that no actual business is conducted on
these trips – just the pre-arranged announcements of existing deals. If Premier
Clark wants to bring business to BC she should skip the expensive photo-ops and
focus on economic fundamentals – lower taxes, reduce transportation costs and
scrap the HST in the next four months.”
