Kevin Falcon to fold BC United Party, suspend campaign | Globalnews.ca
Kevin Falcon to fold BC United Party, suspend campaign | Globalnews.ca
In a seismic shift in B.C. politics, Kevin Falcon is expected to fold the BC United Party on Wednesday and suspend his campaign. More details are expected soon.
BC conservatives is a massive downgrade compared to the BC Liberals. At-least the name is more accurate in terms of policy, it will be harder to fool new comers and centrists now.
This is an absolutely massive "slide" to the right. Things like privatized healthcare, abortion restrictions, cuts to education, and massive rollbacks to environmental protections are now clearly back on the table.
I can only hope voters aren't stupid enough to vote them in, but we both know they absolutely can be.
With an election less than 2 months away? Sounds like probable corruption to me. And boo on losing the dynamic of two conservative parties splitting the conservative vote
Conservatives know how to game the system in their favour and if that doesn’t work they cheat.
They’re against proportional representation since it would lead to more competition in the amount of conservative parties and when first-past-the-post puts them at a disadvantage they quickly fall in line to prevent splitting the vote to avoid losing the election.
Kevin Falcon was insincere when he claimed that BC United would gladly lose multiple elections to uphold their morals.
This is pretty big new in the scope of Provincial politics.
The BC United Party that is currently the opposition with 23 out 87 seats is just going to fold and leave all the right wing voters for the rising far right BC Conservative party.
Deal has been reached for BC United to suspend provincial election campaign and some of its candidates will run for B.C. Conservatives. Kevin Falcon will not be running in the election. The list is still being worked on for others running for Conservatives
BC United was just behind in the polls and was bleeding opportunist candidates. I was hoping that they would've stuck in the race until they were down to at least 5 candidates. I suppose their corporate masters whipped them into line. Hopefully they cant transfer all those donations directly to the BC Conservatives since there is a limit on political contributions for every person.
It's pretty crazy to go from proposing a merger 3 months ago to completely folding up shop and letting the other party have the scraps. I suppose this does prove BC Liberals/United were and are a corrupt and incompetent party.
Now the BC right wing option is essentially just a bunch of rats that fled a sinking ship along some even further right wingers led by a guy who got kicked out for denying basic science.
I loved how some media outlets called it “throwing his weight behind the conservatives”. Ya. Weight….
More like cowering behind conservatives because the entire province knows that the BC Liberals were full to the gills with corruption.
My only sadness is that it wasn’t Krusty Clark throwing in the towel.
Why is everyone moving to the trump side of things? It seems counterproductive.
People have been permitted to be unintelligent.
Rather than being failed by the school system when they shouldn’t be moving to a higher grade.
Ruh roh, it's now the BC Broken Party... Shaggy!
Now onkly the BC conservatives would do the same thing....