Next Liberal Manifesto

[flamingfingers]

http://therealstory.ca/

The next BC Liberal manifesto
Posted on November 3, 2011 by Ian

“What I recall Greg Selinger doing in Manitoba and McGuinty in Ontario [was being] very much focused on their government’s agenda,”

“They established their framework of what their government stood for and defined that clearly in the public mind and just campaigned really hard. They worked their backsides off, and it paid off.”

John Les comparing the BC Liberals to other recently re-elected governments

So listen up BC. Here’s where we stand. And here’s what we’ll be selling next campaign.

We screwed you on the HST, lied about it and then spent $7 million of your money to try and force it down your throat. When that failed we screwed you twice over in its removal.

We lied about the deficit in the last election and we’re still lying about it according to the Auditor General’s review of our creative accounting over at BC Hydro.

We took $6 million of your money to pay off the lawyers and shut down the Basi Virk trial. That meant the tough witnesses would never take the stand and get a chance to blow us out of the water. Your money well spent and the law well-served.

And a lesson well learned so we did it again with Boss Power Corp. at a cost of $30 million this time. And we fired the civil servant who tried to follow the law. Didn’t he get the memo? Screw the law we say.

And if a child stands in our way over at Community (love that name, it’s so 1984 Big Brother) Living BC we go all Marley at Christmas and cut the funding. If they don’t like it we doctor the report and ship them off to Siberia or a share house in Cache Creek.

We gutted BC Hydro, forced it to sell our buddies’ over-priced power and covered it up with some textbook manipulation of the books. And we’re spending a billion dollars on smart meters. You never know when you might need an extra special new rate for peak times.

Speaking of the dark arts or any arts at all – slashed and slashed again.

We put half a billion into BC Place so our other buddies could add a casino.

And we saw the gas tax and raised it some.

We set up special prosecutors for our MLAs who slipped up, and we got them all off. Crime, like any other business, pays when we’re in charge.

Then there’s Kash Heed. We admit it. A big mistake.

Above all we took care of our special fundraising friends. Come on down T. Richard Turner, Pat Kinsella, David MacLean and countless other one per centers. You mean more to us than all the rest of the ninety-nine per centers put together. And you can count on us to keep it like it is.

British Columbians, that’s where the BC Liberals stand.
If you don’t like it, we can always stage a coup.

Ah, the truth at last!!

[NAB]

British Columbians, that’s where the BC Liberals stand.

Not for much longer I'll wager ; - )

Nab

[steven lloyd]

Ah, the truth at last!!

And stated straightforward enough for even the slowest of lapdogs - one would think.

[D suzuki]

great post flamming

[flamingfingers]

great post flamming

Thanks! I would LOVE to take credit for this but it was Ian Reid from "The Real Story" who penned it.

[mr.bandaid]

British Columbians, that’s where the BC Liberals stand.

Not for much longer I'll wager ; - )

Nab

They have until the fall of 2013. The mud should start flinging early in 2012. Going to be the dirtiest election campaign in history in B.C. in 2013.

[The Green Barbarian]

Ah, the truth at last!!

And stated straightforward enough for even the slowest of lapdogs - one would think.

yup - straightforward. So who should we vote for non-lapdogs? Please tell me! The only reason we have these hated Liberals in the first place is that there is no one better. Something you seem to all conveniently forget while doling out insults and slapping yourselves on the back for being such intellectuals because you can spot flaws in a political party that can be seen from space.

[mr.bandaid]

Ah, the truth at last!!

And stated straightforward enough for even the slowest of lapdogs - one would think.

yup - straightforward. So who should we vote for non-lapdogs? Please tell me! The only reason we have these hated Liberals in the first place is that there is no one better. Something you seem to all conveniently forget while doling out insults and slapping yourselves on the back for being such intellectuals because you can spot flaws in a political party that can be seen from space.

Blah blah blah, how's your contibutions going for your next run at provincial politics? Castabully is back and blah blah blahing.

[grumpydigger]

Obviously some will accept Liberal corruption.

Over the fear of the socialist hordes.

[The Green Barbarian]

Ah, the truth at last!!

And stated straightforward enough for even the slowest of lapdogs - one would think.

yup - straightforward. So who should we vote for non-lapdogs? Please tell me! The only reason we have these hated Liberals in the first place is that there is no one better. Something you seem to all conveniently forget while doling out insults and slapping yourselves on the back for being such intellectuals because you can spot flaws in a political party that can be seen from space.

Blah blah blah, how's your contibutions going for your next run at provincial politics? Castabully is back and blah blah blahing.

Sigh - yes - as I said - you guys are really good at insults (Castabully? Really? A new low Ms. Bandy) but real bad at giving alternatives - just pile on the guy who points this out, if it makes you feel better, but really helps no one.

[The Green Barbarian]

Obviously some will accept Liberal corruption.

Over the fear of the socialist hordes.

oh - is this an extremely cowardly endorsement of the NDP? Is it? Hmmmm....

[grumpydigger]

As opposed to a criminal endorsement of the Liberal government

[mr.bandaid]

Ah, the truth at last!!

And stated straightforward enough for even the slowest of lapdogs - one would think.

yup - straightforward. So who should we vote for non-lapdogs? Please tell me! The only reason we have these hated Liberals in the first place is that there is no one better. Something you seem to all conveniently forget while doling out insults and slapping yourselves on the back for being such intellectuals because you can spot flaws in a political party that can be seen from space.

Blah blah blah, how's your contibutions going for your next run at provincial politics? Castabully is back and blah blah blahing.

Sigh - yes - as I said - you guys are really good at insults (Castabully? Really? A new low Ms. Bandy) but real bad at giving alternatives - just pile on the guy who points this out, if it makes you feel better, but really helps no one.

What's a person to do? It is the same stuff over and over. I'm not sold on who I will vote for come the next election but you would have everyone believe that if it is not Liberal then it must be the NDP. Even the most die hard liberal supporter has to agree that the liberals have much to answer for and as a result they have tanked in the polls. I wonder if the Liberal party would survive having two people in office as the NDP has? They may find out though. I doubt the liberals will go into the next election with CC as a leader and perhaps a cull of other long time liberals will also occur. I am trying to have an open mind about what may happen but the constant blah blah about who will replace the Liberals is tiring, howdy dee dowdy could to a better job or perhaps bosso the clown, wait? he was sent to England.

[NAB]

They have until the fall of 2013. The mud should start flinging early in 2012.

Start? When did it ever stop? Mud slinging of the particularly ugly personal type has been a hallmark of these Liberals/Socreds coalition and their supporters (and their pure Socred predecessors) against those who disasgree with their approach and ideology for as long as I have been in BC (...and that's a long long time).

I think some of them are now starting to see the light however, and realize that as opposed to strengthing their position using such fear mongering and bully tactics, they are actually driving people to quietly seek and build an electable alternative for BC that can stand on its own merits rather than constantly degrading others. It won't happen overnight, but it most certainly will happen. I just hope I am around long enough to see it. One day we may actually get to see a real and detailed platform with a vision and plan for the future (rather than dwelling on the past) we can vote on, and expect it to actually be carried out by the winner. Just as I will not buy a product from a salesperson who knocks his/her competition rather than focusing on why I should buy his/her product based on its merits, I will not vote for any politician who does similar.

Edit to add: But first we have to see a leader arise and become well known, one who has the competence, experience, and honesty to lead BC out of its dark ages of extreme polarization, corruption, and economic mismanagement. That's something that is sadly lacking so far in anyone currently here and is simply a clone of the former clones all the way back to Wachy B.

Nab

[mr.bandaid]

What I should have said is that it will start to intensify. You're right, it never really stopped.