Throne Speech - June 2017

[alfred2]

Right, so in her darkest hour she steals platform talking points from her opponents.

only a smart politican would do what she did. this will shake up the libs and we will see more of a stable govt. by them. Weaver has to support them now for his own good.If he does then we may get rid of hogan, and maybe christy.

[hobbyguy]

We don't know the motivations. We don't know if premier Clark would have liked to move on those things before, but the caucus would not buy them.

We do know it is shrewd politically.

Beyond that, it is all conjecture and opinion.

We do know that the "Christy haters" will project nastiness onto it, but they have nothing but their own blood colored gl;*bleep* to base that on.

I don't care, because I have said for a long time that I wanted half of the Green platform and half of the Liberal platform - and that's exactly what the throne speech reflects.

[flamingfingers]

^^But you voted for Christy's 'status quo' platform didn't you?

And you feel that it's okay that all these policy flip-flops were annoted with the weasel-words 'as soon as possible' - and WHEN will that 'as soon as possible' happen? Next year? Two years from now or maybe 4 years from now - in time for the NEXT election?

[flamingfingers]

Sums up:

Clark acknowledged in an interview with Postmedia News this week that her government was a “bull in a china shop” on jobs and the economy, but should have moved sooner on social reforms.

She didn’t. The resulting throne speech was a mess that has damaged the credibility of Clark, de Jong and the Liberal brand. Now, the recriminations begin.

http://vancouversun.com/news/politics/r ... redibility

[Queen K]

We don't know the motivations. We don't know if premier Clark would have liked to move on those things before, but the caucus would not buy them.

We do know it is shrewd politically.

Beyond that, it is all conjecture and opinion.

We do know that the "Christy haters" will project nastiness onto it, but they have nothing but their own blood colored gl;*bleep* to base that on.

I don't care, because I have said for a long time that I wanted half of the Green platform and half of the Liberal platform - and that's exactly what the throne speech reflects.

I do not care either, as long as she follows up with what I want too.

[flamingfingers]

^^My advice: Don't hold your breath. Christy will only do what is best for her. Always has; always will.

[rustled]

^^My advice: Don't hold your breath. Christy will only do what is best for her. Always has; always will.

Perhaps.

I see you're not suggesting Horgan and Weaver are cut from different cloth.

[The Green Barbarian]

^^But you voted for Christy's 'status quo' platform didn't you?

Moreso I voted against Horgan's "insanely stupid" platform. But it's the NDP. They can always be counted on to be insanely stupid.

[The Green Barbarian]

^^nevertheless Urb, nepotism and favoritism to the detriment of the taxpayers is unsupportable.

LOL - so is having a back-room meeting with the BCTF like Clark and Dix did in 1998 and handing over class size and composition to the disgusting BCTF. The NDP is a disease.

[The Green Barbarian]

They voted for it.
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No they didn't. A lot of protest voters who voted Green are really angry with the naive Dr. Weaver right now.

[Urban Cowboy]

Right, so in her darkest hour she steals platform talking points from her opponents.

That's one way of looking at it I suppose.

The other would be that she took note of the election results, stated publicly that the voters wanted parties to work together, and hence took appropriate action to demonstrate she listened to the will of the people.

That's actually more than I can say for the other two, who'd sell their souls for power.

What Clark offered is what people said they wanted, so for those complaining about that now, it's a tad suspicious, given that obviously power is more important to them, than the items they've been griping about.

I've said all along that I think we have another election in our near future, but I also think after taking down the Liberal government that the NDP will ultimately pay for this move, and pay dearly.

[George+]

Tick tock.
Tick tock.

[mr.bandaid]

^^But you voted for Christy's 'status quo' platform didn't you?

Moreso I voted against Horgan's "insanely stupid" platform. But it's the NDP. They can always be counted on to be insanely stupid.

And yet Christy seems to suddenly like their platform and heavily plagiarized from it in the throne speach......go figure. I guess voting against the insanely stupid platform was really an exercise in futility.

[mr.bandaid]

Right, so in her darkest hour she steals platform talking points from her opponents.

That's one way of looking at it I suppose.

The other would be that she took note of the election results, stated publicly that the voters wanted parties to work together, and hence took appropriate action to demonstrate she listened to the will of the people.

That's actually more than I can say for the other two, who'd sell their souls for power.

What Clark offered is what people said they wanted, so for those complaining about that now, it's a tad suspicious, given that obviously power is more important to them, than the items they've been griping about.

I've said all along that I think we have another election in our near future, but I also think after taking down the Liberal government that the NDP will ultimately pay for this move, and pay dearly.

Very simply a shell game to desperately try and hold on to power. We can now add con artist to her list of attributes.

[Queen K]

I had the same thought. But if those of us did NOT vote other than Liberal, then how would Clark know that there is a protest element in her own riding and beyond? Even in ridings where it is futile to vote Green or NDP, to get in their candidate, the protest vote scenario is the best way to go.