The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 16, 2024


BC Conservatives lead the NDP - Rustad rejects BCU begging for merger

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David Eby John Rustad Kevin Falcon Brad West Pierre Poilievre Conservative
David Eby losing young BC voters - Conservatives have momentum A Terrible week for Justin Trudeau's Liberals!

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A new poll is out for the BC Conservative Party, and it's good news for John Rustad and the rest of the BC United campaign. I also talk about the failed merger talks between the Conservatives and BC United, and Brad West.

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00:00:00.000 A new poll is out for the British Columbia provincial election, and it is excellent news
00:00:05.140 for John Rustad and the BC Conservative Party. Despite the fact that we are still five months
00:00:10.620 out before the next provincial election, and a lot of voters don't really start paying
00:00:14.640 attention until a month or two beforehand, the BC Conservatives decisively have the momentum.
00:00:21.100 David Eby and his failing NDP are not just sort of floundering in the polls, they're
00:00:26.720 dropping like a stone. They used to be at 45% not that long ago, now they're only at 37%
00:00:33.580 according to this Polara poll. Polara has the BC Conservatives at 38, as I said before,
00:00:39.160 the NDP's at 37, the BC United are at 13, and the BC Greens are at 9%. The BC Conservatives
00:00:46.800 have the momentum, and it's because the main issue of this election is David Eby himself.
00:00:52.280 This election has become a referendum on David Eby, and whether or not you want all of his
00:00:57.460 policies reversed or not. This wasn't in the Polara poll, but in past polls, when you actually
00:01:03.080 look at what different British Columbians think on the issues, they think that David Eby is
00:01:08.780 doing a terrible job on all of the election-defining issues, and that's why it's a referendum on
00:01:15.420 him. Because on drugs, crime, taxes, especially the carbon tax, and SOGI-123, British Columbians
00:01:23.300 don't like what David Eby is doing. And so the entire election is get David Eby out of office
00:01:29.380 or not. And the BC Conservative Party is the only party that can do that and make it worthwhile.
00:01:35.640 Yes, Kevin Falcon and the BC United still technically exist. But even if British Columbians
00:01:42.420 bent over backwards to donate even more money to the BC United campaign for them and got
00:01:47.960 them into office, what would happen? Nothing. They would moderately reform some of the things
00:01:53.420 that David Eby have been doing, but their behavior in the legislature has proven that they have
00:01:58.540 more in common with the NDP than they do with the BC Conservative Party. And I want to get
00:02:03.880 to talking about the merger talks that had happened with Kevin Falcon, John Rustad, and Port Coquitlam
00:02:10.700 Mayor Brad West. Because I am very happy to see John Rustad just outright denied the ability to
00:02:17.360 merge with the BC United. You do not staple yourself to a burning log like the BC United. People don't
00:02:23.960 trust them, so don't water down your own party and join with them and let all of the corrupt
00:02:29.160 consultants into your party. They're on the right track, stay the course, and you will win. This poll
00:02:35.360 demonstrates that they're on the right course. Because the BC Conservatives, all they have to do to win
00:02:39.980 this election is point at David Eby, say, get rid of that radical hippie out of office, and we will
00:02:45.540 get rid of all of his radical policies. We'll recriminalize drugs, we will lower taxes, we'll
00:02:51.160 crack down on crime, and we'll get rid of the carbon tax. That's what BC residents want. BC voters,
00:02:57.720 contrary to popular opinion outside of British Columbia, like I'm in Alberta and everyone thinks
00:03:02.260 that BC voters must like what David Eby is doing. They haven't liked anything that the BC NDP have been
00:03:08.620 doing. The polling shows it. They didn't like the BC Liberals before, and the reason why these people
00:03:14.760 kept getting into office is there wasn't the conservative alternative. And so BC voters were
00:03:19.720 subjected to keep getting hoodwinked by either the NDP or the Liberals saying, hey, we're going to improve
00:03:25.540 things on drug addiction. We're going to improve crime. We're going to get control of taxes. And when
00:03:31.400 they said that, they really just meant that they were just going to continue with whatever plan
00:03:35.220 that wasn't working before, but they're going to double the funding or put an even more radical
00:03:39.840 spin on what we're currently doing. And somehow, eventually, all these horrors will crack through
00:03:45.400 towards utopia, and everything will be fantastic. BC residents have gotten sick of being offered utopia
00:03:52.320 and just falling further into the pit. What they want is a government that doesn't promise the moon,
00:03:58.420 that just promises to get out of your way, to get control of crime and drugs,
00:04:03.400 and stop with the radical policies. But now, I just quickly want to jump over and talk about the
00:04:10.780 discourse that was going on over the last few days over potential mergers between the BC Conservatives
00:04:16.420 and BC United, and Brad West's offer that he could helm the new party. He could helm the new merger
00:04:23.480 party between the Conservatives and United. It's a terrible idea. John Rustad identified it. He even
00:04:29.640 called them out saying, I, back when the BC Conservatives and United were tied, we had offered
00:04:35.460 a merger deal that would have had some power sharing between myself and Kevin Falcon. And we even brought
00:04:41.460 Brad West into the conversation, and they weren't interested at all. I know that John Rustad used some
00:04:46.720 more colorful language describing the BC United's response. And I think if they want to merge now,
00:04:53.380 now that they are way down in the polls, they can go pack sand. If they couldn't identify that the BC
00:04:59.340 Conservatives were the vehicle of the future back then, they've just proven that they have no
00:05:04.260 leadership qualities, and they don't know what British Columbians want. Why would you want those
00:05:09.540 people potentially coming to your policy conventions in the future and watering down everything that
00:05:15.420 you're doing? The federal Conservatives and Pierre Polyev have more than 50% of the federal vote
00:05:21.740 in British Columbia. The BC Conservatives have more than enough people to work with to win. And it's
00:05:27.700 not that they need the United to come into the party, or they're going to somehow split the vote
00:05:32.800 and the NDP are going to come up the middle. No, in fact, the BC United staying outside of the
00:05:38.220 Conservatives helps the Conservatives more than it actually hurts them. It's actually hurting the
00:05:43.700 BC NDP right now, because the Conservatives have almost fully divested the United Party of all the
00:05:51.260 federal Conservatives who would ever dream of voting for the BC Conservatives. Now the BC United are
00:05:57.060 mostly just left with federal Liberal Party supporters and some federal NDP supporters.
00:06:02.300 So the BC United are just going to become the vote funnel. If you think David Eby's too radical,
00:06:08.480 but you're not willing to vote Conservative, you might go and vote for the United. But if United didn't
00:06:13.340 exist, you might stick with the NDP because you have this media-trained hatred for all Conservatives,
00:06:18.480 and you're unwilling to vote for John Rustad's party. So I hope the BC United stay out there
00:06:24.340 whining at the Conservatives to come in. Don't merge with them. They have proven themselves to
00:06:29.180 be losers, and don't let those losing people onto your team. I also want First to Know and the Greens 0.97
00:06:34.900 to stick around. They are also just funneling votes out of the NDP, because like I said at the
00:06:40.240 start of this video, or maybe it was in a different take, I've restarted this video so many times,
00:06:44.080 guys, please sympathize with me. This is like my 40th time, because so many people have tongue
00:06:48.300 twister names, at least in my opinion. But right now, the BC NDP are relying on about a third of
00:06:56.080 soft support still. A third of the BC NDP's voters are not even sure if they're even going to vote for
00:07:01.820 them. That's a dangerous position to be in, because almost 100% of BC Conservative voters are sure that
00:07:08.280 they want John Rustad to be the next premier. When you're behind in the polls as David Eby,
00:07:14.520 and even a third of your voters are still thinking about voting Conservative, United, or just staying
00:07:19.580 home, man, you're not going to be able to make a comeback. And Eby pretending, oh, I'm willing to
00:07:26.400 listen, I'm willing to reform the NDP's approach to drugs. No, he's not. He is a radical hippie who all
00:07:33.760 he said in his walking back of decriminalization was, please, guys, stop using crack and meth in
00:07:40.420 public parks. Do it on the sidewalk where the police aren't going to arrest you. And guys,
00:07:46.360 the BC police under Rustad's radical government are not going to start enforcing these no smoking
00:07:52.700 meth in public areas, like policies, because in the past, he's let people encamp in public parks,
00:07:59.480 which is still illegal, and he stops the police from actually cleaning up the encampments.
00:08:05.080 This guy is a radical. He has an anti-Semitic base who literally kicked out one of their own
00:08:10.780 ministers from her job for being Jewish, basically. This is a party ruled by activists, and it doesn't 0.53
00:08:17.700 matter how much they promise to moderate, the party is run by the people who hate the moderates.
00:08:23.680 They want the policies that David Eby has been implementing over the last four years
00:08:28.000 even harder. They want the policies to get even more intense, because they are true believers
00:08:33.500 who think that the policy just needs to be implemented hard enough, and eventually we will
00:08:38.620 crack through to the utopian dream that we keep painting. It's not happening. If you want normal,
00:08:44.560 it's not happening with the NDP. It's only happening with the BC conservatives. And that's why I urge you,
00:08:50.200 if you live in British Columbia, don't just vote for the BC conservatives. You have to volunteer and
00:08:56.100 donate. If you want the change made, you can't assume someone else is going to donate and volunteer.
00:09:01.020 You have to do it, or nobody else is going to do it. That's the mentality everyone has to have
00:09:05.560 when it comes to politics these days. So I have the BC conservative donation link in the description
00:09:12.000 of this video below. They are not paying me to promote them. I want to do it to make sure that BC
00:09:17.340 goes back to a better, new, normal status quo, and that we defend it. Make sure that BC stops being
00:09:24.500 the repository of all the most radical policies that get imported into the rest of the province.
00:09:29.240 I know none of you in British Columbia were cool with this, so let's make sure that it stops now.
00:09:35.140 And then also, if you don't live in British Columbia, you can donate to my legal fund.
00:09:39.020 Don't have to. I know I mention it a lot. It's not because I'm insolvent or something,
00:09:43.340 but it does help us pay for all the massive amount of legal costs we've incurred from this Chinese 1.00
00:09:48.060 billionaire suing us, a billionaire developer suing us for defamation. Defamation,
00:09:52.380 he cannot prove. And over two years of this case ongoing, it's been actually like two and a half
00:09:57.560 years, he still hasn't presented any evidence to prove that we have defamed him. And we have
00:10:02.220 presented a lot of evidence to prove that he knows he wasn't defamed by us. Anyways, that should be it
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