The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 12, 2024


BC NDP is out of ideas (BC Conservatives momentum)


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9 minutes

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1,699

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115

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David Eby and the BC NDP can t seem to figure out what to run on in British Columbia's upcoming election. They ve been flailing around and reacting to the BC Conservative campaign, and now they ve got nothing to go on but abortion and IVF.

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00:00:00.000 While the BC NDP are currently ahead in the British Columbia provincial election polls,
00:00:06.120 David Eby and his BC NDP can't even seem to figure out what their own campaign is about.
00:00:11.920 They have no real big idea to run on or broad positive vision.
00:00:15.660 They're simply flailing around and reacting to what the BC Conservatives are doing,
00:00:20.760 a big tell that they know that they're behind.
00:00:24.060 A problem for Eby and the NDP is that they have no accomplishments in government.
00:00:29.880 Everything has gotten worse since the BC NDP took over in 2017.
00:00:34.780 And now, all they can really run on is this vague notion that somehow the BC Conservatives
00:00:40.520 would do a worse job than they are currently doing.
00:00:43.260 They can't say that they've done a great job and that's why you should keep them in office.
00:00:47.580 It's just that, you know, we know we suck, but maybe John Rustad and the Conservatives could suck more,
00:00:53.060 which there is a 0% chance of.
00:00:55.140 Everything the BC Conservatives want to do are tried and true, tested policies that actually make a province flourish.
00:01:03.460 Lowering taxes, lowering regulations, letting people do their own thing with their own money and businesses.
00:01:10.960 And now, the BC NDP, having nothing to really run on, are flailing on issues like IVF and abortion,
00:01:18.180 as if anybody cared about that in this provincial election.
00:01:21.540 This is what happened to Stephen Harper back in 2015.
00:01:25.260 Stephen Harper was a good Conservative Prime Minister of Canada, but his 2015 campaign was frankly soulless.
00:01:34.140 It had no real big idea behind it.
00:01:36.080 It had no vision.
00:01:37.280 It was that the Conservatives have done a pretty good job, so keep us in because the NDP and the Liberals are irresponsible.
00:01:44.660 Justin Trudeau is just not ready.
00:01:46.320 It was a very weak campaign, thanks to Jenny Byrne and the rest of the Conservative consultants that wanted to play it safe. 0.55
00:01:53.180 David Eby is in an even worse position, because he can't even say he did a good job.
00:01:58.140 He's done a terrible job, and then he's just basically casting spursions at his BC Conservative opponents.
00:02:05.640 And you can tell they don't know what they're doing based on their own election posts.
00:02:11.000 This is something from the BC NDP's own Twitter account.
00:02:14.540 It reads,
00:02:15.660 David Eby and the BC NDP team are taking action to lower IVF costs and provide free birth control,
00:02:22.520 ensuring that everyone has the right to make their own choices about starting their family.
00:02:27.340 Rustead's $4.1 billion in healthcare cuts puts it all at risk.
00:02:32.000 And first of all, the BC Conservatives are not cutting healthcare spending.
00:02:36.520 The BC Conservatives released a policy document that said that in time, our per capita costs might be able to go down because we might be able to run the system more efficiently in the long run,
00:02:50.380 which the BC NDP are pretending are cuts when it really would just be lower per capita costs to get better results.
00:02:58.280 But regardless, the BC NDP are trying to make IVF and birth control a big election issue in British Columbia.
00:03:05.540 People can't afford groceries.
00:03:08.520 People can't afford rent.
00:03:10.540 And they want to talk about, they want to talk about IVF and abortion and birth control.
00:03:16.160 Well, that's a big issue that they've been trying to swing at, is pretending that the BC Conservatives are wanting to, like, restrict abortion.
00:03:24.320 They haven't brought it up.
00:03:25.520 Do you know how I know that they're not running a pro-life agenda?
00:03:28.920 Because I'm pro-life and I don't detect anything pro-life about what the BC Conservatives are doing.
00:03:34.060 Because frankly, BC Conservatives, BC residents don't really want to talk about that issue because affordability issues are so bad right now.
00:03:41.580 You go through the BC NDP's timeline on their ex-account, and it's nonsense.
00:03:47.660 The BC NDP posting this video,
00:03:49.700 John Rusted's candidates are talking, taking a page out of Trump's playbook.
00:03:53.440 We should be protecting and increasing access to abortion.
00:03:56.200 But too many of Rusted's candidates have spoken up against it.
00:03:59.100 They literally have not.
00:04:00.380 They've tried to attack Brian Berguet, the BC Conservative candidate for Vancouver Langara on this issue.
00:04:07.140 When I personally know Brian, he is pro-choice.
00:04:10.620 He's not a pro-life person, and he is somehow anti-abortion.
00:04:15.540 But the NDP don't have anything to run on, so the BC Conservatives need to be anti-everything progressive.
00:04:22.600 Because even the BC NDP are having a problem getting progressives out to vote for them.
00:04:28.200 Because things aren't better.
00:04:29.940 It doesn't matter how progressive you are.
00:04:32.040 You're probably just going to stay home this election because there really isn't anything inspiring to vote for.
00:04:37.540 I'm going to keep going down, but they literally posted.
00:04:41.440 I'm not sure if it's still up.
00:04:43.360 Oh, that's telling.
00:04:44.100 They deleted it.
00:04:45.180 So this is not up on their page anymore.
00:04:49.420 But yesterday, during the presidential debates in the U.S., the BC NDP started tweeting out videos of Kamala Harris.
00:04:57.680 Why?
00:04:59.580 What does the Democrat candidate in the U.S.A. have to do with the BC NDP?
00:05:05.120 I don't know.
00:05:06.280 The BC NDP are just soulless, and so they have nothing to run on.
00:05:10.360 And so they started tweeting out videos of somebody, like, I don't know, talking about...
00:05:15.680 They had a video of Kamala Harris laughing at John Rustad.
00:05:22.200 It didn't make any sense to me.
00:05:23.460 Oh, wait, never mind.
00:05:24.600 It's still up.
00:05:25.980 I don't know why this exists.
00:05:27.740 This is something from their actual account.
00:05:29.840 It just says, uh-huh.
00:05:31.580 This is the audio that goes along with it.
00:05:33.880 You know, I always like to joke, and I mean, this is a sad reality, but how is it that we've convinced carbon-based beings that carbon is a problem?
00:05:44.400 And this is the BC NDP trying to attack John Rustad for not having a climate alarmist's view of climate change.
00:05:52.640 John Rustad says he believes in climate change.
00:05:54.700 He just doesn't believe in the alarmist view that we're going to be underwater in 10 years, and then when that doesn't happen, actually, it's going to be the next 10 years.
00:06:02.440 And then when that doesn't happen, it's going to be the next 10 years.
00:06:05.480 That's John Rustad's position.
00:06:07.360 That's the position of the vast majority of people who live in BC.
00:06:11.340 Yeah, the climate changes, but me riding the bus isn't going to make a difference.
00:06:17.320 Me getting rid of all my cars is not what's going to actually make the climate reverse.
00:06:21.780 For the most part, we don't have that much control over it, especially as a singular province in a country that's not a big contributor.
00:06:28.780 But anyways, they're going to talk about climate change as the main issue of this election, climate change and IVF, when again, people can't afford groceries.
00:06:40.260 There was a 13-year-old girl the other day who was found dead in a homeless encampment who had overdosed on opioids, on illicit drugs, that the BC government was providing her.
00:06:53.100 However, she got addicted to opioids when she was 11 years old.
00:06:56.980 I'm not sure how that happened, but her parents wanted to be able to bring her in for involuntary treatment.
00:07:03.520 And the BC government said, no, she has to agree to do the treatment or we're not allowed to make her do it. 1.00
00:07:09.720 So this girl who's 13 years old, who dies in a homeless encampment of an overdose on safe supply drugs, mind you, using crack pipes and snorting kits provided by the BC government, she can't buy cigarettes.
00:07:23.500 She can't get a drink of alcohol at a bar, but she can go and get safe supply, meth, heroin, you know, hydromorphone, all this garbage. 1.00
00:07:35.080 This government is out of touch in the most extreme way possible.
00:07:39.740 They don't have any ideas.
00:07:41.060 And that's why they're just attacking the BC conservatives.
00:07:43.860 They know the BC conservatives have momentum and their only chance of surviving is dulling the momentum because there ain't no big David Eby fans around BC.
00:07:53.640 They just have to hope that enough people don't like John Restead that David Eby is able to retain his position in office.
00:08:00.940 I really don't think they're going to be able to pull it off because it's a change election.
00:08:05.700 People want change.
00:08:07.020 As simplistic as that sounds, it's true.
00:08:09.640 Things are not good and people will vote for the party that actually will deliver 180 degree change in direction.
00:08:19.000 And so the BC NDP thinking that they're going to scare Monk or people into thinking that the conservatives are far right.
00:08:24.780 And hey, look, the BC conservative manager once did the OK sign to troll some lefty people.
00:08:32.240 OK, does that make my groceries cost less if I vote NDP because I'm mad about that?
00:08:37.680 No, it doesn't.
00:08:38.320 Most people are going to vote and are going to vote BC conservative in this election.
00:08:43.460 It's going to be like, you know, tough election.
00:08:45.660 If you guys can contribute to the BC conservative campaign, I have a link to the Abbotsford South EDA.
00:08:51.600 Donate there.
00:08:52.380 And what we will do is package it up and send it out to other ridings in need.
00:08:57.240 But I guess that's pretty much it for me today, guys.
00:09:00.100 Make sure you contribute to the BC conservatives if you live in the province.
00:09:03.960 Right now, the NDP is able to fund itself mostly off of taxpayer dollars because they have forced the taxpayers to give them $2 per vote that they got in the last election every year.
00:09:15.120 And they got 50% of their campaign expenses given back to them after the last campaign because they got more than 10% in all the ridings.
00:09:23.660 So they get 50% of their campaign expenses paid for by taxpayers.
00:09:27.840 It's absolutely insane.
00:09:29.120 So if you live in BC, make sure to contribute to the BC conservative so that we can get David Eby out of office.
00:09:36.440 I'm really tripping up in this video.
00:09:38.300 Sorry about that, guys.
00:09:39.880 But that should be it for me.
00:09:41.080 If you guys don't live in BC, you can contribute to my Give, Send, Go legal fund campaign in the description below.
00:09:46.440 And I'll see you guys next time.