David Eby's NDP are losing the BC election - This is why...
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Summary
David Eby is not going to be British Columbia's next premier because he's awkward. That's why he should be in the backbenches of the BCNDP, polishing door handles and getting people glasses of water as a staffer.
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Things are not looking so hot for British Columbia Premier David Eby and his BC NDP party.
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Not only are they now only tied in the polls with the BC Conservatives, a party that effectively
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didn't exist more than a year and a half ago, they are tied 37-37 at the moment, and when
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you actually look at the underlying numbers, the Conservatives have much more momentum
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with voters, with over half of voters considering voting for them, whereas the BC NDP only have
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about 40% of voters even considering casting a ballot for them.
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He even has a lot of people defecting from his cabinet.
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But that's not the main reason that David Eby is not going to be Premier after October.
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The main reason that David Eby is not going to be Premier is because he is awkwardness personified.
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This is why there is such little confidence in him, both in the public as well as inside
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And I don't mean that he's a bad person on a fundamental level.
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He's very mechanical in the way he interacts with people.
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And at the same time, he's very unserious in his policy.
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At the very least, if he was competent on policy, affordability was getting better, houses
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were being put up, we were cracking down on crime and scrapping decriminalization programs.
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People would say, well, you know, a little bit robotic, but he knows what he's doing.
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It's like, no, he doesn't know what he's doing and he's awkward on top of that.
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So I'm going to show you a video in a second that I think encapsulates why David Eby is
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not a candidate that should be running for Premier.
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He should be in the back benches of the BCNDP, if not just polishing door handles and getting
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He is a protester who somehow became the Premier of British Columbia, getting acclaimed in
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a NDP leadership race to become the Premier instantly, having never actually proven himself
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both before he was in politics or when he is in politics.
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To put a fine point on it, John Horgan wanted to be as far away from British Columbia as
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He doesn't want to be in the vicinity of David Eby while he's running the province because
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Right now, right before I get into the video, I also just want to mention I actually am on
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the ground in Abbotsford in British Columbia helping out Bruce Bandman's campaign.
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So if you guys want to help contribute to defeating the BCNDP if you live in British Columbia, I have
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a donation link for the Abbotsford South riding in the description below.
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We want to get this riding fully funded so we can make sure that these ridings in Abbotsford
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are fully locked down for the BC Conservatives.
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And then we can start moving our forces more towards Metro Vancouver.
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We have a path to win and we are following that path very dedicatedly.
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There's nothing really in the wrong in terms of the content of the video.
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Them, you know, announcing that there's going to be more housing projects started.
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The text of this says, in Whistler, housing is hard to find and afford.
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We're building 100 new homes so families like hers can stay, work, and raise their kids in
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Like, one, I'd love to see what the actual spending was on these homes and how long it's
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If it's the government that's directly involved, it's going to take probably months longer and
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hundreds of thousands of dollars more per household than it should.
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But this video is all of the awkwardness of David Eby that you could ever want to watch.
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We moved away for a year and when we came back, there was nothing available.
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We actually spent two years living in an RV while we waited out finding housing.
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When we finally got into Whistler Housing Authority housing, which does mean that...
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This lady is telling him about her housing problems and then you have David Eby there
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just like staring at her like he's an ostrich or an emu just looking at some food on the
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He does not know how to come off as charismatic.
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He's just staring at her like he's a large bird looking at a piece of corn he's going to
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But just the way that these things are framed, he's so much taller than her.
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And he's both filming it himself as well as staring at her.
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We can establish our life here and potentially live here for longer than a season.
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And behind us, it doesn't look like much, but it's a great lot to explain.
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It's just great to know that we can stay here long term, but we're not, you know, possibly
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going to have a house sold out from underneath.
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He looks like he hates her or something like that.
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He just again, he's just staring there like down at her.
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And for some reason, they took a woman who's like five foot two.
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And now he's just like staring down into her soul with no connection to her, with like
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the worst audio from his phone you could possibly get.
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Beneath us that we have affordable rent that allows us to continue living and working in
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our community that we've built around us and a place that we enjoy living and a place
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And so we're really thankful to have affordable housing.
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You know, affordability is a huge part of the solution.
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David Eby actually used to be popular when he first became premier, as all premiers are
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when you first become premier, especially just out of nowhere, like, you know, they appoint
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Usually your approval rating starts off well, especially if you're on the left because the media
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pumps you up a lot and you haven't done anything wrong technically yet.
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So David Eby started off before Rob Canoo came around as the most popular premier in
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And now currently he's like in either in the middle of the pack or the lower end of the
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He has like an approval rating of below 40% at this point.
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He deteriorated so fast because as people get to know David, the policy sucks.
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You know, he does not let his own caucus make decisions.
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Andrew Weaver, the former Green Party leader of British Columbia came out and he actually
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said good things about the conservative leader, John Rustad, even though potentially they maybe
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But he's saying that guy isn't actually a leader.
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He actually lets his caucus do what they want, say what they want.
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Their candidates are able to actually speak out.
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David Eby's cabinet and his government is run like a dictatorship, a dictatorship run by
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I mean the person who is unable to understand that actions have consequences because he doesn't
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care about all of the consequences, decriminalization programs, different tax schemes.
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At the same time that they're trying to frame their opponents in the BC Conservative Party
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as the party for the rich, he announced a new subsidy program to give $10,000 tax credits
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for people who install $15,000 solar panel installations.
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At the same time, some people can't afford groceries.
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So he wants to try and attack the conservatives for being the party of the rich because they
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want to give everybody tax relief through getting rid of the carbon tax and lowering provincial
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At the same time, he's giving out tax credits to those who can already afford $15,000 solar
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Who's struggling is going to pull up $15,000 from their wallets in order to put up a solar
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panel on their home just to get the provincial government tax credit.
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That is a way of buying votes from upper middle class people in the Vancouver and Victoria areas.
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And again, Andrew Weaver noted that unlike when John Horgan was premier, which I don't
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agree with John Horgan's policies, but I can agree with the way he manages a government,
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that John Horgan let cabinet ministers do what they wanted.
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When they did policy announcements, when there was a new policy or there was some update,
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they would be the ones leading the press conference.
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Now, David Eby leads all of them, being the least competent person to lead any of these
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And you got this cabinet minister sitting in the back like they don't even know why they're
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This is why, again, a party that got 2% of the polls is now leading in the seat projections
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And that's early on right now while the polls are still tied.
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Again, way more people are considering voting conservative at this point than NDP.
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Only 44% of BC residents are considering voting NDP, with only 2% still undecided.
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Conservatives, 51% are considering voting for them, with 8% still undecided.
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And if they even just take half of that 8%, 55% of people are considering voting for them.
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David Eby is an impossible situation right now.
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Because in order to win, as you see in the federal polling, BC is about 50-50.
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50% of people are voting CPC, PPC, and then the other 50% are voting for left-wing parties.
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So right now, the provincial conservatives have access to basically the full 50% because
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all the other parties, United, the NDP, the Greens, are all on the left.
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And so for David Eby to win, because the Greens have about 15%, 12% of the vote, United has
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about 10%, David Eby only has about 30% of the left-wing vote that isn't already eaten
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And so he's going to have to rely on the impossible scenario that some people who like
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peer poly up on a federal level, who wants to scrap the carbon tax, are then going to
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cross over and vote David Eby provincially for the NDP, who wants to keep the provincial
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He's walking a tightrope that doesn't even actually exist because there's no voter outside
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of an infinitesimally small, less than maybe a third of a percent of people, who are going
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to make that weird pick that they're going to vote Polyev and then Eby.
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Maybe they just like, I don't know, maybe they like how awkward Eby is.
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Polyev and Eby aren't even the same people in terms of personality.
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Not in closing policy, personality, leadership style.
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If you live in BC, go down to the link below and you can donate to the Abbotsford South
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It doesn't matter if you live in Abbotsford South or not.
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We want to get this riding fully funded so then we can start transferring money to other
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That's what I didn't realize before I came out from Alberta.
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I thought the federal donation limits were low at $1,700.
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In BC, it's only $1,400 and all the restrictions on how you can fundraise are insane.
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It is basically trying to benefit left-wing parties with union connections who can have
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You know, also the media basically is spending money promoting the BC NDP by trying to smooth
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In two and a half years, he hasn't even shown how he defamed him.
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He's just merely stating that he feels defamed.
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