The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 07, 2024


Eby and the BC NDP know the Conservatives can beat them


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The BC NDP is using John Horgan's cancer diagnosis as an excuse to get more voters to sign up for a list of potential candidates to target in the upcoming fall election. I don t think you could find a stronger indication that British Columbia Premier David Eby and the BC NDP know that John Rotheray's Conservatives can beat them than the desperate things the NDP are doing to mine data to find new voters.

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00:00:00.000 I don't think you could find a stronger indication that British Columbia Premier David Eby and his BC NDP party know that John Rested's conservatives can beat them in the fall election than the very desperate things that the NDP are doing in order to mine data.
00:00:15.740 They know a lot of people in the province do not like them, so they need their data lists to be as full as humanly possible to find more voters to market to, because their current base of people are really only voting for them because they assumed that the BC NDP were going to win, and as more people figure out that the conservatives are a viable option, they are quickly migrating.
00:00:36.200 That's what happened to BC United once people knew that the BC conservatives were a real thing, they all left, and now there's a lot of NDP voters who are blue-collar who line up far more with the style of John Rested, who are wondering why they'd ever vote for this random protester who happens to be Premier David Eby.
00:00:53.020 But right now, the NDP are currently using the relapsing cancer diagnosis of their former leader and Premier, John Horgan, to mine data to email people.
00:01:04.240 It's pretty disgusting, they're doing this whole, you know, tell John Horgan, you're rooting for him, you know, he's a fighter for us, so we want to cheer him on in his latest battle with cancer.
00:01:13.880 And, you know, I obviously hope that John Horgan recovers, he's a good guy, you know, I wouldn't have voted for him, I'm a conservative.
00:01:20.060 But, you know, he's a more populist NDP guy who doesn't absolutely screw over the working class through higher taxes on everything, you know, higher crime, drugs everywhere and whatnot, the way David Eby does.
00:01:33.080 And right here at the bottom of this page, where you can give them your information, it says,
00:01:38.000 the information you share with us may be used to keep you updated about this and other BC NDP activities in accordance with our privacy policies.
00:01:46.780 And their privacy policies pretty much just read, we will use your data for whatever we want.
00:01:52.540 I'm going to go off on a limb and say that you're mostly not going to get emails if you sign up onto this list about John Horgan.
00:01:58.640 You're probably mostly just going to get emails asking for money, or to, you know, forget about all the terrible things the BC NDP have done in the past,
00:02:07.340 because, hey, we have a bunch of big bloated new initiatives that aren't going to help you, but they sound fun and sparkly.
00:02:14.240 And so what I want to sort of jump into is just, one, how much this demonstrates that the BC NDP knows that they're in a vulnerable position.
00:02:24.260 It doesn't matter that they're ahead in most of the polls.
00:02:26.840 The problem with the NDP right now is they're relying on what we call soft support.
00:02:33.060 People who thought, like the last election, because most people don't really clue into what's going on in the election until the Ritz dropped and they, you know,
00:02:40.560 it starts coming on the news a lot. So most people are still saying to pollsters,
00:02:44.520 I'm going to vote NDP because they're still thinking in the mind and the frame of the last election between the BC NDP and the BC Liberals,
00:02:51.840 two parties that are effectively interchangeable.
00:02:54.520 But when John Horgan was running the NDP, they were considered a much better option than the BC Liberals under Christy Clark or whoever the leader was in the last election.
00:03:03.880 I think it was still Kevin Falcon. It was still Kevin Falcon. Oh, goodness, they're still running that guy.
00:03:08.540 It's sad. Or are they? I don't even know. The BC Liberals and United are so irrelevant to this point.
00:03:13.380 I don't even care to remember the details.
00:03:15.420 But a lot of people, once they realize that the BC Conservatives are the true contenders with the NDP,
00:03:21.440 because the BC Conservatives were effectively not a real party a year ago,
00:03:24.920 a lot of people are going to start shifting. And the BC NDP knows this.
00:03:28.460 Just look at the polling. And this is mostly only going to be tracking a certain portion of people paying attention.
00:03:35.140 That when in midway through 2023, we see the BC Conservatives go from less than 10% of support all the way up to now being in about the mid to low 30s.
00:03:46.700 The BC NDP are riding a little bit above 40% on average.
00:03:50.780 But as you can see with the little dots, they have pulled lower.
00:03:53.900 And in some cases, the BC Conservatives have pulled higher than them.
00:03:56.940 The BC NDP might run into the problem that the Labour Party did in the UK.
00:04:02.560 While the Labour Party won a massive majority, that's only because they were running against the Tories who nobody liked,
00:04:08.920 and reform didn't really have enough runway in order to take off and rise higher than what they got with 14% of the vote.
00:04:15.880 So the Labour Party won a big stinking majority government with only 34% of the vote.
00:04:21.480 The problem for the BC NDP is people very much like the BC Conservatives and they are quickly moving over to them.
00:04:28.400 But what I suspect will happen is that the BC NDP, while they have support, their support is going to be very soft and it's going to be very unlikely to show up in the same percentages that the BC Conservatives' base is going to show up in.
00:04:42.260 And now we have the BC NDP doing more and more desperate things in their marketing, basically saying that we're fighting back against the parties of the rich,
00:04:51.740 which is the BC Conservatives and the BC United pretending that the United is even still in the conversation here,
00:04:57.720 even though when you see in the polling, they're actually starting to fall below the BC Greens in some of the polling.
00:05:03.820 The latest poll put them in fourth place decisively, four points behind the BC Greens.
00:05:09.180 But now what we have going on is these ads, I'm going to bring it up on here for a second,
00:05:14.440 where the BC NDP is trying to push this idea that they're the ones fighting back against the rich.
00:05:21.940 And John Rustad and Kevin Falcon are getting in the way, even though they do not have the power to stop EB from doing anything he wants.
00:05:28.440 With respect to Kevin Falcon and John Rustad and their suggestion that our tax on luxury cars,
00:05:39.100 that our tax on homes above $3 million, that our tax on the top 2% of income earners in British Columbia
00:05:47.880 are taxes that they would roll back, that our tax on speculators that own two, three, four homes and are leaving them vacant,
00:05:55.740 that our tax on tobacco products to discourage people from using tobacco.
00:06:06.080 Sorry about that few second delay and then a jump back to me talking again.
00:06:10.600 The internet I'm using is very unstable, so I had to pause it and then restart recording it after a second there.
00:06:16.140 But you get the picture of what David Eby is trying to do.
00:06:18.940 They are standing up for the rich.
00:06:20.340 They want to roll back all the luxury taxes, even though the main platform point of the BC Conservatives
00:06:25.520 is to get rid of the provincial carbon tax in conjunction with getting rid of the federal carbon tax of Pierre Polyev.
00:06:32.720 This is deeply silly, too, for David Eby to be doing, because he has a record of actually serving rich people.
00:06:39.920 And in general, I think that we should be reducing taxes on everyone for any reason possible.
00:06:44.340 There's really no tax that exists outside of tax on cigarettes that I think are necessary to have at higher rates.
00:06:52.260 But David Eby is trying to now play the populist hero that somebody like Wob Canu is trying to do in Manitoba,
00:06:59.500 but Wob Canu is an actual skilled politician, so he can pull it off.
00:07:03.020 Or David Eby can't because everyone knows who he is.
00:07:05.980 He's a protester in the premier's office, whining and crying at anyone who doesn't accept his agenda.
00:07:11.740 He doesn't actually care if you're rich or poor, as long as you're with him on certain things, he will serve you.
00:07:17.200 And that's why we have stuff like this happening.
00:07:19.580 BC Hydro to offer rebates for solar panels battery storage.
00:07:23.780 So now the BC government is going to pay rich people tens of thousands of dollars back in tax credits
00:07:31.240 if they install very expensive solar panels on their homes or storage batteries on their properties that store solar power.
00:07:39.560 This is something that is obviously meant to please upper middle class BC residents who supposedly David Eby is fighting back against.
00:07:48.340 He's going after the top 2% of earners and making sure that they can feed hungry kids,
00:07:52.980 which he talked about a little bit later in that clip, because, you know, supposedly it's the rich not being taxed up,
00:07:58.800 and that's why kids are going to school hungry.
00:08:00.640 Not because he's been the premier for three years now, and previous to that, John Horgan was the premier for five years,
00:08:07.820 and things have gotten very unaffordable because of their poor performance during COVID,
00:08:11.980 because of their raising taxes all across the board,
00:08:15.100 their backing of Justin Trudeau's federal environmental regulations and taxes on all stuff like that.
00:08:22.040 It's funny how he's been in power for a long time, and people are worse off.
00:08:26.000 Affordability is worse than ever. Kids are going hungry, but that's John Rustad and Kevin Falcon's problem, I guess,
00:08:33.560 because John Rustad hasn't been believing in David Eby enough, like he's Tinkerbell,
00:08:38.260 believing that if David Eby just taxes rich people more, everything can be solved,
00:08:42.580 because the way David Eby frames this is that, you know, everything would be great
00:08:46.640 if the opposition was just on board with what we were doing.
00:08:49.740 You guys have a big majority. You can do whatever you want, and somehow that's still not enough to get anything done that's productive.
00:08:57.260 And the reason behind that is he doesn't actually care to get anything productive done.
00:09:00.940 He is an environmental crazy and an anti-cop weirdo who somehow became the premier of a province
00:09:07.200 and is now in re-election mode trying to pretend that everything that he did in office was actually John Rustad's fault.
00:09:13.360 We'll elect even more NDP MLAs, and somehow we will be able to reverse all the problems by raising taxes even harder.
00:09:21.740 These people know that they can lose. These people have way too much soft support.
00:09:25.940 I would suspect that two-thirds of the BC NDP voters are swayable towards any of the other parties,
00:09:32.300 the Greens, the United, or the Conservatives, whereas the Conservatives, if you're voting Conservative,
00:09:36.980 maybe, maybe, like 10% of BC Conservative voters could be swayed to a different party, but I really doubt it.
00:09:44.620 You don't usually jump on board with a new party if you're only, you know, sort of tipping your toe in
00:09:49.740 and you're not sure if this is the party for you.
00:09:52.460 The BC NDP is running off the legacy of John Horgan, and that's why they're bringing up his cancer relapse
00:09:59.220 in order to mine data, because people actually like John Horgan.
00:10:02.300 You know, fun fact, too, John Horgan hates David Eby. John Horgan thinks David Eby's a twit.
00:10:08.660 David Eby couldn't win a leadership campaign inside the BC NDP without heavy assistance.
00:10:15.820 That's why the BC NDP higher-ups, who for some reason, they like David Eby,
00:10:20.040 they forced out any other people who were planning on running against him for the leadership of the party.
00:10:25.120 They discouraged anyone else from jumping in the race, and they literally just acclaimed him.
00:10:29.040 This guy who looks like he should be running for student union president at UBC became the premier
00:10:35.460 just simply because the BC NDP said, let's have a hyper-progressive run the province and let's see how that works out.
00:10:42.500 And now we have more needles on the street than ever.
00:10:44.920 Crimes higher, education quality is going down, healthcare quality is definitely going down.
00:10:50.460 John Horgan is not flying back home from Germany, where he's the current ambassador.
00:10:54.720 I think the ambassador for, like, Canada or whatever.
00:10:58.480 He's not flying back home to BC to get his cancer treatments.
00:11:01.220 He's staying in Berlin.
00:11:02.520 It's not just because of his love of the job.
00:11:04.480 It's because he can actually get healthcare in Berlin, in Germany.
00:11:09.420 In British Columbia, wait times to get a knee surgery are like 63 weeks.
00:11:13.500 It's the worst in Canada.
00:11:14.940 Getting a cancer treatment is even going to be worse.
00:11:17.460 It doesn't matter who you are.
00:11:18.580 You can't get up in front of the line because, one, he kicked out all the unvaccinated nurses and doctors. 0.95
00:11:24.580 And then, two, David Eby also just decided that, you know, who cares about actually increasing capacity?
00:11:31.160 Let's just keep spending on stupid drug programs rather than actually expanding real healthcare and incarcerating people selling drugs. 0.74
00:11:38.020 Let's actually have the government become a drug dealer. 1.00
00:11:40.300 Well, that should be it for me today, guys, though.
00:11:45.440 If you want to donate to the British Columbia Conservatives and you live in BC, I will have a link in the description below for their donation page.
00:11:53.240 I will emphasize, I'm someone who, I live in Alberta, so I can't donate to them.
00:11:57.580 Anytime I've been involved in a campaign or wanted somebody to win a race, I, even when I have not had a lot of money, have donated sometimes thousands of dollars to a campaign to get it off the ground.
00:12:08.180 If you guys have the capacity to give $100, you get a 75% tax credit back in BC.
00:12:14.020 I am not paid by the Conservatives to promote them.
00:12:16.180 I am not paid to get you to donate to them.
00:12:18.160 I am merely promoting that you donate to them because if you want to pay lower tax in the long run, you want better education for your kids, you want lower crime, you want all of that good stuff.
00:12:27.820 At some point, you've got to donate yourself and not expect that somebody else is going to donate on your behalf.
00:12:32.560 In the last quarter, the BC Conservatives went from only raising about $400,000 in the first quarter to raising $1.1 million in the second quarter, a massive increase.
00:12:43.100 The BC United Party has absolutely collapsed in its fundraising between the first and second quarter of 2024, but the BC NDP still raised $2 million in the second quarter.
00:12:52.360 So for the BC Conservatives to fight a really good fight for the province to get David Eby out of office, consider donating because if you don't donate, nobody else is, and they need a war chest in order to get rid of the NDP.
00:13:05.320 It can't simply just be through social media advertising and a few photo ops here and there.
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00:13:12.200 It has to be getting literature in the doors.
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00:14:20.360 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:14:23.000 Sorry this video has been very choppy at times.
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