The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Eby Stealing Power With BC Snap Election - Chaos Ensues

00:00:00.000 Despite already having a majority government and two years left on his term, British Columbia Premier David Eby has called a snap election that will no doubt be very chaotic.

00:00:14.020 This thing did not need to happen whatsoever, but because the BC and DP are not very popular

00:00:20.500 and they know they'd probably lose an election in two years, they're calling it right now

00:00:25.120 because the Conservatives are in chaos because they don't know if they actually want to be

00:00:29.880 Conservative or not. 1BC, the party I am the Communications Director for, actually just

00:00:35.320 picked up a Conservative MLA today who has crossed the floor and joined 1BC, that being

00:00:41.200 the husband of Carrie Lynn Finley, Brent Chapman. You will remember that Carrie Lynn Finley was

00:00:46.780 removed as the leader of the B.C. Conservative Party despite being voted in by the members of

00:00:52.360 that party back in May. After she was elected the Conservative Party leader in May, there was just

00:00:58.280 harassment, bullying, threats, and all this other stuff thrown against her to basically veto the

00:01:05.860 leadership vote because the bc liberals didn't like her yes they lost the leadership race but

00:01:12.600 the last place finisher peter milibar and other liberals in the caucus basically plotted against 0.79

00:01:19.100 her to get her removed like switching parties to center bc leaking on her constantly until they 0.98

00:01:26.200 basically mentally broke her and made her just say that i need to resign because i can't handle 0.93

00:01:31.600 this anymore and i don't blame her but that is how undemocratic democratic politics is right now

00:01:38.660 in british columbia it is not the province of british columbia it is the province of vancouver

00:01:45.220 and vancouver guys didn't like carrie lynn finley so despite the fact that the conservatives don't

00:01:51.360 even really need many vancouver seats if any at all to win a provincial election well let's get

00:01:58.060 rid of KLF let's bring in an interim leader and no doubt some BC liberal wants to eventually

00:02:03.500 replace the interim leader someday because this is I guess going to help us win no one BC might

00:02:12.880 not be able to win this election I'll be right up front with you with that if anything we are

00:02:17.340 playing to make sure that we have seats in the legislature full transparency the BC conservatives

00:02:23.880 probably can't win either because of all the shenanigans going on you're gonna vote for the

00:02:29.560 party that just cooed their leader and invited back the people who basically knifed her that

00:02:35.480 seems like a not great prospect for voting but the ndp could also lose the election too because

00:02:41.680 there are so many people who hate this you're gonna have left-wing splitting votes towards

00:02:46.420 the greens center bc is still technically around with eleanor sterko leading the party now

00:02:51.420 votes could split over there votes could split over to the conservatives no doubt a lot of

00:02:57.100 carrie lynn finley fans are going to be voting for dallas brody and the one bc party now it is the

00:03:03.080 1996 bc provincial election all over again but i don't even know who's going to come out on top

00:03:08.980 or if anyone's even going to be able to win a government i just want to quickly cut over to

00:03:15.000 David Eby here, trying to justify the election that we're going into. Also, of course, I'm going

00:03:22.120 to quickly plug, hey, if you like the channel, make sure to leave a like on the video, subscribe

00:03:26.660 if you're not a subscriber, all that good stuff. But here is David Eby trying to somehow come up

00:03:33.800 with a fig leaf reason why he needs this election. And of course, the reason is Donald Trump.

00:03:40.220 Choice about the direction.

00:03:41.700 America, how afraid were you to run on your own record?

00:03:49.420 That journalist just there, right there, basically asked David Eby, so this looks like you're afraid to run on your own record in two years, in 2028, when the actual election was supposed to be held.

00:04:03.020 And it seems like you really want to run against Donald Trump instead.

00:04:06.900 That is immediately what every British Columbian is thinking.

00:04:10.760 This is the only reason he's doing it.

00:04:12.960 He doesn't want to run under his own terrible record,

00:04:15.620 so he's going to try and pull Mark Carney and run against Donald Trump.

00:04:20.280 I hope that British Columbians see what we've been doing.

00:04:28.480 We have connected a million people to a family doctor.

00:04:32.640 We have built 250 schools when the previous government closed 250 schools.

00:04:38.040 We have strengthened our infrastructure,

00:04:39.820 pressure, and we are delivering $100 billion in major projects in the next 24 months.

00:04:46.820 We have been building the firebreak.

00:04:49.380 But there is so much more work to do.

00:04:52.260 There's so much more work to do.

00:04:53.420 That's why we're going to stop doing the work and go to an election to get myself, at best,

00:04:58.980 a different majority.

00:05:01.080 Because you can already pass everything you want.

00:05:03.820 Left wing parties tend to be very collectivist.

00:05:06.880 never going to have your own MLAs really rebelling against you on issues. He even picked up an extra

00:05:13.780 NDP MLA because Amelia Boltby, great choice by the Conservative Brain Trust back in 2024,

00:05:20.440 Amelia Boltby, a then-conservative MLA, crossed the floor and joined the NDP. And then, even though

00:05:27.820 Joan Phillip had died, the Vancouver Strathcona by-election was obviously going to be won by

00:05:34.260 the NDP. It's one of the safest NDP ridings in the entire province. He could have absolutely

00:05:39.960 held on and kept pushing through his agenda if he wanted. He just knows that if he actually waits

00:05:46.060 the last two years, all of the rot setting in is eventually going to have him thrown out of office

00:05:51.320 or his own MLAs might want to replace him as leader, like what happened with Justin Trudeau.

00:05:56.820 You can't sit back and say, oh, you know, our exports to other places are up 16%. We should

00:06:01.820 be okay. It's headed in the right direction. We've got to do more. Families are hurting.

00:06:07.940 The price of gas, the price of groceries, the price of essentials, they're struggling.

00:06:14.440 They need our support. Businesses are facing an uncertain environment. They need to know that

00:06:19.460 they've got a government in their corner that's going to get them through this, but not just get

00:06:22.440 them through this, that has a plan about what's on the other side. That's our three-part plan.

00:06:27.000 we're standing up we're protecting we're building and the conservative vision what they would do

00:06:36.360 i don't fully know i don't fully know what they would do it doesn't really matter all that matters

00:06:43.600 is i want to run against an interim leader of the bc conservatives i didn't want to run against

00:06:48.880 carrie lynn finley now that she is gone we can trigger the election before another leadership

00:06:53.320 race actually takes place and I guess then the conservatives decided oh my goodness an election 0.78

00:06:58.620 let's bring back the people who kept mistaking Carrie Lynn Finley's back for a knife block 0.98

00:07:03.720 that would be a really good way of getting the base on board you know the base of the party

00:07:09.060 the people who door knock for you donate phone call work the campaign office put up lawn signs 0.99

00:07:16.600 yeah let's kick those people in the face okay you could have had a scenario where Carrie Lynn 1.00

00:07:22.400 Finley steps down because of all this, but they actually treat her properly. In fact, they were 0.99

00:07:28.240 not going to even let her run anymore, apparently. They're not even going to let her run anymore.

00:07:34.100 Of course, her husband has already crossed over because he already knew that they were not going

00:07:38.120 to let him run. And there was even talk of other MLAs being thrown out. I think they had to kind

00:07:43.660 of like, you know, pump the brakes a little bit because it was getting a little bit too obvious

00:07:47.660 that's the bc liberal party 2.0 but british columbia it's like it doesn't want to be helped

00:07:54.180 although we are still trying to help it because there are a lot of ordinary decent people all

00:07:59.680 over the province in every single region who just want the government to be normal stop being just 0.98

00:08:06.000 social activist crap from the ndp and stop having weak-willed bc liberals or fake bc conservatives 0.97

00:08:14.980 going around basically just saying, can we slightly lower that? Can we not do so much of 0.99

00:08:20.840 that? Can we protect property rights a little bit? Can we do a little bit of that? It's like,

00:08:25.080 what are you doing? People's actual livelihoods, their homes are being affected by this government

00:08:31.240 and you are bothered by the work. You are basically concerned first and foremost by

00:08:37.980 politeness. Oh, let's not say anything too right-wing, too harsh. Like, what do you mean

00:08:44.340 right-wing standing up for property rights and rejecting the reconciliation industry nonsense

00:08:49.700 that's considered too right-wing solving the problem is considered too right-wing or people

00:08:57.320 like peter millibar and brennan day and alia warbus what like this is the thing that's so

00:09:03.940 maddening about the situation it could have actually gone really well but there are too

00:09:10.020 many people there are too many special interests too many consultants too many lobbyists who want

00:09:17.080 it to be the vancouver party no matter who wins this is the province of vancouver it is not the

00:09:24.160 province of british columbia because when the rest of the province the fraser valley up island and

00:09:30.700 the interior tried to pick the leader of the bc conservative party the vancouver people basically

00:09:37.460 their faces twisted up and say, we'll have none of that. And they moved to try and eliminate

00:09:42.340 Carrie Lynn Finley and they succeeded. And now they are bringing all the people back who ended

00:09:46.660 up sabotaging her, who the base doesn't like. None of these people are liked by the base. They add

00:09:53.020 no extra votes to the party. People are like, but people in the middle might vote for them.

00:09:57.720 People in the middle don't follow politics that much. They just want the problem solved like

00:10:01.120 everybody else. If you are the party that is running hard against the land back agenda of

00:10:06.680 the bc ndp you will do well but the funny thing is they're bringing in people who want to go

00:10:11.360 soft pedal it they pier millibar running for the bc conservative party race leadership he came last

00:10:18.120 place fifth place and he ran on a platform to repeal drip up but then replace it with his own

00:10:24.320 reconciliation act which what no you don't if there is a policy on the books that says we are

00:10:31.400 just going to burn down random people's homes just for the fun of it and you say let's get rid of the

00:10:36.420 burning down people's homes policy. And let's replace it with the burning down fewer people's

00:10:41.600 homes policy. That is technically an improvement, but why in the heck would anyone show up for

00:10:48.480 something like that? It's just absolutely pathetic. But anyways, if you're in the province 1.00

00:10:53.280 of British Columbia, I would urge you, if you're watching the video, click on the link in the

00:10:58.100 description below to sign up with 1BC to sign up onto our email list so that you know if there's

00:11:04.960 candidate in your riding. We're going to try and figure out good target ridings and really

00:11:09.340 concentrate our forces there in order to make sure that we can pull seats out of this election 1.00

00:11:13.940 that could have gone better if the Conservatives hadn't been messing around and playing stupid 1.00

00:11:20.320 Liberal games. Anyways, with all that being said, thank you guys for watching and I'll see you all 0.94

00:11:25.880 later.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 23, 2026

Eby Stealing Power With BC Snap Election - Chaos Ensues

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