The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - September 06, 2024


Facing election defeat David Eby's BC NDP starts flailing!


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The BC NDP has a new ad attacking the BC Tory candidate, John Rustad, for being a "career politician" who has been in politics for a while. This ad is weak and pathetic and I don't get it.

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00:00:00.000 To put it mildly, things have not been going well in the British Columbia provincial election for Premier David Eby and his BC NDP party.
00:00:09.120 They have no real accomplishments to run on. Everything has gotten worse since the NDP took power in 2017.
00:00:16.720 They have tons of scandals, including crack pipe vending machines and rampant anti-Semitism.
00:00:22.660 And the BC conservatives are very much on the ascent in the polls.
00:00:26.600 So the BC NDP's new strategy is saying that John Rusted's a career politician or something.
00:00:34.180 I don't get it. We have a massive opioid crisis in BC.
00:00:38.520 We are the capital of the opioid crisis in North America.
00:00:42.960 And yet we have the BC NDP thinking that a bunch of voters are going to reject the conservatives and come back home to the BC NDP because John Rusted has been in office for a while.
00:00:55.060 Well, who cares? David Eby himself is a professional, useless person.
00:01:00.580 He's never had a real job in his life.
00:01:03.040 He's been an activist and he still is an activist.
00:01:06.160 He is the protester in the Premier's office.
00:01:09.020 The man would be more comfortable at a Columbia University occupation by all the Palestinian crazies than he would be at a business meeting. 1.00
00:01:17.420 He is a terrible leader.
00:01:19.440 And now the idea that because he's been in elected office less time than John Rusted that makes him better is utterly pathetic.
00:01:26.560 I want to get into this clip right here that the NDP posted themselves.
00:01:29.620 This is their new ad.
00:01:31.180 It's horribly underwhelming.
00:01:33.620 But before I do that, I just quickly want to plug the fact that in Abbotsford South here, we are holding a fundraiser on September 10th, 7 p.m.
00:01:42.800 at the Greek Islands restaurant.
00:01:44.160 I have tickets available in the description below.
00:01:47.220 I'll be at that event if you guys want to come by and say hi.
00:01:50.180 We need to do as much fundraising as possible to ensure that we can beat the BC NDP.
00:01:54.960 If you can't show up to it, you can still donate to the BC Conservatives for Abbotsford South.
00:02:01.620 We're going to try and take as much money as we can and distribute cash to the ridings that need it that we can oust NDP incumbents in.
00:02:09.660 Again, everything's going very well in Abbotsford South, but we basically are just the distribution point for funds for the entire Fraser Valley.
00:02:16.900 So if you want to come and say hi, show up to the Abbotsford South fundraiser.
00:02:21.120 You don't have to be in the riding to show up and hang out and whatnot.
00:02:24.960 Just make sure you buy a ticket.
00:02:26.520 But without further ado, let's get into this BC NDP ad.
00:02:30.160 So it says up here, John Rustad is not new to politics.
00:02:34.840 He is a career politician with a 20-year record of costing you more.
00:02:38.880 That's a risk you can't afford.
00:02:40.480 It's so weak immediately.
00:02:42.320 This is one of the weakest headers I've ever seen to an ad attacking the other leader of your opposition.
00:02:49.200 It just says basically he's been in politics for a while.
00:02:52.620 You can't take that risk.
00:02:54.020 We have people dying in the streets.
00:02:56.600 People can't afford homes.
00:02:58.000 A home is like $1.3 million on average in British Columbia.
00:03:03.320 And you're going to look at me and say John Rustad is a big risk because I don't know.
00:03:08.440 I guess he was in favor of tolls at one point.
00:03:11.640 Something that's not even that bad of an idea when you're trying to bring in money into the provincial coffers without just raising income taxes.
00:03:20.520 But yeah, this is just pathetic and weak.
00:03:22.560 But let's get to the video right here.
00:03:23.880 It's even worse when they try and make this sort of personal appeal where they have the average Joe sitting there and telling you that John Rustad is just not a good guy.
00:03:34.620 John Rustad came from the B.C. Liberal Party and of course now B.C. United Party.
00:03:39.460 You know, these were times when people had to pay a toll to come in from Surrey, to come to Vancouver.
00:03:45.380 I knew it, John Rustad.
00:03:46.820 You know, people could afford to pay a toll back in the day.
00:03:49.240 That's really what that tells me.
00:03:51.100 People used to be able to afford to pay something like a toll.
00:03:53.980 People can't afford potatoes now just pointing it out to you.
00:03:58.120 Who cares?
00:03:59.660 Oh, you can't pay a toll.
00:04:01.280 What an indignity that you had to pay a toll to get on some faster roads.
00:04:06.460 OK, I don't really see what the point here is when, again, people can't afford their rent, groceries and taxes have never been higher.
00:04:14.940 And you're going to, like, you know, look down your nose at John Rustad when he was a liberal MLA being in favor of tolls comes from the old B.C. Liberal elite.
00:04:24.760 So I'm assuming it will be a very developer focused.
00:04:27.840 We'll get these luxury one bedroom condos everywhere made to sell to investors and offer families to live.
00:04:36.980 Oh, my goodness.
00:04:38.120 It's such a bad ad.
00:04:39.580 It's just bad.
00:04:41.520 I don't know who this is meant to appeal to.
00:04:43.920 That last guy saying, well, John Rustad, I think he's going to be very developers focused.
00:04:49.140 This is just really socialists talking that you're scared of the fact that John Rustad might make it easier for developers to build buildings.
00:04:58.660 Well, guess what?
00:05:00.180 David Eby's approach of not building anything hasn't been working.
00:05:04.000 So maybe we should try and cut taxes and make it easier for developers to actually build things.
00:05:09.540 Environmental regulations are actually the secret biggest issue right now with building permits in British Columbia.
00:05:16.460 It takes an average of three years to get a building permit approved because of just all the hoops and gyrations you have to jump through.
00:05:23.540 All of the extra taxes on you building anything, all the idle time waiting for inspectors to look over your foundations and whatnot and all of the environmental checks that make it take forever to build something.
00:05:35.420 That adds cost.
00:05:36.840 And now the NDP, they want to put it in place like rent controls and all these other supply controls to make it so that a small group of people who are having a hard time getting a home can get that home while everyone else has to suffer even more.
00:05:51.620 Every time you put price controls into place, it benefits a select few and hurts everybody else.
00:05:57.420 But that's the NDP solution to everything.
00:06:00.000 How about we sacrifice three people to benefit one person and then hope that one person keeps voting for us to keep us in power?
00:06:06.780 It's absolutely pathetic.
00:06:08.580 And just I don't think this is actually going to help them at all.
00:06:11.660 I don't see where the attack line is here.
00:06:15.120 That's actually going to make a middle class person who's struggling say, you know, driving home late at night on election day.
00:06:21.920 You know, I could just go home, pop on a movie, but, you know, dang it, John Rusted's a career politician, so I'm going to pull over and vote for David Eby.
00:06:30.640 No, you're not.
00:06:31.340 That's not a person who's going to vote for the NDP.
00:06:34.020 John Horgan, his big, sorry, still a little bit sick.
00:06:38.860 John Horgan is what I would call like a blue collar or a blue NDP.
00:06:43.200 I disagree with him on pretty much every policy still, but he has that feel of a blue NDP, a little bit more of a man's man.
00:06:50.000 And he could get small business owners, tradespeople, construction workers to come and vote for him.
00:06:55.580 David Eby can't.
00:06:57.180 The man just comes off like a peevish cocktail party circuit politician.
00:07:02.680 He is an activist lawyer.
00:07:04.920 He cannot connect at all with people who actually work hard jobs.
00:07:09.340 And that is a massive amount of people living in British Columbia.
00:07:13.060 And the entire equation of how people are going to vote is completely upended.
00:07:17.120 I actually think that the polls are underestimating how many people are going to show up and vote for the Conservatives.
00:07:22.400 Because there's a certain select type of person who will pick up a phone and do a poll.
00:07:26.840 Those don't tend to be plumbers.
00:07:28.320 It tends to skew more to downtown office workers who are more likely to vote NDP than Conservative.
00:07:34.200 And even in these polls, the Conservatives are still winning.
00:07:37.360 I actually just want to pull this up on screen.
00:07:39.120 Sheree Attiste even ballparked this race, and he currently has, with the new polls taken into account, the Conservatives winning a majority by a couple of seats.
00:07:47.300 I think that can expand a little bit more into the future.
00:07:50.620 But the thing is that the Conservatives are going to probably have a massively bigger turnout than the NDP, even if we are to believe the polling numbers.
00:07:58.900 And it's not that you shouldn't believe the polling numbers.
00:08:00.900 It's just that they can be sometimes a little bit flawed.
00:08:02.880 There's a lot of low propensity voters that are going to come out for the Conservatives.
00:08:07.220 I just yesterday was talking to a restaurant owner who says that their father has never voted in his entire life, but he's going to vote in this election because he hates David Eby.
00:08:17.480 Because David Eby is so bad, he is willing to vote even though he doesn't really believe voting usually works.
00:08:23.940 He's willing to do it this time.
00:08:25.440 There's a lot of people who work, you know, trades jobs, who work sort of jobs where at the end of the day they're too tired to vote, they don't care.
00:08:33.360 They're definitely voting.
00:08:34.580 They're voting early or they're going to vote in the morning or after work.
00:08:37.380 They will show up for John Rustad.
00:08:38.900 Even David Eby's base, are they going to show up to vote for David Eby to defend him?
00:08:43.860 Because it's not like they're voting because things are getting so much better.
00:08:47.240 We've got to protect what the great work David Eby is doing.
00:08:50.060 He's not doing anything good.
00:08:51.020 All they have is that big, scary conservatives might win if you don't vote for David Eby.
00:08:55.740 Also, here's some crack.
00:08:57.380 It's a loser narrative.
00:08:59.780 And election campaigns very much are about narratives.
00:09:03.820 In 2015, Stephen Harper lost because frankly, he had a bad narrative.
00:09:11.740 Even though Stephen Harper is miles better of a prime minister than Justin Trudeau, his narrative was a vote for me because Justin Trudeau isn't good.
00:09:19.900 Or Thomas Mulcair isn't good.
00:09:22.980 Justin Trudeau had sunny ways, which as silly and simplistic as it is, that's a good narrative.
00:09:28.700 I'm a ray of sunshine here to brighten things up in Canada.
00:09:32.760 Things are going to get better.
00:09:34.120 We're going to have more momentum in the economy because we're going to make investments from the governmental level, which doesn't work.
00:09:39.040 But to the average voter roll, that sounds better than Stephen Harper there sort of saying, well, you know, we've been accomplishing good work and you should vote for us because Justin Trudeau is just not ready.
00:09:49.380 Bad narrative.
00:09:50.100 In this election in 2024 in British Columbia, the change narrative is on the side of the conservatives that we can stop doing things as business as usual in B.C.
00:10:01.200 We can stop with these far left woke policies and get back to letting you live your life and getting the government to leave you alone, to stop handing out safe supply drugs, to stop taxing you so much, to actually arrest criminals, all of this other stuff.
00:10:16.260 But that is more compelling than let's just keep the money flowing into these failed programs because, you know, it would be rude not to, which is effectively what David Eby is saying.
00:10:28.800 Anyways, well, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:10:31.820 I'll have more B.C. election updates as I'm going here.
00:10:34.700 Obviously, I'm working for the B.C. conservatives trying to make sure we get rid of the NDP here.
00:10:39.400 So, again, if you're anywhere close to Abbotsford, think about coming to the fundraiser on September 10th.
00:10:45.940 The link for the tickets is in the description of this video below.
00:10:49.540 Come and hang out.
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00:10:52.360 You can, you know, grab some Greek food or whatever, all that stuff.
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00:11:50.700 We just got to focus on doing what's actually useful and not farting around too much in BC, like, you know, fighting social media battles.
00:11:58.960 It's fun, but eventually you got to get to the doors and got to talk to the average person who doesn't care about X.