The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 21, 2024


The NDP's failed media hit job on the BC Conservative (fake merger ploy)

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BC Conservative media hit job
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Wyatt Claypool
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John Rustad David Eby Kevin Falcon Erin O'Toole Christy Clark Gordon Campbell Brad West Justin Trudeau Jagmeet Singh
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In this episode, I talk about why the BC United Conservative Party merger talk is a media hit job, and why John Rustad should have been able to maneuver his party into a coalition with the BC Conservative Party. I also talk about the reasons why a coalition between the United Party and the Conservative Party is a bad idea.

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00:00:00.000 British Columbia Conservative Party leader John Rustad deserves a lot of credit for having successfully maneuvered himself and his party through an NDP media hit job this last week.
00:00:10.820 If you live in BC, you're probably very well aware of the supposed merger talks that were happening last week between the BC Conservatives and Kevin Falcon's useless BC United Party.
00:00:21.140 The media was really pushing the narrative that the BC Conservatives and the United are in talks and they definitely need to talk and get together or they're not going to be able to beat David Eby and his BC NDP.
00:00:32.880 It's utterly false. The BC Conservatives have all the momentum right now.
00:00:37.140 The only way that the BC Conservatives could lose their momentum and not win the election in the fall is if they were stupid enough to engage in merger talks with the United and even fully merged. 0.89
00:00:47.300 The United is a boat anchor on the BC Conservatives' popularity if they merged into the Conservatives or if they started a new party together, which would be the worst of all options. 0.94
00:00:57.960 Kevin Falcon is not charismatic at all. People don't trust him. People don't trust his party.
00:01:03.120 So if John Rustad had allowed them into the BC Conservative Party or started a new entity with Kevin Falcon, all it would have done is take all the great work that the BC Conservatives did and then water it down with the crap sandwich that is the BC United.
00:01:16.860 It's really hard for John Rustad to get on a debate stage potentially with David Eby and say that I represent a 180 degree change from the BC NDP when you have Kevin Falcon in your party and the BC Liberals, which are now the BC United, were the ones who started a lot of the problems that David Eby is now making worse. 0.81
00:01:37.880 So it would have looked very hypocritical. So this is why it was good that David Eby last week said that I'm not merging, we're not having serious talks, and Brad West can join our party if he wants.
00:01:49.340 But if he doesn't want to actually just become an MLA and run like everyone else is, he can pack sand. It's not the job of the party to bend over backwards for the mayor of Port Coquitlam because he's supposedly kind of popular and that they should basically make their entire party around Brad West's personality.
00:02:07.880 Brad West didn't put in the work, and it was never going to happen that the party was just going to give themselves over to him as well as Kevin Falcon.
00:02:15.560 Now, why I'm saying that this was an NDP media hit job was because when you look at the media coverage of this, it was so artificial.
00:02:25.300 No merger talks were seriously happening, but all of these legacy media journalists were out there talking about how there's a potential that these two parties could get together, and they definitely do need to get together or the BC NDP are going to win.
00:02:37.840 Now, I want to pull up this clip right here and just play a little bit from it, because they were even bringing in hacky politicians like Christy Clark to imply that, well, John Rustad just can't win unless he brings Kevin Falcon into the fold.
00:02:50.060 Check this out.
00:02:51.660 So the party was the Social Credit Party, then it was the BC Liberal Party, and now it's the BC United Party, the Conservative leader, and the...
00:03:00.800 You can even see right there the contempt that Christy Clark has in her voice for John Rustad.
00:03:05.200 Make no mistake, all of these people are united in trying to hurt John Rustad.
00:03:08.800 This United leader were both in my cabinet at the same time, and, you know, what they need to remember is that we lost...
00:03:16.680 Gordon Campbell didn't become Premier in 1996 when everybody thought he would, and he had higher polling numbers than the Conservatives do now, because there was a split in the vote.
00:03:27.320 It's also why, although we won the election in 2017, we didn't get to form government, because there was 200 votes lost to the Conservatives in one riding.
00:03:36.560 So they absolutely have to come together.
00:03:39.100 We have the slowest economy in the country.
00:03:41.000 This is the rhetoric that you're hearing from every talking head talking about this, and even when John Rustad was on an interview on CTV News, they kept saying, well, why aren't you merging?
00:03:50.480 Don't you have to merge?
00:03:51.400 Well, don't you owe it to your voters to make sure that you come together to beat the NDP?
00:03:55.560 That is not how things would actually work.
00:03:58.420 Christy Clark is just wrong about 1996.
00:04:01.060 The reason Gordon Campbell couldn't win in 1996 was because he wasn't enough of a departure from the NDP at the time,
00:04:07.980 when he actually became more Conservative, because the Liberal Party in B.C. used to be more of a bid-tent Conservative Party.
00:04:14.540 That's when he was able to win a smashing victory in the early 2000s.
00:04:18.860 Now, what John Rustad, what they're telling John Rustad to do, is water down your party.
00:04:23.840 Become more like the NDP, because that's what's going to make you win.
00:04:26.900 When, if anything, he should become more Conservative, because that's what B.C. residents want.
00:04:31.740 Look at the issue-by-issue polling.
00:04:33.640 The Conservatives have the opinion that 76% of B.C. residents agree with,
00:04:40.560 because 76% of B.C. residents on several massive issues in this election think the NDP are doing a terrible job.
00:04:47.360 None of those people want United's just watered-down version of what the NDP and the Conservatives are doing.
00:04:52.660 They want the change, the full-fat version of the reforms that the Conservatives are offering.
00:04:58.080 So to bring in the United is not stopping vote-splitting.
00:05:00.760 It's just merely watering down the brand.
00:05:02.980 Again, United is hurting the B.C. NDP more than they're hurting the B.C. Conservatives.
00:05:09.280 You actually want United to stick around for Election Day,
00:05:12.560 because all federal Conservatives that the United Party currently has are all slowly moving over to the B.C. Conservatives.
00:05:19.400 In five months, when the election is around the corner,
00:05:22.400 the B.C. Conservatives are going to have all of the federal Conservative voters voting for them.
00:05:26.400 You couldn't possibly be a federal Conservative and vote NDP or United.
00:05:29.720 Those two parties disagree with what Pure Polly wants to do on a federal level. 1.00
00:05:34.700 And so your only logical option is to go vote for the B.C. Conservatives.
00:05:39.240 And remember, the federal Conservatives have anywhere from 44% to 52% of the vote in B.C.
00:05:45.020 depending on the poll you look at.
00:05:46.820 So there's more than enough people to vote for the B.C. Conservatives to win this election.
00:05:51.140 And then the rest of the left's vote is going to be cut up between the B.C. Greens, B.C. United, and the B.C. NDP.
00:05:58.040 Even a lot of NDP voters are willing to come over for the B.C. Conservatives,
00:06:02.760 because even if they might like Jagmeet Singh's federal NDP for whatever reason,
00:06:06.960 they can at least identify a lot of the programs of the provincial NDP are toxic in more ways than one,
00:06:13.280 especially on drugs.
00:06:14.560 And so why, again, and I think I have another piece of evidence right here that I find quite compelling,
00:06:20.500 that this was all an NDP hit job.
00:06:22.980 Because right after, the day after, because look at this tweet, it's on May 15th.
00:06:28.320 This is when John Rustad said, there's no talks.
00:06:30.700 We are not having serious talks with anybody.
00:06:32.940 The B.C. Conservatives are going to keep on the path that they're on,
00:06:36.360 and we're going to win this next provincial election.
00:06:38.180 The day after, David Eby came out to condemn the potential merger between the United and the Conservatives
00:06:44.900 and said this was evidence that the Conservatives are taken over by corrupt consultants,
00:06:50.040 even though the NDP and the United Parties are the two corrupt consultant parties,
00:06:53.860 and the B.C. Conservatives are full of people who the media attacks as street-level conservative activists.
00:07:00.260 So are they street-level conservative activists, or are they consultants?
00:07:04.100 They're just saying things.
00:07:05.100 But check out this quote from a, I think it's a, sorry, what publication is this?
00:07:11.240 I think it's a Vancouver Sun article.
00:07:13.740 David Eby said this,
00:07:15.080 Powerful interests are trying to arrange a marriage of convenience between downtown lobbyists
00:07:19.780 working for the wealthiest British Columbians to protect their interests.
00:07:24.080 Well, I've got a message for these lobbyists and for John Rustad and Kevin Falcon.
00:07:27.880 The next election will be decided at the kitchen table, not at the boardroom table. 0.96
00:07:32.100 It's clownish.
00:07:33.860 This was said a day after John Rustad said, we're not in serious talks with the B.C. United.
00:07:38.680 They can pack sand.
00:07:39.640 We don't want their consultants in our party.
00:07:41.880 And you could tell this was a coordinated hit, because I guarantee David Eby had supplied these quotes
00:07:46.740 well before this talk or this merger was going to happen, or like this potential merger talks were going to come out.
00:07:52.800 And so a day after, 24 hours after John Rustad already said, this isn't happening, David Eby is quoted in an article saying, I can't believe they're trying to merge.
00:08:01.660 They're not trying to merge.
00:08:02.860 You were just trying to create a fake narrative in order to smear the conservatives with United's brand.
00:08:08.900 That's how you know all these people in the media are being utterly dishonest about the fact that the conservatives in the United need to combine if they want to beat the NDP, because the NDP is saying that they're basically indicating they hope they merge so that they can attack the conservatives as being full of all the old B.C. liberal consultants.
00:08:27.540 It didn't happen, and now David Eby looks like a complete putz, because his party is actually effectively endorsing the idea that the conservatives are actually a pure party, full of actual good ideas and people who want to push for reforms, because they denied the consultants.
00:08:44.060 The media is trying to bait, and they do this on the federal level and the provincial level all across the country.
00:08:49.960 They bait you into watering yourself down, tick off your conservative base who are now not going to show up for you in as large of a number.
00:08:57.020 And in the idea that because you've now taken the more moderate position or merged with the more moderate party, this is going to help you, when really all it does is makes all of the people in that party who don't like the conservatives just go over and vote for the left.
00:09:10.420 This is what happened with Aaron O'Toole on the federal level.
00:09:13.440 The media, and to a certain extent, they didn't have to really bait him, but they kind of baited Aaron O'Toole into adopting his own carbon tax, into saying he's not going to get rid of the gun bans, into saying he wasn't going to cut any government spending.
00:09:24.740 And they got him to turn himself into a complete non-entity that election.
00:09:28.920 He still won the popular vote, but that's just on the back of the fact that nobody likes Justin Trudeau.
00:09:33.660 But Aaron O'Toole crashed and burned with his own base who decided that in the eastern Canadian provinces where most people don't really ever show up to vote conservative because they don't have a chance, they definitely stayed home.
00:09:45.860 Because Aaron O'Toole made it so that even if you get out and vote and you put a conservative government in, we're not going to do anything for you.
00:09:52.260 So what's the point if I know that my riding doesn't even have that great of a chance of going conservative?
00:09:57.160 It's always on these marginal ridings that watering your platform down is going to hurt you.
00:10:02.040 Because in rural areas, people are already used to voting for the conservatives.
00:10:05.360 They're going to show up and vote for you even if you water yourself down.
00:10:08.540 It's actually watering yourself down hurts you in the more moderate ridings because your hardcore supporters out there get ticked off that all of their work, all their volunteering, all their donating and going out and voting might not really make that much of a difference.
00:10:20.800 Because we might not even elect the conservatives.
00:10:23.160 And even if we do, he might not do anything.
00:10:25.280 The BC conservatives are indicating that, no, we are actually going to pursue the heavy reforms that we need to make.
00:10:31.440 And we're not going to suspend any of it just for the sake of Kevin Falcon needing to find himself a new job and trying to weasel his way into the conservative party now.
00:10:40.860 Anyways, that should be it for me today, guys.
00:10:43.540 Watch out for any media ops.
00:10:45.520 They're all over the place.
00:10:46.600 They always want the left to win.
00:10:48.120 If you live in British Columbia, I have a link in the description below for the BC conservatives donation page.
00:10:53.360 They don't pay me to promote them.
00:10:54.920 I just want you to donate to these people because if you don't donate to your local conservative party, nobody else is.
00:11:02.340 The mentality is always, well, a rich donor is going to come in and donate enough so that the BC conservatives can win.
00:11:07.860 You can't actually donate that much in Canadian politics.
00:11:10.360 So each person has to be giving 100 bucks or so if they actually want the conservatives to beat the NDP.
00:11:15.760 It's a worth an investment to make sure that you're not going to pay more taxes in the long run to get rid of drugs from the streets, to get rid of crime, to get rid of SOGI. 1.00
00:11:23.320 A hundred dollars to do that is a bargain.
00:11:26.080 So consider doing that because you get 75% of it back in a tax credit anyways.
00:11:30.240 And if you don't live in British Columbia, you can donate to my legal fund as I'm fighting a billionaire developer for defamation that he can't prove and hasn't given any evidence to prove in over two and a half years of this case being active.
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00:11:52.780 So have a good one, everyone.