And a clear majority for absolutely no reason! It's not like they were doing anything wild and imaginative like public grocery chains.

Hopefully this is the slap in the face the BCNDP need to move left instead of staying centrist.

He could've resigned at any time if that was the case. Guy was just being opportunistic and people don't like these kinds of shenanigans.

That doesn't pass the sniff test. His party had 2 more years in power, which is plenty of time to choose a new leader ahead of the next election. If he wanted out, he could have stepped down.

No, I think this was the NDP senior strategists/leadership expectations that the opposition was in such disarray that they could cruise to an easy majority. We're they not paying attention last election? BCU folded as soon as it was obvious they were unelectable; it wasn't 4D chess to think the nascent right-wing parties would fold even earlier.

They also handed the BC Cons an excuse for not having an election platform—they were in disarray just trying to respond to their leadership turnover and the unfair election, so just saying "trust us, we're better" seemed reasonable to voters.

No I'm not. I saw the diagram in this post:

https://mastodon.social/@GarrickWinter/117502400402320684

A first order estimation, take 275k ndp voters that chose not to vote, subtract 23k new green voters that could have moved from ndp (so excluding them from blame), it's around 250k people that sat it out for the ndp I'm blaming for this the most giving the Conservatives the win.

Green splitting is a reality, particularly on Vancouver island but it's the same as every FPTP election. It's not the fact people voted for greens that I blame them for. It's the promotion of the idea that BCNDP and Conservatives are no different, which helps depress turnout, rather than a yes/and. We're about to see very clearly what the difference is. I tried to get the vote out but to no avail it seems.

Also shoutout to @Sunshine@piefed.ca you did your part, I can tell you were a Greens supporter but I won't blame you or be snarky because you recognized the difference and helped try to turn things around despite the BCNDP's bad snap election decision.

The last sentence was 100% sarcasm but you can find opinions that effectively say the stuff above that, within this thread and in the BritishColumbia lemmy community here and there over the last months.

and the Cons help with homelessness by doing what? Everywhere else they want to bulldoze the encampments, making people even more homeless.

and people pissed at Eby calling an election early.

Calling an unnecessarily early election seldom goes well for the party who caused the election.

Even worse if they were viewed to be doing it for blatantly opportunistic political reasons.

Hahaha like conservatives can fix homelessness

I wonder if the recent leftist sweep of the municipal election energized conservative voters.

Completely stupid reason to vote against your own interests.

Oh yeah I'm SO pissed that I have to spend literally less time voting than I do sitting at a Starbucks drive-thru for a $9 coffee every day.

No you're not. Your pea brain is delighted to be fooled into thinking you're some arbiter of political justice.

There is no justifiable reason to vote the conservatives into power. If the only reason is "Eby bad" the congrats, you now understand how MAGA is in power now. No ideas, lots of insults, attacks and criticisms with no firm solution offered.

Blaming the voters for the failures of a political party is not a winning strategy.

The guy has cowboy in their name

Says the delusional commie...

Do you not understand what an analogy is? Also, do you not think that replacing management is common in an actual business?

The NDP certainly screwed up badly, but the BC voters screwed up worse.

Changing the party doesn't always mean opting for a worse solution and letting the disadvantaged people bear the consequences of your discipline. You can always choose a better option like the Green party, which obviously the electors didn't.

Yes, we're teaching them BY VOTING IN THE PARTY THAT WAS LITERALLY RECORDED ACTUALLY FUCKING WITH DEMOCRACY.

Political opportunism isn't "fucking with democracy". It's something people dislike for sure but let's not conflate that with something like openly discussing bribing people to step down as MLAs.

Honest to god it's no wonder things are going the way they are.