First the moderate BC United collapses and now the right-wing BC Conservatives splinters off into a extremist far-right party in the making. Do we really want to keep allowing the first-past-the-post system to continue to hide extremists behind the 2 big tent parties when we can instead have more transparency in our democracy.
Join !fairvote@lemmy.ca so we can end this nonsense!
I did join fairvote. Why do we resist proportional representation? Seems like a no brainer.
I did join fairvote
Thanks! In a time of uncertainty, you are help building a stronger Canadian democracy!
Why do we resist proportional representation? Seems like a no brainer.
I ask myself this about every other day. I echo the sentiments from this comment: that there is a massive disinformation campaign on PR.
The powerful few are very persuasive with disinformation campaigns to fearmonger people into accepting the broken first-past-the-post over the much fairer proportional representation 3 during our 3 referendums. Most countries get pr through multi-party support.
Jordan Kealy of Peace River North and Tara Armstrong of Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, both made the announcement on Facebook Friday evening.
The party has been a mess. Perhaps “not NDP” isn’t enough of a foundation for a party. Maybe we need some principled people to step out of it.
In his post, Kealy indicates interest in forming a “new party that respects Conservative values,” but that he plans to represent his region “with or without a party.”
Uh oh. I never like where the conversation is going when the word “values” starts getting slung around.
The NDP has sought to exploit that strategy through some of its motions, including one calling on MLAs to condemn U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
Five Conservative MLAs voted against the motion, including Brodie, Armstrong and Kealy.
Ohhhhh. Now I get it. The BC Conservatives aren’t conservative enough for this lot. And I naively thought they were leaning towards being less shitty.
No, the first one got kicked out by rustad for mocking residential school survivors, and the other two decided to follow her. These are the worst possible people.
Update now it’s up to 3 independents in the legislature.
