Starting from nothing just 14 months ago, John Rustad now has four MLAs and a wide lead over BC United in the polls
After 13 months of mushing around in the middle, the BC United Party now looks like it is swirling down the drain.
Both defections came after half-hearted talks about a merger or co-operation agreement between the two parties went nowhere. Starting from nothing just 14 months ago, Rustad now has four MLAs, a wide lead over the United party in the polls and is close enough to the NDP to make things interesting in this fall’s election.
He got a spontaneous standing ovation, and most United MLAs joined in, unprecedented during the partisan question period.The party adapted its stance on the carbon tax, on Indigenous reconciliation, on safe supply of opioids, decriminalization and other issues. They’ve been groping around trying to appeal to a middle ground that looks to be shrinking day by day.
“If you’re the leader of a coalition, you have one job,” Sturko said. “And that job is to bring people together. … And Kevin Falcon failed at that job.” On Monday, she airily dismissed all the social-media slurs that were traded as just Twitterverse chatter. No doubt Rustad will order all members to let bygones be bygones as well.
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