What’s telling however was that the BC Conservatives were NOT mentioned, and is there any wonder why?
Yesterday I
received a message, much like many I have received recently, asking me, “Alan, are you still involved
with the BC Tories?”
I responded by saying …
I am again now. There is a movement from grassroots members, who have
left (or are disengaged) to get back at it. Party MUST get back out and engage
with people of BC ... raise our profile, and present a platform and policies
that people can and will identify with.
Are you still a member?
This individual
replied saying: “Yes. We
need to get our act together.”
I agree, and so do a large number of people who have been phoning,
emailing, and phoning me in the past couple of weeks.
I believe it is imperative that we start now, to think of good well
qualified people we can bring to our conservative cause. They need to know this
party will no longer be allowed to stay lost in the wilderness…
We need to talk with former BCCP candidates who left after the
disastrous and embarrassing campaign of 2013…
We need to find the true conservatives within the federal party to join
with us, not be lost within a BC Liberal whose leader has always had ties to the
Federal Liberals…
We must talk with CPC candidates who were not elected, and who will be
important for their campaign skills, knowledge, etc…
We can no longer wait for somebody else to do the work ... we can longer
say there is no hope for the future. There is ... but ONLY if members, former
members, disillusioned members, and those who once gave us a look (and then
said here is nothing here to support and work for) say they WILL take the reins
and dig in from the grassroots to build this party.
One on one is what it is going to take to double our team ... then
double again, and again and again. We must have people who believe in the value
of building a BC Conservative Party, but not just that, we need people who will
rally others to our BC Conservative team.
Let me digress for a moment.
On November the 6th the Vancouver Observer ran a story headlined; “Why isn't Christy Clarkfacing the fight of her life over triple-deletes?”. Here’s just a few clips from that story:
Premier Christy Clark should be facing
the fight of her life. Just one week ago, it was reported that the BC Liberal
government routinely disposes of all written records relating to government
decisions…
Love
him or hate him, at least Gordon Campbell had a vision for the province and
knew how to run his government with some degree of competence. So why aren’t
the pitchforks out? Why aren’t the winds of change battering down the legislature?
It’s because we don’t have an effective opposition - nor an alternative
government in waiting.
It then goes on to say:
With no effective opposition from either the NDP or the Greens, frustrated British Columbians have been resigned to the sad fact that Christy Clark will easily win the next election and continuing governing long into the future, regardless of how competent she actually is.
With no effective opposition from either the NDP or the Greens, frustrated British Columbians have been resigned to the sad fact that Christy Clark will easily win the next election and continuing governing long into the future, regardless of how competent she actually is.
Did you catch
that? The writer said there is NO
effective opposition from either the NDP of the Greens. What’s telling however was that the BC
Conservatives were NOT mentioned, and is there any wonder why?
Up to now I have not mentioned this, however some may not be aware that
the Vancouver Observer is pretty much to the left of the political spectrum in
its’ writing and opinion pieces. This
call to arms (and I have been hearing about this for a while now) is from dissatisfied
NDPer’s and Greens. While those folks
come from the other side of the political spectrum to me, it is obvious that
people, no matter what their political beliefs, want to have real input into processes
they have been left out of.
Here is how this article concludes:
…
and it needs to reinspire British Columbians; get us to truly believe that
together we can build a better province and a better tomorrow.
The
path forward is not hazy or unclear. The policies we need are in front of us. What we need is a passionate and driven group
of British Columbians - all those who have shut off and disengaged - to stand
together, get organized, and take back our province.
Because
if we don’t, Christy Clark won’t have to answer to anybody. That’s bad for democracy,
it’s bad for taxpayers, and it’s bad for BC.
Those words are no less true for those of us who are small “c”
conservatives. YES … what we have is bad
for democracy … bad for taxpayers … bad for BC!
While the writer of the article I have quoted from, Paul Hillsdon, is
calling for a new political party on the left to be formed, I DO NOT believe that
is needed in our case. We already have a
vehicle that only needs people to put their energies into it.
There are thousands out there, so my question to each of you who has
called, emailed and messaged me is, “Are
you willing to sit back and say someone else can do the work, or will you show
by your actions that there is value in supporting and building this party into
a force that can take the reins of power?”
Nothing happens in a vacuum … or in our case, without a connection
to other like-minded people.
Change is coming so get connected … and if your membership has lapsed I want you to go directly from reading this, to renew your membership (or become a member) of the British Columbia Conservative Party. Here’s the link.
Ready … set … go!
I’m Alan Forseth in Kamloops.
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