Dix Decision No Surprise Says UNBC Political Science Lecturer
Thursday, September 19, 2013 @ 3:58 AM
Prince George, B.C.- The decision by Adrian Dix to step down from his post as leader of the New Democrats in BC came as no surprise to UNBC Political Science lecturer, Jason Morris “We saw this coming, he was supposed to win the last election and he didn’t, so he’s gone.” Morris says even though the responsibility for such a loss shouldn’t rest solely on the shoulders of the party leader, sometimes “they have to get the axe and be replaced.”
Dix says he will stay on as Party Leader until a new one can be chosen. There is no word on when that might happen, but Dix has indicated he would like it to happen before June of 2014.
So what will this mean for the BC New Democrats? “For the next 6 months or so it will mean a lot of uncertainty for the NDP” says Morris, “I don’t know if there are any clear, bright lights waiting in the wings to immediately come over and seize the day and seize the Party and re-engage themselves with British Columbians.”
Since the dramatic loss by the NDP in the May Provincial election, the New Democrats have been analyzing what went wrong. How could a Party, predicted by numerous pollsters to have a significant lead, not only lose, but have the victors sitting with a majority government?
“Dix is an intelligent, able bodied parliamentarian” says Morris, “He also knows the game of politics, he’s very skilled at it, sure he’s prone to making up policy on the fly, but at the end of the day, the NDP lost the election in the trenches, they weren’t getting their vote out, they weren’t campaigning effectively.” Morris says without those boots on the ground in every riding, “A messiah of a new leader so to speak, may not make a difference for the next election.”
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How ridiculous. The NDP have an army of “volunteer” union members all over the province. Nobody has more boots on the ground with the ability to scare the public into getting out to vote, than them.
No. It was, and will always be their arrogance towards anybody who doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid; it just nauseates the fence riding, middle-ground occupying voter.
I wait on pins and needles to see who the next “leader” will be. In an age of increasing global competition you would think a provincial party would want the best and brightest at the top.
Not the NDP, written in their constitution that one of the top three positions must be held not by what a person has between the ears but by what they have tucked away in their underwear. Maybe Anthony Wiener is going to run and his sending out pictures of his junk is a campaign strategy:)
I wonder what will happen when they realize that they have excluded the whole LGBT community. When that happens a left leaning transgendered person would be a great find and if they also happened to be a visible minority it would be like finding the holy grail.
I know! Let’s find Svend. He probably ain’t busy. Forgive and forget. That’s what I always say.
“Morris says without those boots on the ground in every riding, âA messiah of a new leader so to speak, may not make a difference for the next election.â
A leader leads the entire party and the efforts to get as many seats elected as possible. A good leader can pick the right people to put in place for that.
As with anyone else in that position, the sign on the desk needs to say “the buck stops here”. Plain and simple.
I’m sure the sign on any Canadian politician’s desk would have interchangeable numbers. As in, “The 97.6 cents stops here”. And some fine print on the bottom of the sign which would say, “subject to change without notice”.
LOL…Harbinger, way back when, I had a bath towel that looked like a Canuck buck. In the corners were 80 cent symbols and on the top it said ” ONE TRUDOUGH”.
Someone needs to tell Mr Dix that its ok to be hard on the issue, even if not being hard on the person. This seems to be where he falls down and people loose respect in him. Being soft on people doesn’t get you elected if you can’t be hard on the issues.
Does that mean he has to go out and find a job
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