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OneBC, the party formed after a split with the Conservative Party of B.C., says leader Dallas Brodie has been “removed” by the party’s board of directors.
The party’s only other elected member sitting in the B.C. Legislature, MLA Tara Armstrong, says she’s lost confidence in Brodie’s leadership, and the party’s website no longer includes any mention of Brodie.
According to Dallas Brodie's latest Facebook post, this all started because she found out one of the staffers working for her had said some really unacceptable things that were beyond the pale even for her, wanted the staffer fired, but her other advisors sided with the staffer and wanted her gone instead.
The head of the Dominion Society (a white supremacist group that supports "remigration" i.e. not just deporting all the temporary immigrants but PRs as well, AND even wanting citizens who are immigrants to "go back home") tweeted that he supports Tara Armstrong and the advisors that stood up to Brodie.
I'd take all this with a grain of salt (like Brodie obviously wants to make herself look not-completely-evil), and maybe the full story will leak out soon, but it's possible Brodie surrounded herself with even nuttier people who tossed her for not being racist enough to employ a literal neo-Nazi.
That actually makes sense. Brody kinda burned the bridges with Rustad when she left. Maybe Armstrong is in a more amicable relationship with him and trying to pull him to their new club so that they draw some people who recognize Rustad’s name.
I'm 40, but as a younger man, I aligned with conservative politics of the early 2000s.
A combination of life experience and the fact that my opinions about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were proved completely incorrect made me change a lot of my views.
But even if I don't share that ideology anymore, I can at least say that conservative politics used to have at least SOME grounding in reality.
Today, the movement is almost entirely driven by people who have liquefied their brains through consumption of online rage bait. It's embarrassing.
I think it's interesting that most people will agree with some level of fiscal conservatism but that form of conservative politics has been dead in Canada for a while - the closest thing we have now is Carney funnily enough. The current form of conservatism really focuses on culture wars and identity politics as their main issues.
they will nominally agree with it because none of them look at what the actual budget is for 1) their city 2) their province 3) or our country. Its easy to imagine a fantasy where we have wasteful spending (which we may have) but the large % of our spending is on social programs no one wants touched or infrastructure or now finally defense. Its why Doug Fords Ontario or the conservative governemnts in Quebec have such a hard time being 'fiscally responsible' and Smith only pulls it off because shes gut spending on education and healthcare.
I'd generally say centre-right, with history of voting BC Liberal and federal Conservative.
But I couldn't vote for the BC Conservative candidate in the last BC election because what nut jobs they are. In fact, I submitted a blank ballot.
And federally, I won't vote for my Conservative party candidate so long as Pierre Poilievre, or someone like him, is the party leader. I had no problem voting for my federal Liberal candidate last election.
I hate how the centre right and right wing parties have given such a loud voice to the brain dead losers.
I am similar except I voted for the NDP last election because BCCons had Dallas Broadie as their ATTORNEY GENERAL and a bunch of Maple MAGA morons in key roles. As long as the disease of populism dominates right of center parties I am going to vote for left of center ones because at least guys like Carney and Eby live in the same factual universe as I do and work hard to keep pure leftist ideologues out.
The constant battle of who’s the right kind of crazy that “owns the libs” vs being too crazy to actually be electable and run a party on the right goes on.
Our Liberal PM wants to run pipelines. Our NDP premier is begging for bail reform. The provincial government is against the Cowichan claim. The whole landscape has shifted pretty right in the last few years. Today’s federal Liberals are yesterday’s Progressive Conservatives. The provincial NDPs are moderate compared to the federal NDPs.
The hard right in BC has nothing to battle over other than social identity politics and the only people willing to play that game turn out to be nut jobs who eat their own.
The provincial NDPs are moderate compared to the federal NDPs.
This was always the case. Once the right leaning Liberals sold their souls to Social Credit Party and let them in the BC Liberals. A lot of the left leaning Liberals joined the NDP (think Ujjal Dosanjh who was provincially NDP but Federally Liberal with little change in views).
The difference if the NDP were forced left because of the Greens recently (similarly how the Federal NDP were forcing Trudeau's liberals to the left). Now that the Conservatives are forcing the left wing voters to settle for more right wing policies to not have the bat shit crazy right wingers, the Federal Liberals and Provincial NDP can act more like what they want.
Ironically the provincial NDPer were all blasting the Greens for being to the right of them but if anyone read the Green Policies new that was a lie.
I expect every government in BC historically would have been against the Cowichan claim. The fact that there was a suit that could not be settled via an agreement suggests to me that the Cowichan wanted more than the government was willing to give. Bearing in mind that this is the NDP government that is finally getting a lot more action done in land claims agreements than past or previous governments of all parties including the NDP in the past.
The current provincial NDP may be trying to lean into the moment with their retherotic being more on the right. But even without the shift we see now, I doubt their actual policy positions would have shifted all that much.
I won't address the prov NDP being moderate than the fed NDP as someone has already covered that. but personally, I see that more as a feature than a bug. While I might generally vote fed NDP, my natural home is in the prov NDP, and lies somewhere between the fed NDP and fed Libs. Just that usually it's closer to the fed NDP than the fed Libs which is why I typically vote fed NDP.
This group wasn't meant for the spotlight. They were misfits skulking in the shadows until the BC Libs raided their hideout after Falcon burned down the party.
good riddance, what a horrible woman. I hope I see her on the street with a squeegee. People need to see that if you are going to be a despicable piece of shit then there are consequences
So it seems she left over the party wanting to hire a staffer that is too extreme for her. In classic Dallas Brodie fashion, she's unwilling to keep the drama between those involved, and names names. The staffer is Othman Mkhloufi, who appears to be a neo-Nazi who not only supports the US invasion of Canada, but might actually be an American with ties to the White House?
Except it sounds like the reason she was kicked out was an internal fight against bringing in an over-the-top white supremacist staffer - and she was the one saying no.
Nah all politics. Look at the liberals firing Trudeau, or the NDP flip flopping on public drug use, or Biden falling asleep during the debate. It's all a circus
The Liberal's didn't fire Trudeau. He resigned for the good of the party, and then they won the election against all odds. Rustad was fired because he refused to resign. Dallas Brodie was fired.
The NDP didn't flip flop on public drug use. They tried something, it didn't work, so they reversed course. How can you possibly know if something will work unless you try it? Let's also keep in mind the decriminalizing drug use was supported by essentially all public health experts. The difference being that Conservatives try something, it doesn't work, and then they keep doing it because they govern by ego, not by intelligence.
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OneBC, the party formed after a split with the Conservative Party of B.C., says leader Dallas Brodie has been “removed” by the party’s board of directors.
The party’s only other elected member sitting in the B.C. Legislature, MLA Tara Armstrong, says she’s lost confidence in Brodie’s leadership, and the party’s website no longer includes any mention of Brodie.
Lol, lmao even
This just in: Dallas Brodie starting a new party called TwoBC
+1BC
That's one of the funniest things I've read all day
There's only one of them now so they can't even
Must have cleared out their official party funds.
Look, it's not the fault of the People's Front of Judea, it's those damn splitters at the Judean's People's Front!
https://i.redd.it/kuowl8m9ye7g1.gif
So not just kicked out but purged from The Party.
Bro how cuckoo for cocoa puffs do you have to be to get tossed from OneBC
It's more you are so bad in a way you get tossed from the party you yourself formed.
Formed by being one of the two MLAs in the entire new party and now the other MLA hates your guts lol
From a party that you founded and that consists of you and one other person?
Let's just say, these people left the BC Conservatives because they couldn't get along with anyone.
Are they making way for Rustad to take over the kook party?
According to Dallas Brodie's latest Facebook post, this all started because she found out one of the staffers working for her had said some really unacceptable things that were beyond the pale even for her, wanted the staffer fired, but her other advisors sided with the staffer and wanted her gone instead.
The head of the Dominion Society (a white supremacist group that supports "remigration" i.e. not just deporting all the temporary immigrants but PRs as well, AND even wanting citizens who are immigrants to "go back home") tweeted that he supports Tara Armstrong and the advisors that stood up to Brodie.
I'd take all this with a grain of salt (like Brodie obviously wants to make herself look not-completely-evil), and maybe the full story will leak out soon, but it's possible Brodie surrounded herself with even nuttier people who tossed her for not being racist enough to employ a literal neo-Nazi.
That actually makes sense. Brody kinda burned the bridges with Rustad when she left. Maybe Armstrong is in a more amicable relationship with him and trying to pull him to their new club so that they draw some people who recognize Rustad’s name.
And the cycle repeats.
I'm 40, but as a younger man, I aligned with conservative politics of the early 2000s.
A combination of life experience and the fact that my opinions about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were proved completely incorrect made me change a lot of my views.
But even if I don't share that ideology anymore, I can at least say that conservative politics used to have at least SOME grounding in reality.
Today, the movement is almost entirely driven by people who have liquefied their brains through consumption of online rage bait. It's embarrassing.
I think it's interesting that most people will agree with some level of fiscal conservatism but that form of conservative politics has been dead in Canada for a while - the closest thing we have now is Carney funnily enough. The current form of conservatism really focuses on culture wars and identity politics as their main issues.
That's because it failed. It led all of us into the mess we're in now.
they will nominally agree with it because none of them look at what the actual budget is for 1) their city 2) their province 3) or our country. Its easy to imagine a fantasy where we have wasteful spending (which we may have) but the large % of our spending is on social programs no one wants touched or infrastructure or now finally defense. Its why Doug Fords Ontario or the conservative governemnts in Quebec have such a hard time being 'fiscally responsible' and Smith only pulls it off because shes gut spending on education and healthcare.
I miss complaining about Harper. Those were the good old days.
I am around your age & have always been socially progressive but honest to god it's so refreshing to read your comment. you are correct.
I'd generally say centre-right, with history of voting BC Liberal and federal Conservative.
But I couldn't vote for the BC Conservative candidate in the last BC election because what nut jobs they are. In fact, I submitted a blank ballot.
And federally, I won't vote for my Conservative party candidate so long as Pierre Poilievre, or someone like him, is the party leader. I had no problem voting for my federal Liberal candidate last election.
I hate how the centre right and right wing parties have given such a loud voice to the brain dead losers.
I am similar except I voted for the NDP last election because BCCons had Dallas Broadie as their ATTORNEY GENERAL and a bunch of Maple MAGA morons in key roles. As long as the disease of populism dominates right of center parties I am going to vote for left of center ones because at least guys like Carney and Eby live in the same factual universe as I do and work hard to keep pure leftist ideologues out.
As a resident of Vancouver Quilchena I wish Dallas Brodie could be removed as my MLA.
https://preview.redd.it/gct58su92a7g1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e32c85e15f996212cf2d5e475c279207114335e0
I think a recall petition is happening
Recalls are a thing under provincial laws.
So the party of crazies that didn't find the regular party of crazies crazy enough for their crazy is coming apart because they are crazy?
I'm shocked.
In seriousness, who am I supposed to vote for? I'm a center right and I'm left with ndp and this crazy crew.
Ugh.
DoneBC.
🥁
Oh, well-played.
The constant battle of who’s the right kind of crazy that “owns the libs” vs being too crazy to actually be electable and run a party on the right goes on.
Our Liberal PM wants to run pipelines. Our NDP premier is begging for bail reform. The provincial government is against the Cowichan claim. The whole landscape has shifted pretty right in the last few years. Today’s federal Liberals are yesterday’s Progressive Conservatives. The provincial NDPs are moderate compared to the federal NDPs.
The hard right in BC has nothing to battle over other than social identity politics and the only people willing to play that game turn out to be nut jobs who eat their own.
This was always the case. Once the right leaning Liberals sold their souls to Social Credit Party and let them in the BC Liberals. A lot of the left leaning Liberals joined the NDP (think Ujjal Dosanjh who was provincially NDP but Federally Liberal with little change in views).
The difference if the NDP were forced left because of the Greens recently (similarly how the Federal NDP were forcing Trudeau's liberals to the left). Now that the Conservatives are forcing the left wing voters to settle for more right wing policies to not have the bat shit crazy right wingers, the Federal Liberals and Provincial NDP can act more like what they want.
Ironically the provincial NDPer were all blasting the Greens for being to the right of them but if anyone read the Green Policies new that was a lie.
I expect every government in BC historically would have been against the Cowichan claim. The fact that there was a suit that could not be settled via an agreement suggests to me that the Cowichan wanted more than the government was willing to give. Bearing in mind that this is the NDP government that is finally getting a lot more action done in land claims agreements than past or previous governments of all parties including the NDP in the past.
The current provincial NDP may be trying to lean into the moment with their retherotic being more on the right. But even without the shift we see now, I doubt their actual policy positions would have shifted all that much.
I won't address the prov NDP being moderate than the fed NDP as someone has already covered that. but personally, I see that more as a feature than a bug. While I might generally vote fed NDP, my natural home is in the prov NDP, and lies somewhere between the fed NDP and fed Libs. Just that usually it's closer to the fed NDP than the fed Libs which is why I typically vote fed NDP.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha get fucked!
Pointfive BC
This group wasn't meant for the spotlight. They were misfits skulking in the shadows until the BC Libs raided their hideout after Falcon burned down the party.
The hairs are splitting hairs
Good! (Even when I am away vacationing I still want to say this). The perfect politician for foreign powers to manipulate.
Conservative parties in Canada seem to be in shambles lately.
This psychopath was the Shadow Attorney General and a few unlucky breaks from BC our actual Attorney General.
good riddance, what a horrible woman. I hope I see her on the street with a squeegee. People need to see that if you are going to be a despicable piece of shit then there are consequences
See you next Tuesday!
Professionally incapacitated?
So it seems she left over the party wanting to hire a staffer that is too extreme for her. In classic Dallas Brodie fashion, she's unwilling to keep the drama between those involved, and names names. The staffer is Othman Mkhloufi, who appears to be a neo-Nazi who not only supports the US invasion of Canada, but might actually be an American with ties to the White House?
https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3lgy2yr7nfs2m
Yes, they kicked out their party leader for a neo-Nazi staffer who supports the US invasion of Canada.
https://preview.redd.it/5ezt3g7m5e7g1.png?width=1025&format=png&auto=webp&s=21cbebaee1c365ba2f595a4213b68567f444277e
Thats photo doesn't help...
She's a genocide denier and was told several times to stop but she kept it up.
Except it sounds like the reason she was kicked out was an internal fight against bringing in an over-the-top white supremacist staffer - and she was the one saying no.
Politics are embarassing lol
*Conservative politics are embarrassing.
Nah all politics. Look at the liberals firing Trudeau, or the NDP flip flopping on public drug use, or Biden falling asleep during the debate. It's all a circus
The Liberal's didn't fire Trudeau. He resigned for the good of the party, and then they won the election against all odds. Rustad was fired because he refused to resign. Dallas Brodie was fired.
The NDP didn't flip flop on public drug use. They tried something, it didn't work, so they reversed course. How can you possibly know if something will work unless you try it? Let's also keep in mind the decriminalizing drug use was supported by essentially all public health experts. The difference being that Conservatives try something, it doesn't work, and then they keep doing it because they govern by ego, not by intelligence.
Biden didn't fall asleep during the debate. You fell for republican disinformation. But we have video of Trump falling asleep during many official functions.
As I said, Conservative politics are embarrassing.