XPost: bc.politics, van.general, vic.general   
   From: rmck@yatestownbc.com   
      
   "Canuck57"  wrote in message   
   news:SztLn.21245$HG1.18525@newsfe21.iad...   
   > On 27/05/2010 5:54 AM, Robert MacKenzie wrote:   
   >>   wrote in message   
   >> news:KqhLn.92721$0M5.15400@newsfe07.iad...   
   >>> Yes !  Point Grey is a wealthy neighbourhood of people who could   
   >>> probably   
   >>> afford paying more taxes - moreso than 90% of the rest of the Province,   
   >>> but even THEY are fed up.  Good on you, Point-Grey residents.  Two more   
   >>> ridings to go, and it's done.   
   >>> Then we see if Campbell and his dogs dare to defy the voters on having a   
   >>> GST referendum - and killing the HST.   
   >>   
   >> The HST will stay. You should now go after the NDP to ensure that they   
   >> repeal it as a condition   
   >> of their becoming government, as the BC Liberals will not get rid of the   
   >> HST.   
   >   
   > NDP repeal taxes, LMAO.  No way to enforce that as a condition either.   
   > BCers need a new party.  Start by voting in lots of independent types   
   > which signals you want a better choice than the Lib or NDP.   
      
   Alot of good that will do. You'll initially have 85 individual and   
   independent voices which will appeal to persons like yourself, but   
   over time a few of those "indpendent voices" will congeal into a group to   
   vote together on something as a majority to get something   
   passed that the other independent voices don't like, so they will congeal   
   into a group of opposition.   
      
   and just who decides who is responsible for what Ministry? One independent   
   voice on his own cannot decide to take over one   
   Ministry because he has an interest in that Ministry's subject without   
   consideration of the others.   
      
   Then there's leadership. Who exactly brings these 85 "independent voices"   
   together?   
      
   Sounds good in the context of right wing libertarian thinking, but not   
   particularly practical. Even the Libertarian Candidates themselves   
   are not individual independently voiced candidates, 100%. At some point they   
   agreed to a commonality of direction when it comes to   
   policy.   
      
   Reminds me of the Civic Independents that featured Mike Harcourt, but that   
   so-called "civic independents"  group was hardly a   
   group of si people with absolute individual independent voices or   
   positioning within the politics of the City of Vancouver.   
      
   As for the NDP, there is.   
      
   It's quite simple. You tell them:   
      
   "Either set your policies to repeal the HST or you're not getting the   
   support it will take to become government (or NDP for this riding)"   
      
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