An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. POLITICS IS WONDERFUL. The worst of enemies can suddenly become the best of friends. Leopards can change their spots. North can become south. So it is that two provincial parties will team up, in a manner of speaking, to defeat the dastardly New Democrats who are, apparently, destroying B.C. It was only last week that BC United, formerly the BC Liberals, were characterizing BC Conservatives as tinfoil-hat people, and leader Kevin Falcon was saying the BC Conservatives “are at risk of becoming a conspiracy party, not a Conservative party.” BC United MLAs routinely characterized the BC Conservatives as extremists. That is, until they started realizing how much trouble their party was in, and started defecting to the Conservatives in hopes of their own political survival. When Falcon stood beside BC Conservative leader John Rustad today (Aug. 28, 2024) and announced the suspension of the BC United election campaign, it wasn’t for his own political survival. In fact, he sealed his own political demise — he won’t run in the October election. No, he simply threw in the towel and passed the torch to Rustad and the Conservatives. There will be no coalition, no reconciliation of … Continue reading EDITORIAL – Nothing stays the same in the wonderful world of politics