Horgan blasts Greens and eco-activists on his way out, calls them little better than thugs.....
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This is not how John Horgan wanted his five years as premier to end.
Instead of cruising into retirement touting how he maintained record-high popularity levels despite devastating wildfires, unprecedented floods and a global pandemic, Horgan has been forced to defend his party after a fractious B.C. NDP leadership campaign named David Eby his successor after disqualifying the only other candidate.
Instead of reflecting on how, in the face of a nail-biting seat tie with the ruling B.C. Liberals in the 2017 election, he reached a historic deal with the B.C. Greens to form government, he’s been driven to anger over what he called the “thuggery” employed by members of that same party who, in his view, tried to take over the NDP and install a climate activist as the next premier.
That anger, a flashback to the “Hulk Horgan” persona that would make an appearance during his three years as Opposition leader, rose to the surface again Thursday when Horgan was asked a pointed question about whether the B.C. NDP executive membership list is made public.
As backlash grew from grassroots New Democrats frustrated that the party executive disqualified Anjali Appadurai from the leadership race over alleged rule breaking and fraudulent membership signups, Horgan said the 41-member executive, a diverse group of volunteers from all over the province, had been “inundated … by Green party members saying we want to take over your party.”
“They’re doing their job, they’re volunteers and they’re going to be abused by a bunch of people who cheated and want to get away with it. I can’t be more frustrated by that type of thuggery,” Horgan said before storming off.
Speaking about that with Postmedia News on Friday, Horgan said his ire was directed at environmental activists who use any means to advance their cause, such as the incident in February 2020 when environmental protesters with Extinction Rebellion converged on his Langford home and harassed his wife, Ellie.
“She didn’t know who these people were. She didn’t know that they were, in my opinion, hapless ne’er-do-wells. She was terrified. They traumatized her.”
Horgan said his wife of 38 years, who never wanted to be in the public spotlight, now “wonders if someone drives slowly down the street, whether they’re coming to our house.”
Appadurai, a 32-year-old climate activist, has said she was mobilized to challenge David Eby for the leadership by grassroots New Democrats fed up with the compromises the government has made to stay in power, including proceeding with the Site C megadam — a project Horgan said “sucks” when he was in opposition — and expanding the liquefied natural gas sector.
That, Horgan said, doesn’t justify breaking the rules.
“I would say to those who were trying, in my opinion, to take over a successful operation because theirs is a failure: Get lost. There’s five million people in British Columbia who know that life is about trade-offs and making sure we compromise to get progress. And that’s what I’ve been all about for as long as I can remember”
Eco-freaks are the exact mirror to the clowns on the right who engage in the same tactics. The average dipshit out there dumping milk on the floor of the grocery store or letting the air out of an SUV's tires have about the same IQ as the POS's on the right who were blaring their truck horns all night long down residential streets in Ottawa. It should be obvious to pretty much everyone by now, especially in BC where for decades they've been spiking trees in order to injure logging & timber workers. Look at those two little rich girl bitches who vandalized the Van Gogh painting in England last week as an example of how genuinely stupid these people on the hard-left really are - typical of pretty much anyone who goes to art school, thanks to their overly wealthy & indulgent parents, they don't have even a single brain cell to share between the two of them. All they're armed with is a colossal ignorance of the real world, which they've inexplicably managed to weaponize, combined with the dead-eyed self-assurance of the self-proclaimed infallible puritan.
I have no great love for Horgan, not after he tried to nuke Alberta with his unconstitutional shenanigans aimed at stopping the TMX expansion. But he's damn right about the Greens and the idiots that travel along with them. They're nothing but a cancer on the political system. That the national media, especially the CBC, refuses to ever examine the environmental movement (or any of the creepy characters involved with it) with any sort of critical eye is a disgrace on Canadian journalism.
CKA Uber 
