Oh my God, Premier Clark might be right after all. Maybe there is a virulent virus infecting the halls and closets and backrooms of the B.C. Legislature.
First the NDP party members started backbiting each other, then the BC Liberals started and now the BC Conservatives are doing the same thing. The ‘political sickness’ has got so bad John ‘Ping-pong’ van Dongen, the only BC Conservative MLA, has abandoned his party leader, John Cummings, just like he recently abandoned Christy Clark.
Apparently the symptoms of this Victorian strain of the ‘sickness’ are the same as those for rabies: partial paralysis (of the brain), anxiety (about answering questions), insomnia (worrying the truth will come out), confusion (about who you can trust), agitation (with the media), abnormal behaviour (spending taxpayers’ money foolishly), paranoia (constantly looking over your shoulder for rivals), hallucinations (believing the voters love and respect you) and progressive delirium (thinking you can be premier forever).
I’m willing to defer to Christy Clark’s expertise on this matter because she’s been suffering from all the symptoms ever since she became the leader of the BC Liberal party.
Lloyd Atkins