A Review of the Last Couple Days

Far be it from me to actually defend alwards decision to jet to Newfoundland while one of his party members who had won three consecutive elections decides to pack it in, instead of standing with him showing support for his decision.

Reality is the pure optics of this will bite him in the Ass in the end as it shows just another disconnect with the way Alward feels about the people in the trenches working to get him elected

The only bright spot in this is Alward went to visit the one premier with an 80%+ approval rating and a set of natural resources rivaling ours and we can only hope it was done for the purposes of getting some ideas of what to do with our precious resources. Even better perhaps he was going to get some idea of how to get our province off the recieving end of transfer payments.

But the reality of it was that it was to discuss energy and what he was discussing (an energy transmission deal) is something that realistically he does not have the right or ability to deal with as an opposition member and not till he is elected as premier which makes the optics of skipping Mr Leblanc's resignation extremely bad and leads to questions being asked of whether Mr Leblanc left willingly or was he pushed out in favour of a more vibrant (or leader friendly) person

on a final note the facebook poll started yesterday was done again today

Today's figures:
June 8
Conservatives 810 an increase of 1, at 38.9%;
PANB 696 an increares of 13, at 33.5%;
NDP 281 unchanged at 13.5%;
Liberal 225 an increase of 3 at 10.7%; and
Green Party data unavailable ( last reported 68) at 3.3 %.

and the upward trend continues