Premier Gordon Campbell's resignation guarantees Carole James will lead NDP in next election

How about Elizabeth May, instead?

Carol James should step aside and let someone with a chance of winning lead the party. I prefer to vote NDP but since Harcourt resigned they have had a total lack of credible leadership. It would be great if there was actually someone who had leadership qualities and a soul who would run for party leader.

How about BC Refed instead? Will they give control of politicians to voters like Mike Harcourt and the NDP of the day were supposed to after the voters voted over 80% for recall and 80% for binding referendums (if the Socreds had been returned to power) ? Treasonous acts by the NDP and every successive government after them.
Google Refed and see.

Carole James is totally competent to run the province. She is well versed in provincial politics, is dedicated to the well-being of the province and is as honest as they come. Her downfall is the fact that she lacks charisma which, sadly, is something the voting public feels is necessary in a Premier.

Just because you repeat the lies about the NDP record doesn't make them true. Funny how you think raising fears based on lies is scarier than the dismantling of this province under the BC Lieberals. Campbell and his Caucus (yes all of them are equally guilty) disregarded legal contracts - against the law, shall we mention Gordo's 48.1% personal pay hike and the 29% for MLA's in '07? while the rest of us lost buying power?, they closed 24 of the provinces 68 Courthouses and closed 85% of the legal aid offices in BC making it even harder to find Justice in this province especially for rural BCers, continueally lied to us i.e. No On-line Gaming No BC Rail Sale, No HST and then whoops! guess what we got as soon as everyone fell for the BC Lieberal lies and the election was over?, they lowered taxes for their rich friends thus making the rest of us middleclass and working por pay for the share of the rich, closed 176 schools showing their complete disregard for the futures of BC children,destroyed Senior Care throughout the province - SHAME!, pulled $16 million in student loans right out from under these young people as they were leaving for university once again trying to finance the shortfalls of this province off of the backs of working families,they have brought cuts to every service &/or program designed to actually help all of us while spending our money to help foriegn and other large corporations share our wealth with their offshore shareholders, perpetrated environmental damage at an alarming rate whether talking about support for polluters, fish farms destroying wild stocks or the giving away of our rivers, shall we talk about the closures of over 50 sawmills in the province because the BC Lieberals decided to remove the links of local lumber to local communities thus destroying small town British Columbia economies right across this province - this killed more small businesses than you can imagine, thousands and thousands of Forestry jobs - gone under this regime and not as a result of the global meltdown, but as a direct result of the BC lieberals efforts to push forward their own agenda, another election promise broken allowing the export of raw logs after promising otherwise!, now we get to pay $6 milliion to cover up the illegal actions taken throughout the BC Railgate Scandal, it is one thing to cover it up through multiple provincial elections but now we have to pay the legal costs of their hacks in order to shut them up, keeping the truth from us taxPAYERS? This is adding insult to injury! Give your heads a shake and embrace a new day of properity, honour and justice by voting Carole James into the Premiers office and letting things settle down to some calm and stability in this province. It is good for business!

I voted for Gordon Campbell and would do so again Carole James in her first election bid offered to scrap the carbon tax increase spending all around and cut taxes. that sounds like a fantasy to me you can't increase spending and cut your budget with which you spend. and in her second bid she was talking about diversifying cabinet by FORCING certain seats to be held by people of certain origins and gender and sexuality but didn't explain the process to assure quality (ex. riding a must have a woman is that woman chosen from all the women in the province or just that riding? what if in that riding there was a very good Asian male politician that couldn't run in riding B slotted for an Asian MLA and the woman in riding A wasn't qualified or the best candidate in the riding) she didn't talk about making sure the people could do the job but rather talked about slotting people of different ethnicity and backgrounds which wasn't a bad idea cause it would give the province a more accurate voice but she didn't spell out the criteria for hiring or quality assurance at all. Given the severance packages and pay scale our government workers make that could spell paying for incompetence. I also feel she pushes to hard on criticism of liberal policies rather than proactive problem solutions that add up, work and are well thought through before purporting them to the public.

Time for a Reality Check, big time. No federal legislation will overturn a provincial matter for a fixed election date. It's not as though the BC Liberal Party's new leader will be itching for an election, so chances are the election will happen as scheduled and not before.

That gives the BC NDP about 2 1/2 years to dump its current leader and find one with a smidgeon of charisma, not to mention economic aptitude. Carole James is the reason the BC NDP lost the last election and will lose the next, if they stick with her.

there is a major difference between the Carol James and
former BC NDP leader Dave Barrett in the 70s and 80s
in that 1st time Dave Barrett lost he was leading a government
that and alienated the unions with back to work legislation
Carol James was leading a party almost out of the wilderness to a political come back no one expected the NDP to form government under Carol James in 2005
they did very well to gain over 30 seats. The only reason
Gordon Campbell won a 3rd term is cause the people had been misled not only by the liberals but by the association of
independent home builders of BC

In my opinion, Carole should wear her hair - at this length, and not the shorter look.

There is only one comment in here that makes any case -- based on actual facts -- against Carol James. Most of the crap is just, "oh no I'd never vote for her." Why? She seems articulate and damn honest. At a time when she could have said, "I will scrap the HST as soon as I'm elected," she didn't. She honestly said it will be a mess to try to undo the thing. That's not what I wanted to hear, but at least we're getting a politician who speaks the truth.

People who refuse to vote for Carol James or the NDP because of their feelings are the kind of morons who don't hold people like Campbell accountable. Where were you when he lied about selling BC Rail? Where were you when he lied about not expanding gambling? Where were you when a corruption scandal was exploding around you? You put your hands over your ears to the truth and shut your eyes to an alternative government because of your emotional ideology. This mess is all your fault. You let Gordon Campbell and the Liberals get away with a lot of bullshit. And what'll happen when they change the face but not the lack of ethics in this party? You'll vote for them again. Too bad the rest of us have to live with your blind adherence to the Capatalist faith.