Shreck's issue specific analysis is usually spot on, but when he gets into the party politics it is sometimes bewildering.

Folks will recall that Schreck delivered the Ujjal leadership victory and subsequent complete and utter electoral disaster leaving the NDP without even party status in BC.

In other words he ushered in the party's near death experience, and now he calls for Dix's head?

Really? We saw how throwing leaders under the bus after every election loss treated the federal Liberals, it simply committed to a never ending downward spiral.

Backroom types like Schreck know that characters like Scott and Lavigne, Rutkowski etc are what the last few elections, including Ujjals disaster have in common.

So instead of throwing leaders under the bus lets see if the long time hacks can clean up the inner circles of the party, remember Dix did pull a larger percentage of the vote than the current Harper "majority" despite the Topp-down, Hill and Knowlton managed "campaign."

I know it shocks me too he managed so well!

Makes me think he might be the guy to clean house, even he does decide to exit.

I go back and forth. It was not only a leadership issue that lost the NDP the election. Adrian Dix is a good, even exceptional leader in my opinion. It was an entire party culture, a problem of insular thinking among those with long tenure. Trust in the wrong advice led to an inappropriate approach. How does finding a temporary leader address that? There should be some joint custody of this disaster among the other decision makers. Who hired the campaign team? When it was 'revealed' whom that included why were they not immediately fired? Was this the perview of the Secretary, President, leader or all three? More than a single new face is needed now.

I suspect though that every day that passes without some kind of comeuppance bleeds money and members from the party. I have zero faith in the review and was disappointed when reading the names of those involved. If their findings do not amaze, there will be calls of 'whitewash'. It falls on the shoulders of a leader to step up now and offer a resignation. So, sorry to you, Mr. Adrian Dix, who I respect and admire. It is time.

I am less interested in who holds the temporary job. When there is no fight taken to the BC Liberals during the campaign, what sane person cares what is raised in the legislature? Give it to any MLA not contemplating a leadership bid.

Today, I wrote a sincere if still annoyed e-mail to Nathan Cullen asking him to step forward as a candidate for leader of the BCNDP. Should he decide to enter, I will support him and offer a donation.

I was highly critical of Mr. Cullen for proposing what I saw as a treacherous deal to run joint candidates with the Liberals and Greens in federal politics. I can't see him dreaming up that kind of nightmare scenario in provincial politics. I am pretty sure the BC Liberals and BC Greens as parties will keep their distance. I hope though, that voters, both those with environmental sensibilities and those focused on job creation will find plenty to like in a Premier Cullen. Go Nathan!

It's not surprising that the people who are loudest calling for immediate Leadership action are the people who are most notorious for their leadership foibles

Schreck: Ujjal ('nuf said)

Guy Gentner: Helped push Carole James out of Leadership, now wants to push Dix out...Lemme guess, his person (Farnsworth) lost both times so he's all sour grapes on every leader until Farny becomes Leader?

I think we have much more important things to do besides "ousting" the leader. How about we replace the President and address the general party dysfunction first? Otherwise, it makes no difference WHO the leader is. We need thinking, speaking people on the Executive, who question the Leader, President and Provincial Secretary. Otherwise we will just keep repeating our mistakes....

No I'm sorry voters who didn't vote and still have their voters card want Adrain Dix to stay on. Each and every candidate ran in their own ridings and in mine they ingnored the real issues needing to be adressed.
Adrain Dix needs to attend a meeting in the Comox Valley then make a discission.

I'd give Dix another round - but I want to see changes. The policy of "practically nothing" did not inspire, but was enough to enrage those who worry about us as a government. We need to be clear, if Dix decides to fight like he did as Health Critic - then let him go for round two, if he wants to remain meek lookin' change. I think Dix has learned what did not work, and if we get behind him he would be stronger than any other choice. Let's give him another go. but let him say he wants to fight for it. No more Topp, No more Ottawa spinners, and a party that wants activists to get involved again.

One of the myths that has taken hold is that Adrian Dix ran a "positive" campaign and that is why he lost. The truth is that day in and day out Dix would claim to be running positive, yet in the next breath take clear, negative shots against Christy Clark or her party. His candidates took exaggerated claims about the government to the doorstep and the media. The party threw lots and lots of rocks in the media, especially in the last week of the campaign, for example with "timely" court filings on Dix's hobby horse the Therapeutics Initiative. The disparity between stated claim and actual behaviour was evident to many – and part of the reason that Dix lost credibility. This is why I'm not convinced that running a truly negative campaign next time will provide the winning factor. We just saw a negative NDP campaign and it didn't work. But the answer is not to have a positive campaign that is genuinely positive. The NDP's inability to create a clear, compelling message is not a tactical campaign error. It is a symptom of problems that run much deeper.

Dix speaks(English) on the Punjabi News yesterday.
What is he really saying about his future?

http://www.omnibc.ca/news/?language=18

I agree. Dix looks like he will fight for the job. He has gumption and with that new fire in his belly he looks like he will win the next election after learning from his mistakes. We are only human.

Who cares.