It’s only two days till Christmas, and the province’s political leaders are snug in their beds enjoying the Holiday season comforted by the knowledge that Albertans are also busy with their families this time of year and will soon forget that the political landscape of their province has changed.
So now that the majority of the official ‘opposition’ has jumped into bed with the party it loved to criticize for many years and as recently as two weeks ago, what could each of the party leaders be asking Santa for this Christmas?
Let’s see if we can get a peek at their letters to Santa:
Dear Santa,
Please let me win a seat in the Alberta Legislature during the next election.
With all these right-wingers holding their pre-Christmas love-fest, can’t we at least get a seat at the dinner table? For crying out loud, there’s even an independent who managed to get elected! How ridiculous is that…he isn’t even a member of a party!
Dear Santa,
Can we please pick up a seat somewhere outside of Edmonton, preferably in Southern Alberta?
If it wasn’t for the multitude of ‘liberal’ parties in Alberta – us, the Alberta Party and Liberal Party – maybe we could make some headway in this province.
Good ol’ Raj over there with the Liberals used to be a conservative, can’t you just get him to jump ship again and give us a chance to rule the roost on the left just for a little while?
Dear Santa,
Can we swap Alberta’s residents with Ontario’s? I know this may sound crazy, but this may be our only chance.
And for the love of God, can the next election not be so darn close? I eeked my way into the Edmonton-Meadowlark seat in 2012 by .8 per cent and I’m not sure if I can go through that again – it was so much easier in 2008 when I was a PC; maybe I should just accept my fate and get back on the old PC ship…I’m sure that would make Brian Mason’s Christmas extra special.
Dear Santa,
I’m good.
Dear Santa,
Get comfortable cause this list is long.
First, can we get a few more candidates and MLAs that not only talk the talk but walk the walk…but don’t walk too far, like over to the PCs?
For Pete’s sake, in 2012 we held 34 per cent of the popular vote, were up 27.5 percentage points, went from four to 13 seats and were the official opposition. Now look at us! Five seats, the same as the Liberal Party…what the heck happened?
Thanks for all the help, Danielle!
OK, OK, I need to calm down, I know.
Maybe, Santa, you could convince Raj to come back to the right. Or maybe even the Alberta Party…they were conservative once!
Can we also get some better pollsters in Canada? What was up with those final polls going into the 2012 election…how off were they?
Oh forget it…this is helpless. If we’re going to have people spontaneously jumping from party to party with no regard for loyalty, what’s the point?
