On CBC Power & Politics today it was described as a gamble. Lots for the BCNDP to potentially lose but lots also to potentially gain. It worked for Doug Ford but that doesn't necessarily mean it will work for Eby.

The BC Cons were a bit of an unknown in Oct 2024, they were close to power but then fell apart continuously over two years. The same folks are in and around the alphabet soup of conservative parties that might reconstitute themselves into something, but one thing I am confident in is that trying the same playbook as just be anti-Eby and try to look competent for long enough, isn't going to work out for them. Eby has room for one or two unforced errors compared to the chaotic summer of Conservative unforced errors, but I'll keep my feelers out on the rate a new unified centre-right party picks up steam. Oh, and up until Friday, KLF was confident she wasn't going anywhere, the BCNDP were already signalling election moves and didn't just start thinking about it when they became leaderless, so it's not that strong of a point even if it is a technically unprecedented situation to call an election without a decided election leader.