Doug Collins

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SO THE Socreds took my advice and chose Bill Vander
Slam! For a while there, I thought they were going to be sil-
ly. As it is. the Kinsella gang sot their come-uppance and

all is weil.

The leadership convention may
now be history, but it was worth
attending, if only to see the jaws
of the pundits hit the deck when
Red Tory Bud Smith went over to
Real Tory Bill Slam.

They had it all arranged, did the
pundits. Reporters were duped,
too. 1 offer this immortal quote
from the front page of Wednes-
day’s early edition of the Evening
Wimp:

“The Smith who finished lower
was to throw his support behind
his namesake’’ — a reference to
an imagined deal between Smith
(Bud) and Smith (Bryan).

Hungry newshounds are ever
suckers for rumor, having to
report something and there being
so much space to fill.

As I smugly informed a former
Sun colleague who couldn't credit
what had happened: ‘‘In politics,
anything is possible. Never forget
that Stalin kissed Hitler.’’

In the run-up to a fight like
Wednesdav’s, media garbage is
unconfined. Marjorie Nichols,
who as far as I can remember has
# never been right about anything

political, predicted that if Vander

Slam became premier ‘‘the Social

Credit “arty will be = split

asuuder’’.
| The Bhagwan Rafe Mair was

saying the same thing. If Slam

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won, he asseverated, we would see

a resurgence of the Liberals and
Tories in these parts. Well, predic-
tions like that from types like
that, render the future of the
Socreds under Slam as sure as the
immovability of the North Shore
mountains. And you should have
seen Mair’s face when his crony
Bud Smith went over to Slam the
Untouchable. It would have been
worth paying money to watch.

Where these experts get their
news and views from is a mystery.
but it’s my guess that they pet
them from each other. Either
that, or, as Marjorie is so fond of
saying, ‘‘Maybe someone’s been
smoking something.”’

There’s also been much talk
about cabinet ministers who
would quit rather than serve
under Slam.

Well, four ministers said a long
time ago that they would be retir-
ing anyway. So don't count them.
Jim Nielsen has been yelling thai
he would have to consider what he
would do if the wrong guy won,
but he may like his job more than
he hates Slam. As for Stephen
Rogers, who has sworn not to
serve under Slam, he can go chew
curry with his South Fraser consti-
tuents and do some more praying
for a non-Christian province.

My bet is that in the cold light

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of the new Social Credit dawn,
most of Slam’s opponents will
stand up and salute him. Or lie
down and grovel. No one is better
at eating crow than your run-of-
the-mill politician. Even if they
decline to dine on crow, our man
could pick up a dozen good
ministers any day. All he has to do
is to scan the Ambleside New
Right.

Predictions of the break-up of
Social Credit under Slam are dot-
ty. ft is more likely that the party
would break up without him. He
is the only one who can win an
election for them. And even if he
can’t, no one else would be able to
do it either.

Slam has fire in his ass.

All the talk about his being a
loser because of his confronta- |
tional ways is wimp-talk. Without
him, the Socreds would sink into
being a party of the middle, anda
party of the middle is a party of
the nothing, just like our phoney
Tories in Ottawa.

There will be some local
changes as a result of the Slam
victory. Jack Davis will be back in !
cabinet, he having backed th.
right man from the start; John
Reynolds stands a chance, too, he
also having taken his delegates
over to Slam. Obviously,
Reynolds ran only to sell to the
best prosoect.

Go for it, Slam. And don’t let
me down by doing something daft
like banning South African wines.
If you do, [’ll never give you a
good reference agai!

Terry Dusome, 948 Viney Road,
North Vancouver, (over .08, $300
fine and prohibited from driving
for six months); Bradley Cowen,
707-4900 Francis Road, Rich-
mond. (ver .08, $325 fine and
prohibi:ed from driving for six
months); Sarah Jackman, 1263
West {6th Street, North Van-
couver, (over .08, 14 days jail.)

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&
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