Social Credit Party president Carrol Woolsey says her party will not be contesting the current provincial election."The BC Social Credit Party will not be fielding candidates in the current election, but will field candidates any upcoming byelections."
Growing up in BC, there were only two viable parties running in provincial elections, the dirty, socialist NDP and the ruthless, capitalist Social Credit.
If you're older than I am, and I'm really old the Social Credit, or the "Socreds", were the only real party to vote for.
And there was only one real leader, W.A.C. Bennett.
My maternal grandmother's maiden name was Bennett. (No relation, and I thoroughly digress, kind of like an episode of Family Guy.)
As I mentioned above, the Social Credit Party, were the ruthless, capitalist party holding the dirty socialists hoards at bay and keeping British Columbia safe for democracy.
It wasn't always that way, though.
The party was created in Alberta to give money to working-class people "social credit" so they could afford to purchase the fruits of capitalism.
The BC Socreds weren't so much about giving money to working-class people, but making sure the province was a viable place to do business.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Rather than "social credit" we received hydroelectric dams, which gave us cheap, somewhat environmentally responsible electricity, roads to bring goods to market and BC Rail.
And then the Socreds met the colourful Bill Vander Zalm.
And Vander Zalm met the colourful Faye Leung.
Socred Party leader and provincial premier Vander Zalm had to resign due to conflict of interest from the sale of his Fantasy Gardens property by real estate agent Leung.
A whole book could be written about that.
The Social Credit party lost the subsequent election and has not recovered yet.
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Hi:
The Alberta Social Credit Party was developed based upon the theories of the originator of the Social Credit movement - Clifford Hugh Douglas.
William Aberhart, the first Social Credit Premier, read a book on Social Credit by Maurice Colbourne entitled "The Meaning of Social Credit" and decided that Social Credit was exactly what the people needed. He subsequently used his position as a radio broadcaster to promote Social Credit in Alberta.
Douglas and Aberhart were asked to testify before the Alberta Agricultural Commission with the then UFA government. The government at the time was not prepared to implement Douglas' ideas, but instead decided to run two sets of candidates in each riding: one a regular UFA candidate, and the other a Social Credit candidate. The Social Credit candidates won an overwhelming majority, and Aberhart, who did not run in the election, had to run in a bye-election in order to become leader of the party and Premier.
Social Credit does not promise dividends only to "working class" people, but to everyone. In fact, the whole purpose of the dividend is to supplement the wage as physical capital replaces labour in the productive process.
An introduction to Social Credit theory and history can be found on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit
There are also several essays on the subject, and many links which can be found at my blog, which can be accessed by clicking on my username.
Take care.
Socred, thank you for your insight and your expertise.
I wish you had published the article on your blog first, then I could have plagiarized from it extensively and I would have looked like I knew what I was talking about.
If it's okay, I would like to post your comment as a post on my blog, of course giving you full credit and linking to your blog.
Hi Anthony:
You are certainly welcome to post my comments, or anything that I've posted publically on your blog (I and a colleague wrote the Wikipedia article on Social Credit).
I thank you for giving Social Credit some publicity, because I honestly feel that these ideas are the only sane solution to "boom and bust" capitalism, or what should more appropriately be termed "creditism".
Take care.
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