Thread by @CGouef

🧵Put yourself in the position of someone who was forced to evacuate yesterday. Your life was just turned upside down, you're sitting in the passenger seat of your car, and you check social media. (1/8)
#ableg #abpoli #FiretheUCP

You figure, you're driving to an evacuation center, might as well let people know you're okay while you're on your way. First thing you see though is Dani on the podium at a Calgary UCP fundraiser. Then you scroll further to see the buffet and UCP branded ice sculpture. (2/8)

Then you look in your own rear view window and the orange smoky sky dominates your line of sight. Immediately, the contrast is clear. Dani's been partying it up while you've been packing your most valuable items, not knowing if you're going to see your home ever again. (3/8)

You're down and out, you've been instructed to leave, and you open up social media to see that. Imagine the reaction. It's hard enough for you to get a response from your MLA during normal times, and Dani's got a photo op with all smiles going on in Calgary. (4/8)

You can't say that the UCP is the party of the average working person. It's not the party that will stick up for you. It will always be attracted to money like a fly is to shit. Money talks. You don't. That's all there is to it. They don't care about you. (5/8)

To the UCP, you're just votes. You're just a number that only matters at election time. They'll throw money at you in the months leading up to the election and then they'll claw it back afterward citing the economy or something like that. It's all BS. (6/8)

If you elect the UCP and Calgary gets flooded, or a wildfire completely burns down a town or small city, this is what you can expect Dani to do: Fundraisers before emergencies. The UCP has proven this to be true time and time again. (7/8)

Alberta has to be productive partners with Ottawa and the feds because we need them during emergencies like these. We cannot survive on our own. We cannot afford to keep fighting Ottawa. (8/8)