Thirteen months of seething tension and raging arguments within the Conservative Party of B.C. caucus and membership culminated in John Rustad resigning as Opposition Leader on Thursday.

The day previous, a one-person majority of his caucus had urged him to quit because he was “professionally incapacitated,” which sounds like one of the boxes to be ticked under the new involuntary-care regime for distressed people.

He dismissed that with a double-edged response: “I’m not going anywhere.”

The mutineers joined — anonymously — to name Surrey-White Rock MLA Trevor Halford as interim leader, but Rustad rejected that as well.

So “His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition”

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