The NDP government of Glen Clark is under a furious attack from right wing forces in British Columbia.
The media friendly raid on Clark's house by the RCMP was clearly retribution for Clark's comments surrounding the APEC scandal.
The campaign against the Nisga'a deal is just plain racist.
And the attacks on the NDP government for running a deficit and "cooking the books" are a hypocritical attempt by the media to force even deeper cuts.
But Clark has responded to the attacks by being defensive and shifting the party hard to the right.
The recent resignations of Joy McPhail and Sue Hammell, if not an actual coup inside cabinet, have allowed Clark to signal a hard right shift in the party.
Finance Minister McPhail has been replaced by former Liberal Leader Gordon Wilson.
As Wilson noted when he was first brought into the cabinet: "I haven't shifted in terms of my position on the political spectrum. This is a government moving to make some changes."
This hasn't helped the party however. It remains mired at the bottom of the polls with predictions by an NDP connected polling firm of a wipeout in the next election.
And members are leaving the party in droves. Membership has dropped from 20,000 to 14,000 since the last election.
This isn't primarily the result of the campaign by the business press. It is the result of years of attacks on working people.
Clark has imposed wage restraint on public sector workers while granting tax breaks for big business and banks worth more than $1-billion.
Retraining programs have been cut at the same time as there is 40% unemployment in the coastal lumber mills.
Rather than winning the support of big business and the media it has only increased their frenzy for blood. And yet the NDP leadership is surprised by this.
Joy McPhail the former Finance Minister expressed surprise in January that "myths around our taxation system and what our relationship with business is, still exist."
Business will never support the NDP. Workers will not support an NDP which lies and attacks them in the interests of big business.
The headlong plunge to the right is only making it harder for the NDP to build its base, and easier for business and the right-wing to press home their attacks.