The Brian Jean column was reality once again knocking on Kenney’s door.

When will Premier Jason Kenney finally listen?

We hear rumours of big change but big change doesn’t come. Not even little change.

Is the premier digging in, hunkering down in his bunker confident in his political infallibility?

Now it’s former Wildrose leader Jean in the newspaper and he’s got something to say to Kenney, who is about as popular as a bad cold in more parts of the province than he’d care to admit and no amount of coal will warm him up.

Now you could try to write off Jean as one disgruntled guy, the person Kenney defeated in the race to become United Conservative party boss.

Maybe you could try to explain Jean away. Nothing to see here. Just a dude with an axe to grind.

You could try but you would fail. Miserably.

You see, in his shot across the bow, Jean expresses some of the thoughts this scribbler has also received from more than a few.

“I read your column. I knew something had to be said because it’s important to speak truth to power,” says Jean on Wednesday.

The man from Fort McMurray reminds me this is a party he and Kenney and many others built.

“There’s a lot of people who sacrificed a lot of stuff.”

The former Wildrose leader hears what I’ve heard. How could you not hear if you open your ears?

Jean doesn’t think Kenney and his inner circle are listening.

He says if the Kenney government continues down the road they’re on, “the people will change governments in the next election.”

Jean says discontent among United Conservative voters is “extremely high” and he’s talked to folks who have never voted for anyone but a conservative party but are not voting United Conservative next time around.

I ask Jean: Could they put their finger on what they don’t like about Kenney and his party?

“It’s a bit of arrogance, Rick. It’s the nicest word I can find.”