Sixth Estate Opens Competition for New Name for BC Liberal Party
British Columbia is in the process of setting one record, and in the next few months it may set another. I can’t think of another occasion in Canadian history when a sitting majority government was openly deciding whether it should oust a leader before she even gets a chance to lead her party into an election, or whether to change its name in a bid to stem off the New Democratic Party.
Personally, I find the second option to be the smarter one. Residents of British Columbia are intellectually defective, even more so than most Canadians. By the time we get around to next spring’s election, those who haven’t simply forgotten the changeover happened at all will still be fooled into thinking that the newly renamed party is actually a different party. With the same leader. And the same MLAs. And the same policies. But never mind that. It’s all in the name, right?
Even the other politicians in B.C. are stupid. Today Ken Boessenkool, who’s been sent out to the hinterlands by the federal Conservatives to rescue their “Liberal” ally Christy Clark, phoned up the BC Conservative Party (a sort of Wildrose clone currently tied with the Liberals in the polls) and offered them one heck of a good deal: they could all join the Liberals, accept the Liberal leader as their leader, and in exchange the Liberals would change their name. The power-hungry Conservatives naturally rejected this generous offer.
I’m entirely on board with the Boessenkool Plan, and to that end, I’m asking my readers to contribute names for the new party. The best candidates will of course be forwarded to the appropriate persons for consideration.
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sushi
The Harpur Party?
The BCCPC?
The Wilde Skookumchuck Party?
Sixth Estate
You’ll have to spell out BCCPC for me.
And it had better be interesting!
Ray Blessin
The Conservative Reform Alliance Party.
Or the C.R.A.P.
Sixth Estate
Unfortunately I think that one’s already taken.
This would be Conservative Liberal Alliance Party, or CLAP.
Which, come to think of it, works just as nicely.
Sixth Estate
As in, BC could have a bad case of the CLAP next spring.
Lenny
The Liberals were called Socreds before. It doesn’t matter what they’re called – as long as the people label themselves right wing they’ll vote for it. Most of the right wingers are old, retired govt stiffs who never completed high school, got their jobs through nepotism and have never known a hard day and bought properties now worth millions, and vacation in the south for six months of the year. Visit central BC and you’ll get an idea.
Coral
How about the “NoCreds”?
Sixth Estate
I like it.
Mogs
How about The BC Libel Party?
Saskboy
The BC Party is obvious, if not already taken.
The Wild Salmon Party
Jymn
The Librose Alliance