We are in Desparate Need of ...

New Labels for our Political Parties.

But first:

I think I am coming to the end of my prolific phase of doing Blogs. Simply stated, feedback is becoming less and less so I am assuming fewer are reading my Blogs.

I started my Blogging with a main purpose in mind - to provide my children and grandchildren with a view counter to what they were receiving in their schools and by way of the liberal media.

Whether I have been successful in that - I simply do not know.

What I do know though, is that I did my best and my conscience is clear.

I also like to write, I did enjoy the phase.

And I especially liked to write about how things 'have changed since the 1960s'. Nowhere is the change more evident than in the area of religion.

In 1962 a self styled evangelist by the name of Templeton wrote a book entitled The Comfortable Pew. The book savaged the established Church and correctly predicted its coming decline in Society.

We see today that he was a visionary, with half empty churches while Malls are bursting at their seams - particularly on the Sabbath. These Malls have become Society's New Temples of Worship.

Anyway, I have said what I wanted to say in this regard and am now planning to dramatically reduce my production.

But two more immediate topics.

In the first, I want to deal with the nomenclature for our main Political Parties in Canada, to be followed next time with a Blog on what I see Libertarianism to be - for me.

The Names of our Three Main Parties:

Need to be changed since they tell you nothing about the Party itself.

Taking the New Democratic Party first. It certainly no longer is new and to say it is Democratic is to say the obvious in a democratic system. That leaves the word Party which too is in doubt given that it really is Two Parties - one for the Rest of Canada and one for the separatist leaning former Bloc Quecbers.

So 'New Democratic Party' must go.

I suggest it be replaced by the 'Big Union Party in support of Rich and Pampered Employees in both the Public and Private Sectors' (the 'BUPisoRaPEibtPaPS'). Admittedly a mouthful but it much better describes this Party.

And the Liberals. They can and should be renamed to the 'Party that Stands for Anything and Everything that may Lead to Power' (PtSfAaEtmLtP).

And then the Tories. Their name should be changed to the 'Party that Almost Stands for Anything and Everything that may Lead to Power' (PtASfAaEtmLtP).

Let's take debt / deficits as an example.

In the mid 90s the Liberals under PM Chretien / Finance Min Martin - disposed of the massive deficit left them by Conservative Mulroney. Today, Tory Harper has given us the biggest deficit in Canadian History.

All to say, current names Conservative / Progressive Conservative / and Liberal - do not begin to describe what the poor voter is voting for.

Once again we need a new party - like the Reform Party of before but one, unlike the olde Reform Party, that is serious about giving the voter a marked choice.

This, plus the new descriptive names for the 'other three parties', will enable the voter to make an informed decision.

So Galagher - what do you propose we call this new party?

The Grass Roots Platform Party - GRPP.

As I see it ...

'K. D. Galagher'