News that a constituency association has proposed a name change from the New Democratic Party to the Social Democratic Party at the upcoming NDP convention prompted some Opposition jibes in question period Thursday.
Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall announced his party would hold a contest and he invited provincial residents to make their own suggestions for a replacement name for the NDP.
“We already have some submissions for the name because everywhere we go … you’d be surprised how creative people are in terms of what they call that governing party opposite,” Wall said to guffaws from his caucus.
“We’ve seen it already on Highway 368 on signs ‘No Darn Pavement, the New Destruction Party, New Democratic Potholes.’ There’s any number of suggestions out there.”
Be sure to share your suggestions in the comments!
The suggestion that Calvert & Co. might begin to slither away from the party of Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton comes on the heels of a whirlwind of change – On October 26th came the declaration of a new provincial stat holiday in February, followed a day later with a cut from 7% to 5% of the PST. And then just a day or two ago, further cuts to business taxes.
So, one might wonder what happened on October 17th or thereabouts to put the burr under their saddle.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again – SDA gets results!
How about the Sasquatch Party?
How about “Fundamentally Unstable Socialist Anti-Success Knuckleheads” or F U Sask. That Way Minister Klein could work Saskatchewan into the name and quit whining.
Naturally Decomposed Party: NDP
Hey, they wouldn’t do it any other way now would they?
ERP – Eat the Rich Party
-or-
Straight White Christians Are Evil Party.
What an annoying peice of politics. I know politicians latch on to anything that can further their party, but this one just seems a little bit… trivial, especially considering the sask party changed their name at one time aswell. I mean, isn’t this just kind of childish? Pretty-well Corrupt worked well for the PC party. But then if I were to have said that, I would be called childish. Oh how people attach themselves to their little peice of identity… All or nothing, all or nothing.