What's in a name?

I see the so-called Liberal Party are scoping moves to trademark the word 'liberal' so that no other political entity can confuse the electorate with words like 'liberal democratic' in their title! The bloody sheer cheek of it is astounding!

Firstly, it tells us the 'Liberal' party's assessment of the electorate's collective intelligence. They apparently consider we don't understand plain english and/or, are incapable of studying and comparing political policies as propagated by various 'hopefuls' in the lead-up to a poll! Well... if there is a shred of truth in their conclusion, it may boil down to the old question "What's in a name?

In my opinion, the only thing about the so-called 'Liberal' party which fits the dictionary meaning of the word's small 'l' version... is their elected members' attitude to gathering of parliamentary perks! It is actually a misnomer. They are a CONSERVATIVE (Tory) party and, so as not to mislead the electorate they, themselves. should change their party name to more accurately reflect their real driving philosophy. And, if needed to prove my point, the so-called 'Labor' party operates a similar subterfuge. Despite the phonetic fiddling with spelling of the 'key' word, their original aim was to represent the 'labouring' classes. Again IMO, not one of their parliamentary representatives has done a day of hard physical labour perhaps since the time of Ben Chifley, (the actual engine-driving PM) and his ilk. They may perhaps more accurately describe themselves as a Socialist party... but, because of the slur cast on that description by its association with radical 20th century communism... don't hold your breath waiting for the ALP to take a dose of remedial 'salts' any time soon.

So.. the 'name slanging outbreak' is just that. Un-justified, small-minded and, unproductive behaviour like this is the reason why the intelligent Australian electorate is heartily sick to death of the gang of impostors we currently have to put up with in parliaments all around the country! Either get on with what we are over-paying you to do... or GET THE HELL OUT!