Barrel Strength

On the pages of Facebook and Blogging Tories I have spotted postings by keeners on the notion of a resurrected Reform Party of Canada and actual moves to make the paper Reform Party of Ontario into something with warm bodies.

Of the latter I have little to say other than it might be wise to make good first on an attempt to take down John Tory before embarking on a twenty-first century peasants’ revolt beyond 905 and 416. If the provincial Progressive Conservative label is tainted from the last vote, I rather think that slimwhitman.on.ca is a poor choice for horse-switching.

But for the millennials who are contemplating the federal voodoo of raising Reform from its grave, I have to ask: what the hell part of seventeen years of brutal, pointless political civil war do you not understand?!

Many, including your correspondent, suffered through frustration at the ballot box, broken friendships, unbearable stress, wasted opportunities and years of needless, wanton Liberal oligarchy just to get back to square one and arrive at a winning coalition.

We were happy to achieve peace under Stephen Harper and we will not let go of it gently. Trust me, at the very least you will be wasting your time in a pointless sideshow but if you persist nothing will be spared to restore that peace. Nothing.

Do not force Cincinnatus to leave his farm again.