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Author:  toots [ Sat May 11, 2013 1:42 pm ]
Post subject:  What's in a name
Found this little snippet when googling

Why are the Conservatives happy to be called 'Tories' and 'The Tory Party', when the word means "outlaw, robber or brigand", from the Irish Gaelic tóraidhe or tóraí? Many will think the name suits, but is it not bad PR?
Author:  edders23 [ Sun May 12, 2013 5:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: What's in a name
toots wrote:
Found this little snippet when googling

Why are the Conservatives happy to be called 'Tories' and 'The Tory Party', when the word means "outlaw, robber or brigand", from the Irish Gaelic tóraidhe or tóraí? Many will think the name suits, but is it not bad PR?



It goes back to the days when the Whigs and the Torys were the 2 main parties are you sure about the derivation it seems a bit odd that any political party would adopt that as their name ?
Author:  trotskys twin [ Mon May 13, 2013 11:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: What's in a name
edders23 wrote:
toots wrote:
Found this little snippet when googling

Why are the Conservatives happy to be called 'Tories' and 'The Tory Party', when the word means "outlaw, robber or brigand", from the Irish Gaelic tóraidhe or tóraí? Many will think the name suits, but is it not bad PR?



It goes back to the days when the Whigs and the Torys were the 2 main parties are you sure about the derivation it seems a bit odd that any political party would adopt that as their name ?


But in this case highly appropriate :D :D
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