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 Post subject: What's in a name
PostPosted: Sat May 11, 2013 1:42 pm 
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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?

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 Post subject: Re: What's in a name
PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2013 5:01 pm 
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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 ?

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 Post subject: Re: What's in a name
PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 11:54 am 
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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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