Tory

Tory
   In the late 1670s there was a proposal to exclude Charles II’s younger brother James from the throne because of his avowed Catholicism. Those who supported his succession were accused of being sympathetic to the Catholic Church. Tory was an originally abusive name used to describe Irish Catholic outlaws who lived in the middle, ‘bog’ counties of Ireland, hence the literal meaning ‘bog trotters’. The term has tended to be employed to describe a Conservative of a more reactionary kind, the literary Dr Johnson characterising a Tory as someone ‘with an instinctive reverence for what was established, a respect for government and the Crown, a loyalty towards the Church of England and a prejudice in favour of the landed interest’. Today, Tory remains a popular name for a member of the Conservative Party, being often used to describe a person who espouses traditional rather than modern Conservative values. The term is often used by the party’s opponents, to remind people of allegedly unsympathetic, harsh and uncaring rightwing governments.

Glossary of UK Government and Politics . 2013.

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