El origen de la palabra “tory” no es precisamente benevolente con el partido conservador. Se cree que proviene del término irlandés “toraidhe”, que significa bandido, ladrón de ganado, forajido. Y así es como llamaban los liberales (republicanos) a los partidarios de Jaime II, Duque de York hermano de Carlos II, rey de Inglaterra en el siglo XVII.
#2 Ah claro!!! A vosotros os echan por escándalos sexuales.
Infidelidades, sexo con menores, etc.
Menuda tontería acabas de soltar. Como si solo
los políticos españoles tuvieran problemas de corrupción.
Los oponentes originarios de los tories (hace ya unos tiempos) tampoco tenían un mote muy deseable:
Whig
British political party, 1657, in part perhaps a disparaging use of whigg "a country bumpkin" (c.1645); but mainly a shortened form of Whiggamore (1649) "one of the adherents of the Presbyterian cause in western Scotland who marched on Edinburgh in 1648 to oppose Charles I." Perhaps originally "a horse drover," from dialectal verb whig "to urge forward" + mare. The name was first used 1689 in reference to members of the British political party that opposed the Tories. American Revolution sense of "colonist who opposes Crown policies" is from 1768. Later it was applied to opponents of Andrew Jackson (as early as 1825), and taken as the name of a political party (1834) that merged into the Republican Party in 1854-56. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=whig
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Después de leer el titular, mi pregunta sería ¿Por qué no se les llaman "tories" a todos los demás, sin excepción?
#1 Pues porque no todos somos como los políticos espanoles. No todos tenemos vuestra cultura.
#2 Ah claro!!! A vosotros os echan por escándalos sexuales.
Infidelidades, sexo con menores, etc.
Menuda tontería acabas de soltar. Como si solo
los políticos españoles tuvieran problemas de corrupción.
Los oponentes originarios de los tories (hace ya unos tiempos) tampoco tenían un mote muy deseable:
Whig
British political party, 1657, in part perhaps a disparaging use of whigg "a country bumpkin" (c.1645); but mainly a shortened form of Whiggamore (1649) "one of the adherents of the Presbyterian cause in western Scotland who marched on Edinburgh in 1648 to oppose Charles I." Perhaps originally "a horse drover," from dialectal verb whig "to urge forward" + mare. The name was first used 1689 in reference to members of the British political party that opposed the Tories. American Revolution sense of "colonist who opposes Crown policies" is from 1768. Later it was applied to opponents of Andrew Jackson (as early as 1825), and taken as the name of a political party (1834) that merged into the Republican Party in 1854-56.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=whig
(country bumpkin = "palurdo" o "paleto")
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