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	Tory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James II's attacks on the Church of England led some Tories to support the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and during the reigns of William III and Queen Anne they fiercely competed with the Whigs for power, although both monarchs generally tried to employ both Whigs and Tories in ministerial positions.
		Generally, the Tories were associated with lesser gentry and the Church of England (or in Scotland the episcopalian church), while Whigs were more associated with trade, money, larger land holders (or "land magnates"), expansion and tolerance.
		Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, regularly refers to himself as a Tory and has suggested that the new party is a natural evolution of the conservative political movement in Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tory (1274 words)

	Tory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The term Tory derives from the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK (A political party in Great Britain which developed from the Tories in the 1830s; advocates a mixed economy and encourages property owning) Conservative Party.
		A similar usage for Tory exists in (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada to describe the (A political party in Great Britain which developed from the Tories in the 1830s; advocates a mixed economy and encourages property owning) Conservative Party.
		The term Tory was used in the (The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain; 1775-1783) American Revolution to describe those who remained loyal to the British government, or (A person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)) Loyalists.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tory.htm (1017 words)

	Conservative Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom.
		The formal name is a vestige from the 1912 merger with the Liberal Unionist Party, and an echo of the party's defence (1886-1921) of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequent insistence on British sovereignty in Northern Ireland in opposition to Irish nationalist and republican aspirations.
		The party's economic reputation was however dealt a fatal blow by the 1992 Black Wednesday debacle, in which billions of pounds were wasted trying to keep the pound within the European ERM system of exchange rates at an overvalued rate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK) (3229 words)

	The Militant - 4/7/97 -- UK Gov't Announces May 1 Elections Fractures show in Tory party, while Labour Party tops ...
		The Tory Party crisis is an expression of the 100-year decline of British imperialism, which is taking a particularly acute form in the depression conditions of the 1990s.
		The rulers' fears arise out of the nature of the Labour Party, which was formed at the beginning of the century out of the struggle of workers through the trade unions to break from reliance on the Liberals, an open party of the capitalist class.
		This contradiction lies at the heart of the Labour Party to this day and explains why, despite the Labour leadership's record of servility to the rulers, masses of workers continue to push for Labour to be an instrument of struggle for their interests.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/6114/6114_10.html (1716 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| The Tories have had a nervous breakdown
		Subsequently, the Eurosceptics gained control of the party both because they reflected grassroots Tory opinion and because their predictions about the EU proved to be more accurate than those of the Major leadership.
		For the Tories to allow themselves to be morally bullied by the media and New Labour into avoiding the precise issues where the voters think them most competent or trustworthy is simply silly.
		The Tory party's main problem at present is that it has nothing particular to say - or rather that it has nothing general to say.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/10/06/do0601.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2002/10/06/ixopinion.html (1872 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Eurosceptic rebel leaves Tory party
		At the end of last year he said he would stand down at the next election because he disagreed with the party's Europe policy and appealed to Mr Hague at the very least to oppose entry to the euro and to seek to regain control over agriculture and fisheries policy.
		In another embarrassing sign of pre-election disarray, the Tory leader came under strong pressure from the left-leaning Reform group to expel the senior backbencher John Townend over his controversial remarks on immigration.
		It said that it was particularly important that it took action in the light of recent comments by the leadership - an apparent reference to Mr Hague's speech claiming that Britain was in danger of becoming a "foreign land".
	www.guardian.co.uk /Tories/story/0,7369,465442,00.html (569 words)

	Tory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Whigs (initially an insult — whiggamore, a cattle driver) were those who supported the exclusion of James VII and II from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners"), and the Tories (from the Irish term tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí — outlaw, robber) were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
		However many former Progressive Conservatives who opposed the merger take offence to the new party using the term, as do some members of the former Reform/Alliance wing who do not wish to be associated with the "Tory" governments of Canada's past, or the values of traditional Toryist thought.
		The term Tory was used in the American Revolution to describe those who remained loyal to the British government, or Loyalists.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tory.htm (1310 words)

	IW236: June 28, 1997: Where now for the Tory party?
		The election of William Hague as leader of the Tory party confirm that it is being refashioned as an extreme right, anti-European and nationalist party in the aftermath of its General Election debacle.
		Instead the Tories are setting out to counteract New Labour's stealing of their clothes by outflanking them on the right - in advocating austerity measures and the destruction of welfare at home, coupled with an escalating drive towards all-out trade war against Britain's European rivals.
		Kenneth Clarke, the only pro-European leadership candidate, who insisted that the party must recapture the "centre-ground" of politics if it was ever to be elected, was the favourite to win at some stages of this bitter contest and the most popular with the majority of the party.
	www.socialequality.org.uk /iw/236/2a236.htm (952 words)

	Can anyone save the Tory party? - [Sunday Herald]
		Sources among senior Labour Party ranks, while revelling in the chaos surrounding IDS and the inquiry by the parliamentary standards commissioner (who is looking at the financial arrangements the Tory leader used to employ his wife), are also concerned that their “guarantee” of a third general election landslide, namely IDS, might disappear.
		Tory MEP Edward Macmillan-Scott told the BBC last week that the mood in Westminster made it likely that “something is going to happen at some point”.
		Bad for the party or not, it appears that those lining up to wield the axe – whether in the shadows or not – are not about to go away.
	www.sundayherald.com /37525 (1696 words)

	Epitaph for the Tory Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The continued existence of the Tory Party as a bogeyman with which to frighten dissenters is one of the few things that holds together the equally bankrupt Labour Party.
		Because, simply, Tories on the way up have tended, almost exclusively, to be interested in self-promotion in their chosen profession rather than in ideas or principles, let alone in public duty.
		A Party is supposed to contest elections and win power in order to put itself in a position to carry out a programme that is fundamentally different from that of the party presently in office - an aim that presumes that the present programme is utterly wrong.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=1071 (3173 words)

	Scotsman.com Election - Scottish Conservative Party - MP urges sacking of Tory Party chief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Derek Conway told party leader Iain Duncan Smith the appointment of Mr Legg to the post had been "an error of judgement".
		It added that in 1994 he was accused of involvement in the Westminster Council gerrymandering scandal, when council houses were unlawfully sold to increase the number of Tory voters in marginal wards, though he was not surcharged like his colleague Dame Shirley Porter.
		The programme also noted that as company secretary of a major food firm he was party to a decision to remove an £18m surplus from a pension fund.
	election.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?id=518862003&tid=812 (447 words)

	Peel and the Tory party: 1829 - 1841.
		Peel and the Tory party: 1829 - 1841.
		The situation was perfect for Peel, as he could concentrate on his party and his supporters while the Whigs were tearing themselves and their support apart, exemplified by Lord Graham and Lord Stanley's departure from Melbourne's government.
		By the time his "Hundred Days" term was over, there were 290 Tory MPs in parliament, renewing his influence in the counties and making the Tory party the largest single party in the Commons.
	www.coursework.info /i/64782.html (451 words)

	The Strange Death of Tory England By Anne Applebaum
		Strolling through the nearby village, a former Tory member of Parliament laughed and kept his head down while passing the local Tory Party office—hoping, he said, not to be recognized.
		Although the number of Tory and Labor members of Parliament will remain more or less the same (click here, here, or here for precise results), the general outlook for the Conservative Party is worse than it seems.
		Some have also suggested that the Tories' choice of parliamentary candidates, which has over the past decade deliberately tilted toward self-made men and women and away from the country gents who manned the party's backbenches in the past, has actually destroyed whatever links between the Tory Party and the countryside still remained.
	www.slate.com /id/109898 (1100 words)

	Tory Party
		Serving a long tenure in power during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars, the younger Pitt negotiated three European coalitions against France with little success on land, but oversaw the foundation of British naval supremacy after the Battle of Trafalgar.
		It was the party of the squire and parson, as opposed to the Whigs (which was supported by the trading classes and Nonconformists).
		In the USA a Tory was an opponent of the break with Britain in the American Revolution 1775–83.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0013252.html (193 words)

	ipedia.com: Conservative Party (UK) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was formerly called the Tory Party, and its members are still commonly referred to as Tories.
		Thatcher became extremely unpopular among the electorate but due to the Falklands War, the perceived "loony left" nature of the Labour Party, and the intervention of the centrist SDP-Liberal Alliance won the 1983 general election with a landslide, gaining a majority of 144.
		As predicted, the general election was a win for the Labour Party, but perhaps the magnitude of the victory surprised everyone.
	www.ipedia.com /conservative_party__uk_.html (2785 words)

	The Tory Party and Welfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Tory Party and Welfare Robert Henderson The Daily Telegraph published (1 June) the results of a YouGov poll using Tory Party members.
		If Tory Party members feel this way, you can bet your life on the general public being even more heavily in favour maintaining public provision.
		The lesson for the Tory Party to learn is simple: if they wish to be elected again in the foreseeable future they must not only drop their Thatcherite rhetoric; they must sincerely embrace necessary public provision.
	talkaboutgovernment.com /group/alt.politics.british/messages/991737.html (986 words)

	The Scotsman - Politics - Clarke's last bid to lead the Tory party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prominent Tories will be well aware that Labour and Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, would do anything to re-open the splits in the Opposition over the single currency if Mr Clarke was to win the leadership.
		This preoccupation has raised concern in Tory Central Office, where Dr Vanessa Gearson, its deputy director, noted in a leaked e-mail that his habit was damaging the party.
		In protest, the donor posted a tea bag to Tory Central Office with a note saying that would be the last donation it would receive from him until the party elected a new leader.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=1173252003 (808 words)

	If you care about the Tory Party, vote UKIP \| Samizdata.net
		The Tory party have been in opposition for so many years and Labour are the current threat.
		I find it pathetic when any party tries to con the public into voting for them by telling them that a vote for party B is really helping Party A. Every person should look at every party and vote for the one that sounds closest to their own particular views.
		I will be voting for the UKIP as they are the only party who want out of the EU as do I and they also hit a lot of right notes with their shrinking of government and freedom values.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/006155.html (3700 words)

	The Hindu : Tussle for Tory party leadership intensifies
		In less than a week, the talk of ``unity'', heard on the morning of the party's election defeat, has evaporated and the much- trumpeted Left coalition intended to be formed by Mr.
		Reports suggest widespread ``homophobia'' in Tory rank- and-file with some grassroots activists, interviewed on BBC, even sounding wary of the fact that he is not a ``family man'' - that he doesn't have children.
		As the field widens, the political temperature in the party is expected to rise, and as had been predicted, this election promises to be far more exciting than the one Britain has just been through.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/15/stories/0315000t.htm (621 words)

	CBC News:Orchard turns to courts to save Tory party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The twice-failed leadership contender and a group of Conservative party members are asking the Ontario Superior Court to rule that leader Peter MacKay violated the party's constitution with the merger plan.
		In a news conference on Friday at a Toronto law office, Orchard said the deal agreed to by MacKay and Alliance Leader Stephen Harper was a betrayal of the Tory party, and a recipe for disaster.
		MacKay won the party leadership last spring having identified himself during the campaign as a candidate who didn't plan to merge with the other small-c conservative party.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/11/21/orchard_mackay0311210 (395 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Muslim Tory MEP slams 'racist' party
		The Tory party's only elected Muslim politician has launched an outspoken attack on his own party, accusing a number of his fellow politicians and senior party figures of racism.
		Only two weekends ago, Tory leader Michael Howard gave his support to Khanbhai, who also maintains that the European Parliament authorities had judged him 'not to be in breach of any rule of the parliament'.
		However, a campaign by some Tory party associations in the East Anglian region to axe Khanbhai won support from some figures within Central Office whom Khanbai claims were determined to kick him out.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /elections2004/story/0,14549,1222828,00.html (757 words)

	Why is 'Tory' in this headline
		After all, that term was used to describe members of the old Progressive Conservative party, one half of the new amalgam that is the Conservative Party of Canada.
		Now, some of those same people are coming to embrace the Tory moniker, not with any particular enthusiasm but because they are hearing the term being used by others, especially the press.
		The "Tories" were the ones who favoured continuing tradition in the royal succession.
	www.daifallah.com /tory.htm (913 words)

	How does the Tory Party survive? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I mean, this is the party that is always prepared to unite with their other political class buddies when it comes to voting for MP's pensions, silencing those who are politically incorrect and defending our liberal capitalist system.
		Now I'll be honest, I have never been the Tories biggest fan, but I can see why people voted for Thatcher (not least to save our green and pleasant land from communism), and they had purpose and direction, offering something which at the time promised to transform soceity, and their foreign policy was genuinely patriotic.
		The Tory party survives because it is the last refuge of the scoundrel
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=160711 (1788 words)

	Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for The Tory Party - The Churchill Centre
		Churchill's opposition to his party over India and (pre-1933) rearmament, Stewart maintains, was not the reason for his exclusion from office, as some historians believe who confuse cause with effect.
		The remarkable decision of Churchill and his fellow diehards to confront the government head-on over India is read by Stewart as a virtual declaration of a Tory civil war, in which the "Winstonians" relentlessly attacked.
		Hence his characterization of the Tory Party struggle as a "civil war"; hence the analogies implied in depicting Churchill, his friends and other anti-appeasers, as well as Lloyd George as "assassins in the senate" who then bury the "last Caesar" of inter-war politics, Chamberlain.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=725 (623 words)

	BNP and LibDems to join forces to decapitate Tory party? - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Tory party campaigning honestly, credibly, passionately and believably on asylum seekers (with the support of the 80% of Britons who are sick fed up of these parasites) would be unstoppable in an election.
		The Tories could be considered more guilty than the Liberal and Labour Parties simply because they know the truth about race but do nothing about it.
		This is the party that sacked Enoch Powell.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=92812 (1172 words)

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