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[โ€“] TIN@feddit.uk 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In the UK we still use Tories as a nickname for the conservative party, one of the two main parties in our political system and a kind of pound store republican party. They do indeed still feign royalism when it suits their purposes, some things never change.

[โ€“] HawlSera@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

As an American, I always assumed Tories was the actual name of the Conservative Party, not their nickname.... learn something new every day