ORIGINS OF TORY: INHERENT BIAS OF THE BRITISH STATE

The formation of the Labour Party in 1888 - a Scottish concept - was initially an attempt by disenfranchised Scots and Irish Scots to win themselves some representation in the British Parliament

This was also the case with the subsequent formation of the Scottish National Party, which was deemed necessary by one of the joint founders of the Labour Party, after they had morphed into a British party, with Celts beginning to believe that yet again, they were no longer a priority to a party hierarchy that decided to base itself in London, England 

The formation of the Conservative and Liberal parties was really a PR exercise by UK establishment oriented parliamentarians to recreate themselves

The terms Tory and Whig were phrases which were intended as a slur by one group of parliamentarians against another

The Tories were obviously the same in name - and arguably outlook - as the current crop operating under that moniker

The Liberals or Whigs back then being the progenitor of today's Liberal Democrats

The terms Tory and Whig are far older than the official names of those parties

The nicknames came first and serve to show the inherent nature of English politicians' superiority complex down through the years, and their absolute disdain for non-English components of the British state

Tory or Torraidh: an Irish word that was used to describe a brigand or outlaw, but another interpretation of the term was used by the deluded religious maniac Oliver Cromwell and his followers to describe those fleeing the horrors he visited upon the people of Ireland 

One group of politicians would use this as a slur against those they disagreed with in Parliament. Originally aimed at those politicians' who supported the Catholic King James II, who exiled to Ireland, but later generalised to infer that one had a connection to Ireland or the Irish or their customs

Whig, a shortened version of the word Whiggamore: was a Scottish word used to describe a group of Covenanters from SW Scotland and was generally used as a response to the Tory slur. Both slurs were bandied about by English politicians in the UK Parliament and used to effectively criticise each other 

Apparently being referred to as a Scot or an Irishman was quite the insult among the gentrified Englishmen who inhabited the English Parliament* back in the day

*Now called the British (or UK) Parliament. In the setting up of the Union, the English permitted the Scots to occupy one tenth of the seats as is occupied by them. This 18th century arrangement still stands as of today