Alternate birtish political party names

Swedish politics of the 18th century wouldn't exactly be well known in 1890s Britain...
Well, the Swedes did have an ambassador in Britain, I would assume, and he should have made at least some contacts in the parties...
Though I agree that it might be a tad bit obscure- obscure enough that it is entirely plausible that no member of Parliament knew about it, even.
 
Possibly but the trouble is that then begs the question of what the other party is called...

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A thought on royalists: Perhaps they're not opposed to another party which is republican. Perhaps its the opposite- the monarch tries to use his power.
The other parties are against this but there is a party which supports him,
 
It depends very much on the political situation of an alternative Britain, but a number of things could work.

One place to look for alternative party names is Local Government; until the 1940s and even later in many places, Party politics hadn't really taken root in the Councils in the same way as in Parliament. Take the LCC; County Hall was controlled not by Labour, Liberals or Tories but by Progressives (leftish) and Moderates (rightish). The Moderates successfully rebranded themselves as "Municipal Reform" after 1906, by which time the Progressives were often known as the "Progressive Socialists". Confusingly, in Glasgow the "Progressives" were the right-wing grouping...

More broadly, "Commonwealth" is always good, parituclarly for progressives; OTL "Common Wealth" got several MPs in the 40s. On the Leftish theme, we've seen Social Democrats (in the 1880s and 1980s, the former being on the Far Left), Democrats (1880s), the British Soclialist Party (1900s), National Socialist Party (1910s) and so on.

For the countryside, an Agricultural Party was formed in 1931 but it's a phrase that would work perfectly well for OTLs Toryish Squires- they could be oppsed by the Georgite Party or the Land Reform Party. Other 'third forces' that have popped up over the years include the New Party (1931), Centre Party (proposed on a number of occasions from the 1880s onwards), Independent Party (1920), National Party (omnipresent, really), Unionist Party (1887 to the present day or 1986, depending...)

Just a few thoughts, anyhow.
 
Thanks all, some really good ideas...

It depends very much on the political situation of an alternative Britain, but a number of things could work.

Basically the Tories and Whigs split over the Corn Laws, but in a different way...

Peel looses the vote in the Lords and goes to Vicky to pack thge Lords to get the Repeal Act through, but because of a lower majority (2 votes) in the commons and because she doesn't like Peel so a general election is called...

Lord Bentinck and Gladstone take basically everyone but the Peelites and some of the Whigs (radicals and the 'old whigs') to form a new 'conservative' but reforming (the introduce a embryonic 'wealthare state' funded by high traffis) party. While Peel joins the Whigs to form the Liberal Party...

I used the name Liberal-Conservatives... but I really hate the name :(

The Liberal-Conservatives's win the election by promising the 'wealthare state' paid for by "Johny Foreigner" :D and the idea of Free Trade is effectivley killed off for a good while

Just a few thoughts, anyhow.

Thank you very much...
 
Thanks all, some really good ideas...



Basically the Tories and Whigs split over the Corn Laws, but in a different way...

Peel looses the vote in the Lords and goes to Vicky to pack thge Lords to get the Repeal Act through, but because of a lower majority (2 votes) in the commons and because she doesn't like Peel so a general election is called...

Lord Bentinck and Gladstone take basically everyone but the Peelites and some of the Whigs (radicals and the 'old whigs') to form a new 'conservative' but reforming (the introduce a embryonic 'wealthare state' funded by high traffis) party. While Peel joins the Whigs to form the Liberal Party...

I used the name Liberal-Conservatives... but I really hate the name :(

The Liberal-Conservatives's win the election by promising the 'wealthare state' paid for by "Johny Foreigner" :D and the idea of Free Trade is effectivley killed off for a good while



Thank you very much...

At around the time of Australia's federation the main parties (or coalitions) were the Free Traders and the Protectionists.

The Free Traders were actually revenue tariff advocates, as opposed to high Victorian 'classicalists', though they were more conservative (or moderate, it depends which historians you read) than the Protectionists, who tended to be the Radicals of pre-labour movement Australian ideology.

Maybe 'revenue tariff' could be worked into the title of your ATL party. Also, 'tariff reform' can be adopted by any side of the protection debate. Of course these are terribly dry expressions, not particularly sexy--I mean Tory comes to us from Irish banditry!
 
That which we call a rose?

The names were derived from words of abuse. Tories were catholic highwaymen lurking in the bogs of Ireland the name implying that they were crypto jacobites as indeed Bolinbrook was. Whigs were named after the Whiggamore raid in which a gang of Glasweigian Covenanters sacked a village that supported Montrose (Whiggamores were Glasweigians). The Whigs were alledged to be Non Conformists. Liberal and Conservative were terms of abuse. Possibilies are for the Tiories to be called the Church Party as the Church of England was in those days the Tory party in prayer and the Whigs the Chapel Party following John Wesley's breakaway from the Church of England. There were also a few M.Ps who sat as radicals and temporary groups such as the Peelites.

Maybe some names after the American War of Independence with the Tories calling themselves the patriots (ironicals as the rebels in the USA used that title whereas their opponents were called Tories) and the Whigs the Yankees which is probably more likely as it would be a term of abuse whereas the Tories would regards the name Patriot as a complement
 
He said pre-1900, so that's kind of unlikely. It'd be like the US having an Anti-Constitution Party.

I thought that there were certain points in the 19th century where there were explicitly pro-republican political movements. Didn't some of the Chartists lean in that direction.

Perhaps a couple of very corrupt/ineffective/unpopular monarchs in a row, who strongly support explicitly reactionary policies, would be enough to make a Republican movement mainstream. I'm not saying its likely, more of a worst-case scenario with a bad government and a very polarized society.
 
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