TORIES, TORIES, TORIES

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Norman Smith, the BBC's Anti-Tory Correspondent, discussed Brown and Mandelson's latest attacks on the Tories with John Humphrys at 6.35 this morning. As I've mentioned before, this man hardly ever uses the words 'Conservative' or 'Conservatives'. It's, almost without exception, 'Tory' or 'Tories' with him. Just in this one short spell today, Smith's tally of 'Tory/Tories' was 8, with 'Conservative/Conservatives' on 0. Not even Michael Crick racks up such totals. Only John Prescott and Peter Hain can match Norman Smith in this regard. Tories, Tories, Tories, Tories, Tories...