That Corbyn fella...

but there's has been alot of "tory scum" type jibing from the hard left at the more centrist elements of the labour party.

I think the way to win back tory voters is

Just my 2p, but as the Tories changed their name to the Conservatives along time ago using the description "Tory" generally has connotations of being part of the reactionary, old fashioned neocon, end of the party scale rather than part of the Liberal Conservative end. This is generally viewed as a negative.

That is why when thingy-bob used the word Tory, you interpreted as inferring Tory Scum. It's a negative phrase, so you infer the point in a negative light. Pretty much the same as the negative connotations that go along with the word socialist.