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Throughout history when party chiefs have sounded moderately rational on the surface – and other moments where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet continued to be cherished by party loyalists. This is not such a scenario. A leading Tory didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, while she offered the divisive talking points of border-focused rhetoric she thought they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all arisen with a fresh awareness of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be able to deliver it. In practice, an imitation. Tories hate that. One senior Conservative reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: boisterous, energetic, but still a goodbye.

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Some are having renewed consideration at a particular MP, who was a hard “no” at the outset – but as things conclude, and everyone else has departed. Some are fostering a interest around a newer MP, a 34-year-old MP of the latest cohort, who presents as a traditional Conservative while saturating her socials with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the figurehead to beat back opposition forces, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Can we describe for beating your rivals by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, if there isn’t, perhaps we might adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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One need not look at the US to know this, or consult the scholar's groundbreaking study, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall preventing the extremist factions.

The central argument is that political systems endure by appeasing the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been catering to the affluent and connected over generations, at the detriment of other citizens, and they don't typically become quite happy enough to cease desiring to reduce support out of disability benefits.

However, his study isn’t a hunch, it’s an comprehensive document review into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the England's ruling party around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, as it begins to chase the buzzwords and superficial stances of the radical wing, it transfers the control.

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Boris Johnson cosying up to a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to eliminate competing party narratives. Where are the old-school Conservatives, who treasure predictability, preservation, governing principles, the national prestige on the international platform?

Where did they go the reformers, who described the country in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support both groups either, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, replaced by ongoing scapegoating: of newcomers, religious groups, welfare recipients and protesters.

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And talk about positions they oppose. They characterize demonstrations by older demonstrators as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to individuals doubting that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a person could possibly be.

There doesn’t seem to be any natural braking system, encouraging reassessment with core principles, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Whatever provocation the political figure throws for them, they’ll chase. Therefore, absolutely not, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They’re taking democratic norms along in their decline.