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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have sounded reasonably coherent outwardly – and other moments where they have sounded animal crackers, yet continued to be cherished by party loyalists. We are not in that situation. One prominent Conservative failed to inspire attendees when she spoke at her conference, despite she offered the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. It was, a substitute. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory apparently called it a “jazz funeral”: loud, animated, but still a goodbye.

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Certain members are taking renewed consideration at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and rivals has left. Some are fostering a excitement around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the 2024 intake, who looks like a Shires Tory while filling her social media with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the figurehead to challenge opposition forces, now surpassing the Tories by 20 points? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? And, assuming no phrase fits, maybe we can borrow one from martial arts?

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It isn't necessary to examine America to understand this, nor read the scholar's seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the essential firewall preventing the far right.

His research conclusion is that political systems endure by satisfying the “elite classes” happy. I have reservations as an guiding tenet. It seems as though we’ve been catering to the propertied and powerful for ages, at the expense of everyone else, and they never seem adequately satisfied to cease desiring to take a bite out of social welfare.

But his analysis isn’t a hunch, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the UK Tories around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right loses its confidence, if it commences to pursue the buzzwords and superficial stances of the extremist elements, it cedes the steering wheel.

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A key figure associating with an influential advisor was a clear case – but far-right flirtation has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Where are the traditional Tories, who treasure predictability, preservation, governing principles, the UK reputation on the international platform?

What happened to the progressives, who described the country in terms of economic engines, not powder kegs? Let me emphasize, I wasn’t wild about either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, in favour of constant vilification: of migrants, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

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While discussing issues they reject. They describe protests by older demonstrators as “carnivals of hatred” and use flags – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an open challenge to those questioning that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, where they check back in with their own values, their historical context, their stated objectives. Each incentive the political figure offers them, they pursue. Therefore, no, it isn't enjoyable to watch them implode. They’re taking social cohesion along in their decline.