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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have seemed moderately rational superficially – and alternate phases where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their party. We are not in such a scenario. One prominent Conservative failed to inspire attendees when she addressed her conference, even as she threw out the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she thought they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a renewed sense of humanity; instead they lacked faith she’d ever be able to follow through. Effectively, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. An influential party member was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: loud, animated, but still a parting.

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Some are having renewed consideration at one contender, who was a firm rejection at the outset – but now it’s the end, and rivals has withdrawn. Another group is generating a interest around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who appears as a traditional Conservative while saturating her online profiles with border-control messaging.

Might she become the leader to challenge the rival party, now leading the Conservatives by 20 points? Is there a word for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? Moreover, should one not exist, surely we could adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to understand this, or reference a prominent academic's seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall preventing the far right.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups over generations, at the expense of everyone else, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to cease desiring to take a bite out of disability benefits.

However, his study is not speculation, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (along with the UK Tories circa 1906). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, when it starts to adopt the terminology and gesture-based policies of the extremist elements, it cedes the steering wheel.

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A key figure aligning with Steve Bannon was a notable instance – but far-right flirtation has become so evident now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Where are the established party members, who value continuity, preservation, governing principles, the UK reputation on the global scene?

Where did they go the reformers, who portrayed the country in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support both groups too, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the inclusive conservative, the reformist element – have been eliminated, superseded by constant vilification: of immigrants, Muslims, social support users and demonstrators.

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While discussing positions they oppose. They portray protests by elderly peace activists as “carnivals of hatred” and use flags – British flags, Saint George’s flags, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to anyone who doesn’t think that complete national identity is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.

We observe an absence of any inherent moderation, where they check back in with their own values, their traditional foundations, their own plan. Any stick Nigel Farage presents to them, they pursue. So, definitely not, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They are pulling civil society down with them.