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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have sounded almost sensible on the surface – and other moments where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet remained popular by their base. This is not such a scenario. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, even as she threw out the divisive talking points of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to implement it. In practice, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. An influential party member apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, animated, but still a farewell.

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Some are having another squiz at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has left. Some are fostering a excitement around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who presents as a countryside-based politician while saturating her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the figurehead to beat back opposition forces, now surpassing the Conservatives by a significant margin? Is there a word for beating your rivals by mirroring their stance? And, should one not exist, maybe we can adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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One need not consider overseas examples to grasp this point, or consult the scholar's seminal 2017 book, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: your entire mental framework is emphasizing it. Moderate conservatism is the crucial barrier against the far right.

The central argument is that political systems endure by appeasing the “elite classes” happy. I have reservations as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful for ages, at the detriment of everyone else, and they never seem quite happy enough to stop wanting to take a bite out of social welfare.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an thorough historical examination into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the England's ruling party around the early 1900s). Once centrist parties becomes uncertain, as it begins to pursue the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the extremist elements, it transfers the direction.

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The former Prime Minister aligning with an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to eliminate competing party narratives. What happened to the established party members, who prize predictability, preservation, the constitution, the UK reputation on the world stage?

What happened to the progressives, who defined the country in terms of economic engines, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about any of them too, but it’s absolutely striking how such perspectives – the inclusive conservative, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, replaced by ongoing scapegoating: of immigrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They characterize protests by older demonstrators as “festivals of animosity” and use flags – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, that prompts reflection with core principles, their historical context, their stated objectives. Each incentive the Reform leader throws for them, they’ll chase. Consequently, no, there's no pleasure to see their disintegration. They’re taking social cohesion along in their decline.