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On various occasions when party chiefs have appeared reasonably coherent superficially – and different periods where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet continued to be cherished by party loyalists. This is not that situation. Kemi Badenoch failed to inspire attendees when she spoke at her conference, while she offered the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; rather they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. In practice, fake vegan meat. Conservatives despise that. One senior Conservative reportedly described it as a “themed procession”: loud, animated, but nonetheless a parting.

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Some are having a fresh look at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but as things conclude, and other candidates has left. Some are fostering a buzz around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the latest cohort, who appears as a Shires Tory while wallpapering her socials with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the figurehead to counter Reform, now outpolling the Tories by a significant margin? Is there a word for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? Furthermore, if there isn’t, perhaps we might use an expression from combat sports?

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One need not look at the US to understand this, or reference Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall preventing the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by appeasing the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an organising principle. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups for ages, at the cost of other citizens, and they never seem quite happy enough to stop wanting to take a bite out of social welfare.

However, his study is not speculation, it’s an thorough historical examination into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (along with the UK Tories around the early 1900s). Once centrist parties becomes uncertain, if it commences to pursue the terminology and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it transfers the direction.

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The former Prime Minister associating with a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who prize stability, preservation, legal frameworks, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

Why have we lost the reformers, who defined the United Kingdom in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support both groups too, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, in favour of relentless demonisation: of newcomers, Islamic communities, social support users and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They describe rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and display banners – national emblems, patriotic icons, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a person could possibly be.

We observe an absence of any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with their own values, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Each incentive Nigel Farage presents to them, they’ll chase. Consequently, absolutely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are dragging social cohesion into the abyss.