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Throughout history when Conservative leaders have sounded almost sensible on the surface – and different periods where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet remained popular by party loyalists. This is not that situation. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, while she threw out the red meat of migrant-baiting she believed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. In practice, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, animated, but ultimately a goodbye.

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Certain members are taking another squiz at a particular MP, who was a hard “no” at the outset – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has left. Some are fostering a excitement around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the 2024 intake, who presents as a countryside-based politician while filling her social media with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the figurehead to challenge the rival party, now surpassing the Tories by a substantial lead? Does a term exist for overcoming competitors by adopting their policies? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could adopt a term from martial arts?

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One need not look at the US to grasp this point, nor read the scholar's groundbreaking study, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is emphasizing it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier preventing the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been keeping the affluent and connected over generations, at the expense of everyone else, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to halt efforts to reduce support out of public assistance.

However, his study isn’t a hunch, it’s an thorough historical examination into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the UK Tories in that historical context). Once centrist parties becomes uncertain, if it commences to adopt the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it cedes the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to an influential advisor was a notable instance – but radical alignment has become so evident now as to obliterate any other Conservative messages. Where are the traditional Tories, who treasure predictability, preservation, governing principles, the national prestige on the global scene?

Where did they go the modernisers, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding any of them as well, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been erased, superseded by relentless demonisation: of immigrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and demonstrators.

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And talk about issues they reject. They characterize protests by older demonstrators as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – British flags, English symbols, any item featuring a vibrant national tones – as an clear provocation to anyone who doesn’t think that complete national identity is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with core principles, their own hinterland, their own plan. Each incentive Nigel Farage throws for them, they follow. So, no, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are pulling democratic norms into the abyss.