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On various occasions when Conservative leaders have sounded moderately rational on the surface – and different periods where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet were still adored by party loyalists. This is not such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch didn't energize the audience when she spoke at her conference, despite she presented the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all arisen with a revived feeling of humanity; rather they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. It was, a substitute. Tories hate that. An influential party member was said to label it a “themed procession”: noisy, energetic, but still a goodbye.

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A faction is giving another squiz at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has left. Others are creating a buzz around Katie Lam, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who appears as a countryside-based politician while wallpapering her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the figurehead to beat back the rival party, now surpassing the incumbents by a significant margin? Can we describe for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? And, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could use an expression from combat sports?

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One need not examine America to know this, or reference a prominent academic's seminal 2017 book, the historical examination: every one of your synapses is screaming it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall resisting the far right.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by appeasing the “elite classes” happy. I’m not wild about it as an fundamental rule. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups for decades, at the cost of other citizens, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to cease desiring to make cuts out of public assistance.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (in parallel to the British Conservatives around the early 1900s). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, if it commences to adopt the terminology and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it transfers the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to overshadow all remaining Conservative messages. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who value predictability, preservation, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the world stage?

Where did they go the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? To be clear, I wasn’t wild about both groups either, but it's remarkably noticeable how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of immigrants, religious groups, benefit claimants and activists.

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While discussing what they cannot stand for any more. They portray protests by elderly peace activists as “displays of hostility” and use flags – British flags, English symbols, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to individuals doubting that being British through and through is the best thing a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, where they check back in with fundamental beliefs, their traditional foundations, their original agenda. Each incentive Nigel Farage presents to them, they pursue. Consequently, definitely not, there's no pleasure to see their disintegration. They are dragging civil society along in their decline.