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On various occasions when party chiefs have appeared reasonably coherent superficially – and alternate phases where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet remained popular by their base. This is not that situation. A leading Tory didn't energize the audience when she spoke at her conference, while she offered the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a fresh awareness of humanity; instead they didn’t believe she’d ever be in a position to implement it. Effectively, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, energetic, but ultimately a farewell.

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Some are having a fresh look at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the start of the night – but as things conclude, and everyone else has withdrawn. Others are creating a interest around Katie Lam, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who presents as a Shires Tory while wallpapering her social media with border-control messaging.

Could she be the leader to beat back the rival party, now outpolling the Tories by a significant margin? Does a term exist for beating your rivals by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, if there isn’t, perhaps we might adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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One need not look at the US to know this, or consult a prominent academic's groundbreaking study, the historical examination: every one of your synapses is emphasizing it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that democracies survive by satisfying the “propertied and powerful” happy. I’m not wild about it as an organising principle. It feels as though we’ve been catering to the propertied and powerful for ages, at the detriment of other citizens, and they never seem adequately satisfied to cease desiring to reduce support out of social welfare.

However, his study goes beyond conjecture, it’s an comprehensive document review into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the British Conservatives circa 1906). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, if it commences to adopt the terminology and superficial stances of the radical wing, it transfers the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson aligning with an influential advisor was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to overshadow all remaining party narratives. What happened to the traditional Tories, who prize predictability, tradition, governing principles, the national prestige on the international platform?

What happened to the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of powerhouses, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I didn't particularly support both groups either, but it's remarkably noticeable how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, superseded by relentless demonisation: of immigrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize demonstrations by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, all objects bearing a bold patriotic hues – as an clear provocation to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the best thing a person could possibly be.

There doesn’t seem to be any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with their own values, their historical context, their own plan. Any stick the political figure throws for them, they follow. Therefore, absolutely not, it isn't enjoyable to observe their collapse. They are pulling social cohesion into the abyss.