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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have seemed almost sensible on the surface – and different periods where they have come across as animal crackers, yet remained popular by their party. This is not that situation. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, even as she presented the divisive talking points of border-focused rhetoric she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be in a position to follow through. It was, a substitute. Tories hate that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “themed procession”: noisy, vigorous, but still a farewell.

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Some are having another squiz at one contender, who was a hard “no” at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has left. Some are fostering a excitement around Katie Lam, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who looks like a Shires Tory while saturating her social media with border-control messaging.

Could she be the leader to counter Reform, now surpassing the Tories by a substantial lead? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? Moreover, if there isn’t, surely we could adopt a term from combat sports?

Should You Take Pleasure In Any of This, in a Downfall Observation Way, in a Just-Deserts Way, That Is Understandable – Yet Completely Irrational

One need not consider overseas examples to understand this, nor read the scholar's seminal 2017 book, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: every one of your synapses is emphasizing it. Moderate conservatism is the key defense preventing the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that political systems endure by satisfying the “wealthy and influential” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups for ages, at the detriment of the broader population, and they rarely appear quite happy enough to halt efforts to take a bite out of social welfare.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an comprehensive document review into the Weimar-era political organization during the Weimar Republic (along with the UK Tories in that historical context). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, if it commences to pursue the buzzwords and gesture-based policies of the far right, it hands them the control.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but radical alignment has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Conservative messages. What happened to the established party members, who value continuity, conservation, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

Why have we lost the reformers, who described the country in terms of powerhouses, not tension-filled environments? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding either faction either, but it's remarkably noticeable how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the modernizing wing – have been erased, in favour of relentless demonisation: of immigrants, Muslims, social support users and demonstrators.

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While discussing what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize rallies by older demonstrators as “displays of hostility” and use flags – British flags, Saint George’s flags, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to anyone who doesn’t think that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, where they check back in with core principles, their own hinterland, their stated objectives. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage throws for them, they follow. So, definitely not, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They are pulling democratic norms along in their decline.