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On various occasions when party chiefs have sounded reasonably coherent on the surface – and different periods where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet were still adored by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from either of those times. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, while she presented the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she believed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all woken up with a renewed sense of humanity; instead they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to follow through. Effectively, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, energetic, but nonetheless a parting.

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Certain members are taking 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 departed. Another group is generating a interest around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the 2024 intake, who presents as a countryside-based politician while saturating her socials with immigration-critical posts.

Could she be the figurehead to counter opposition forces, now outpolling the Tories by a significant margin? Can we describe for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? Moreover, if there isn’t, perhaps we might use an expression from combat sports?

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You don’t even have to examine America to understand this, or consult the scholar's influential work, the historical examination: your entire mental framework is emphasizing it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that representative governments persist by satisfying the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful for decades, at the cost of the broader population, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to halt efforts to make cuts out of disability benefits.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the Weimar-era political organization during the pre-war period (combined with the British Conservatives circa 1906). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, when it starts to adopt the buzzwords and superficial stances of the radical wing, it hands them the control.

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The former Prime Minister associating with an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to overshadow all remaining Tory talking points. What happened to the traditional Tories, who prize predictability, preservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the global scene?

Where did they go the progressives, who portrayed the country in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? To be clear, I had reservations regarding either faction too, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, superseded by relentless demonisation: of migrants, religious groups, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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And talk about issues they reject. They describe protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an clear provocation to those questioning that complete national identity is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with their own values, their historical context, their own plan. Any stick Nigel Farage throws for them, they pursue. So, no, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They are dragging democratic norms along in their decline.