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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have seemed moderately rational on the surface – and different periods where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet remained popular by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, despite she threw out the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a fresh awareness of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to follow through. In practice, a substitute. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “themed procession”: noisy, energetic, but still a parting.

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A faction is giving a fresh look at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the beginning – but as things conclude, and rivals has departed. Another group is generating a buzz around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the newest members, who appears as a traditional Conservative while wallpapering her socials with border-control messaging.

Could she be the figurehead to challenge Reform, now surpassing the Tories by 20 points? Can we describe for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could borrow one from combat sports?

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It isn't necessary to look at the US to know this, nor read the scholar's groundbreaking study, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is shouting it. Centrist right-wing parties is the crucial barrier against the extremist factions.

The central argument is that democracies survive by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. I’m not wild about it as an guiding tenet. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups for ages, at the expense of the broader population, and they don't typically become sufficiently content to stop wanting to reduce support 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 pre-war period (in parallel to the UK Tories around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, as it begins to adopt the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it hands them the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson associating with Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to obliterate any other party narratives. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who treasure predictability, conservation, legal frameworks, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

Where did they go the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of economic engines, not powder kegs? To be clear, I had reservations regarding either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, superseded by relentless demonisation: of migrants, Muslims, social support users and protesters.

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While discussing positions they oppose. They describe rallies by older demonstrators as “festivals of animosity” and display banners – union flags, Saint George’s flags, all objects bearing a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the best thing a individual might attain.

We observe an absence of any natural braking system, encouraging reassessment with their own values, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Any stick the political figure offers them, they’ll chase. Therefore, no, it’s not fun to watch them implode. They are pulling civil society down with them.