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Throughout history when Conservative leaders have appeared reasonably coherent superficially – and other moments where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their party. Currently, it's far from that situation. One prominent Conservative failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, despite she offered the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. Effectively, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “jazz funeral”: noisy, vigorous, but still a goodbye.

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Some are having renewed consideration at one contender, who was a hard “no” at the outset – but now it’s the end, and rivals has withdrawn. Some are fostering a buzz around a rising star, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who presents as a Shires Tory while wallpapering her socials with immigration-critical posts.

Could she be the leader to challenge opposition forces, now surpassing the Conservatives by a substantial lead? Is there a word for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, maybe we can use an expression from martial arts?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to grasp this point, nor read a prominent academic's seminal 2017 book, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is emphasizing it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall resisting the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups for ages, at the cost of everyone else, and they rarely appear quite happy enough to halt efforts to reduce support out of public assistance.

Yet his research is not speculation, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the British Conservatives circa 1906). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, if it commences to adopt the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it hands them the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson aligning with a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Where are the established party members, who prize predictability, tradition, the constitution, the UK reputation on the international platform?

Why have we lost the progressives, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support either faction either, but it's remarkably noticeable how these ideologies – the broad-church approach, the reformist element – have been eliminated, in favour of relentless demonisation: of immigrants, religious groups, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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And talk about issues they reject. They portray protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and display banners – union flags, Saint George’s flags, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

We observe an absence of any inherent moderation, where they check back in with core principles, their traditional foundations, their own plan. Each incentive the Reform leader offers them, they pursue. Therefore, no, it isn't enjoyable to watch them implode. They’re taking civil society into the abyss.