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Throughout history when party chiefs have appeared moderately rational superficially – and other moments where they have sounded animal crackers, yet were still adored by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from either of those times. Kemi Badenoch failed to inspire attendees when she addressed her conference, even as she threw out the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a renewed sense of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. In practice, a substitute. Tories hate that. An influential party member reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: noisy, vigorous, but nonetheless a parting.

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Certain members are taking a fresh look at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has left. Another group is generating a excitement around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who presents as a countryside-based politician while wallpapering her social media with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the standard-bearer to counter opposition forces, now outpolling the incumbents by a substantial lead? Is there a word for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? And, should one not exist, surely we could borrow one from fighting disciplines?

When Finding Satisfaction In These Developments, in a How-the-Mighty-Are-Fallen Way, in a Just-Deserts Way, It's Comprehensible – However Absolutely Bananas

It isn't necessary to consider overseas examples to know this, or consult a prominent academic's groundbreaking study, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier preventing the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups over generations, at the cost of other citizens, and they never seem adequately satisfied to halt efforts to take a bite out of public assistance.

However, his study isn’t a hunch, it’s an thorough historical examination into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the UK Tories circa 1906). Once centrist parties becomes uncertain, if it commences to adopt the rhetoric and superficial stances of the extremist elements, it cedes the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson associating with Steve Bannon was a notable instance – but far-right flirtation has become so obvious now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who prize stability, preservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the world stage?

Where did they go the progressives, who described the country in terms of economic engines, not powder kegs? To be clear, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but it's remarkably noticeable how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been eliminated, superseded by constant vilification: of newcomers, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They characterize protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – union flags, patriotic icons, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that complete national identity is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

There doesn’t seem to be any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with their own values, their historical context, their original agenda. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage offers them, they’ll chase. Consequently, absolutely not, it’s not fun to observe their collapse. They are dragging democratic norms along in their decline.