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There have been times when Tory figureheads have appeared almost sensible superficially – and other moments where they have sounded animal crackers, yet remained popular by their base. This is not that situation. Kemi Badenoch didn't energize the audience when she presented to her conference, even as she threw out the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be able to deliver it. Effectively, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “jazz funeral”: noisy, vigorous, but nonetheless a farewell.

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A faction is giving another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but as things conclude, and everyone else has withdrawn. Some are fostering a buzz around a rising star, a 34-year-old MP of the latest cohort, who appears as a traditional Conservative while saturating her socials with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the leader to beat back the rival party, now surpassing the Conservatives by a substantial lead? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by becoming exactly like them? And, if there isn’t, surely we could borrow one from combat sports?

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It isn't necessary to look at the US to understand this, or reference the scholar's influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: your entire mental framework is emphasizing it. Centrist right-wing parties is the essential firewall against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by satisfying the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the affluent and connected for ages, at the cost of the broader population, and they don't typically become sufficiently content to cease desiring to take a bite out of public assistance.

But his analysis is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (along with the UK Tories in that historical context). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it cedes the direction.

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A key figure aligning with a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but radical alignment has become so evident now as to eliminate competing Tory talking points. Where are the traditional Tories, who prize continuity, preservation, legal frameworks, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

Where did they go the progressives, who portrayed the nation in terms of economic engines, not powder kegs? To be clear, I didn't particularly support either faction either, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been erased, in favour of relentless demonisation: of migrants, Muslims, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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While discussing issues they reject. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – union flags, Saint George’s flags, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an clear provocation to anyone who doesn’t think that complete national identity is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

We observe an absence of any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with fundamental beliefs, their own hinterland, their own plan. Any stick Nigel Farage presents to them, they follow. Therefore, absolutely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They’re taking social cohesion down with them.