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There have been times when Conservative leaders have sounded moderately rational outwardly – and alternate phases where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet continued to be cherished by their party. We are not in such a scenario. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, despite she threw out the red meat of migrant-baiting she thought they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all arisen with a renewed sense of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to follow through. Effectively, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: noisy, animated, but still a goodbye.

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Some are having another squiz at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has left. Others are creating a interest around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the newest members, who appears as a countryside-based politician while wallpapering her social media with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the figurehead to counter Reform, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by becoming exactly like them? Furthermore, if there isn’t, maybe we can use an expression from combat sports?

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You don’t even have to examine America to understand this, or reference Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, the historical examination: your entire mental framework is shouting it. Moderate conservatism is the key defense preventing the far right.

The central argument is that representative governments persist by keeping the “elite classes” happy. Personally, I question this as an guiding tenet. One gets the impression as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups for decades, at the cost of the broader population, and they don't typically become sufficiently content to stop wanting to make cuts out of public assistance.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, 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). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, when it starts to adopt the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the far right, it hands them the direction.

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A key figure aligning with a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but radical alignment has become so obvious now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Where are the traditional Tories, who treasure continuity, preservation, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

Why have we lost the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? To be clear, I wasn’t wild about any of them either, but it's remarkably noticeable how such perspectives – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, replaced by ongoing scapegoating: of newcomers, religious groups, social support users and demonstrators.

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And talk about positions they oppose. They describe rallies by elderly peace activists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, any item featuring a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the best thing a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with core principles, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Any stick the Reform leader presents to them, they’ll chase. So, no, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They’re taking democratic norms into the abyss.