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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have seemed almost sensible superficially – and different periods where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet continued to be cherished by their base. This is not that situation. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, despite she presented 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; rather they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. In practice, an imitation. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative reportedly described it as a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, energetic, but nonetheless a goodbye.

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Certain members are taking another squiz at a particular MP, who was a hard “no” at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has left. Others are creating a excitement around a newer MP, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who presents as a traditional Conservative while saturating her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the figurehead to beat back Reform, now leading the Tories by a substantial lead? Does a term exist for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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You don’t even have to examine America to know this, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s groundbreaking study, the historical examination: your entire mental framework is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the essential firewall preventing the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by appeasing the “elite classes” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the affluent and connected for ages, at the detriment of the broader population, and they rarely appear quite happy enough to cease desiring to reduce support out of disability benefits.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (combined with the UK Tories circa 1906). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, as it begins to chase the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it hands them the direction.

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A key figure cosying up to Steve Bannon was one particularly egregious example – but radical alignment has become so obvious now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who prize stability, tradition, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the international platform?

Where did they go the progressives, who defined the nation in terms of powerhouses, not powder kegs? To be clear, I had reservations regarding either faction either, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been marginalized, replaced by ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, Islamic communities, social support users and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They portray rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and display banners – union flags, English symbols, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to anyone who doesn’t think 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 their own values, their own hinterland, their stated objectives. Whatever provocation the political figure offers them, they pursue. Therefore, absolutely not, it’s not fun to watch them implode. They are dragging democratic norms into the abyss.