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On various occasions when party chiefs have sounded almost sensible superficially – and different periods where they have sounded animal crackers, yet remained popular by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she presented to her conference, even as she offered the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she thought they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they didn’t believe she’d ever be able to deliver it. Effectively, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. An influential party member was said to label it a “themed procession”: boisterous, energetic, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Some are having another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the beginning – but as things conclude, and other candidates has departed. Some are fostering a excitement around a rising star, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who looks like a Shires Tory while wallpapering her socials with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the leader to counter Reform, now outpolling the Tories by a substantial lead? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, should one not exist, surely we could borrow one from fighting disciplines?

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One need not look at the US to know this, or consult the scholar's groundbreaking study, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall preventing the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by appeasing the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful for ages, at the cost of other citizens, and they never seem quite happy enough to halt efforts to take a bite out of social welfare.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (combined with the British Conservatives around the early 1900s). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, as it begins to chase the terminology and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it hands them the control.

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The former Prime Minister aligning with a controversial strategist was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to overshadow all remaining Conservative messages. What happened to the established party members, who value stability, conservation, legal frameworks, the national prestige on the global scene?

Where did they go the reformers, who described the country in terms of economic engines, not volatile situations? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support any of them as well, but the contrast is dramatic how such perspectives – the inclusive conservative, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, superseded by relentless demonisation: of newcomers, religious groups, social support users and protesters.

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And talk about issues they reject. They characterize demonstrations by elderly peace activists as “festivals of animosity” and use flags – union flags, patriotic icons, any item featuring a bold patriotic hues – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that being British through and through is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.

There doesn’t seem to be any inherent moderation, encouraging reassessment with fundamental beliefs, their own hinterland, their own plan. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage presents to them, they pursue. Consequently, definitely not, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They are pulling democratic norms down with them.