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There have been times when Conservative leaders have appeared almost sensible on the surface – and different periods where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet continued to be cherished by their party. We are not in that situation. A leading Tory didn't energize the audience when she spoke at her conference, despite she offered the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed 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 follow through. Effectively, an imitation. Tories hate that. An influential party member reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: loud, energetic, but still a goodbye.

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A faction is giving renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has withdrawn. Others are creating a buzz around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who presents as a countryside-based politician while filling her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the leader to beat back Reform, now leading the Tories by a significant margin? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by adopting their policies? And, should one not exist, maybe we can adopt a term from combat sports?

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You don’t even have to examine America to know this, nor read a prominent academic's groundbreaking study, the historical examination: your entire mental framework is shouting it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier preventing the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by appeasing the “elite classes” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been keeping the affluent and connected for decades, at the cost of everyone else, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to stop wanting to take a bite out of social welfare.

But his analysis is not speculation, it’s an archival deep dive into the Weimar-era political organization during the pre-war period (in parallel to the England's ruling party circa 1906). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, as it begins to chase the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the radical wing, it hands them the steering wheel.

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A key figure associating with a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to eliminate competing party narratives. Where are the established party members, who prize continuity, tradition, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Why have we lost the reformers, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been marginalized, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of immigrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and protesters.

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And talk about positions they oppose. They portray protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – British flags, English symbols, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a individual might attain.

There doesn’t seem to be any built-in restraint, where they check back in with fundamental beliefs, their traditional foundations, their stated objectives. Any stick Nigel Farage presents to them, they pursue. Therefore, no, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are dragging social cohesion into the abyss.