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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have sounded moderately rational superficially – and other moments where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their base. Currently, it's far from that situation. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she addressed her conference, while she threw out the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be able to deliver it. Effectively, an imitation. Conservatives despise that. One senior Conservative was said to label it a “themed procession”: noisy, vigorous, but ultimately a goodbye.

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Some are having another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has withdrawn. Others are creating a interest around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who appears as a Shires Tory while filling her socials with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the standard-bearer to beat back opposition forces, now leading the Conservatives by a substantial lead? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? 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 grasp this point, or reference Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the essential firewall preventing the extremist factions.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that representative governments persist by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an guiding tenet. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful for ages, at the detriment of other citizens, and they don't typically become adequately satisfied to stop wanting to take a bite out of disability benefits.

However, his study goes beyond conjecture, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (along with the England's ruling party in that historical context). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, as it begins to pursue the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the far right, it cedes the direction.

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Boris Johnson associating with a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Whatever became of the established party members, who treasure stability, conservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Where did they go the progressives, who defined the nation in terms of economic engines, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I didn't particularly support either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the inclusive conservative, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and activists.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and display banners – national emblems, patriotic icons, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an open challenge to individuals doubting that being British through and through is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with core principles, their traditional foundations, their stated objectives. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage offers them, they’ll chase. Therefore, no, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They are dragging democratic norms into the abyss.