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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have seemed moderately rational outwardly – and alternate phases where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet were still adored by their base. This is not such a scenario. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she presented to her conference, even as she presented the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all awakened with a revived feeling of humanity; rather they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to implement it. It was, a substitute. Tories hate that. An influential party member apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, energetic, but still a goodbye.

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Some are having another squiz at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has left. Some are fostering a buzz around a rising star, a young parliamentarian of the newest members, who appears as a traditional Conservative while saturating her online profiles with border-control messaging.

Is she poised as the figurehead to challenge the rival party, now outpolling the Conservatives by a significant margin? Does a term exist for overcoming competitors by adopting their policies? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, maybe we can adopt a term from martial arts?

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You don’t even have to consider overseas examples to know this, or consult a prominent academic's influential work, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is shouting it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall resisting the extremist factions.

The central argument is that democracies survive by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. It feels as though we’ve been keeping the privileged groups 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.

But his analysis isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the Weimar Republic (along with the British Conservatives circa 1906). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, as it begins to adopt the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it transfers the direction.

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A key figure associating with a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but far-right flirtation has become so evident now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. What happened to the traditional Tories, who value continuity, conservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

Where did they go the reformers, who portrayed the country in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Let me emphasize, I wasn’t wild about either faction as well, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, in favour of constant vilification: of immigrants, Muslims, social support users and protesters.

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And talk about positions they oppose. They characterize rallies by elderly peace activists as “carnivals of hatred” and use flags – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, that prompts reflection with core principles, their historical context, their original agenda. Any stick the Reform leader offers them, they’ll chase. Consequently, absolutely not, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They’re taking social cohesion into the abyss.