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Throughout history when party chiefs have sounded almost sensible on the surface – and other moments where they have sounded animal crackers, yet continued to be cherished by their base. We are not in such a scenario. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she spoke at her conference, despite she presented the red meat of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to follow through. In practice, fake vegan meat. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: noisy, animated, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Certain members are taking a fresh look at one contender, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has withdrawn. Another group is generating a interest around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who presents as a countryside-based politician while wallpapering her social media with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the figurehead to beat back Reform, now surpassing the Tories by a substantial lead? Is there a word for beating your rivals by becoming exactly like them? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, perhaps we might borrow one from fighting disciplines?

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One need not consider overseas examples to understand this, nor read the scholar's groundbreaking study, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the crucial barrier against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that democracies survive by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the affluent and connected over generations, at the cost of everyone else, and they rarely appear quite happy enough to halt efforts to make cuts out of disability benefits.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an thorough historical examination into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the England's ruling party circa 1906). Once centrist parties becomes uncertain, as it begins to adopt the buzzwords and superficial stances of the radical wing, it cedes the control.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to a controversial strategist was a clear case – but radical alignment has become so obvious now as to overshadow all remaining Tory talking points. Whatever became of the traditional Tories, who treasure predictability, conservation, the constitution, the national prestige on the international platform?

Why have we lost the progressives, who defined the nation in terms of powerhouses, not tension-filled environments? Let me emphasize, I wasn’t wild about both groups as well, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the reformist element – have been eliminated, superseded by constant vilification: of migrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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While discussing what they cannot stand for any more. They describe rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – British flags, patriotic icons, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that being British through and through is the best thing a person could possibly be.

There doesn’t seem to be any inherent moderation, where they check back in with their own values, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Any stick Nigel Farage presents to them, they’ll chase. Therefore, no, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They’re taking civil society into the abyss.