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On various occasions when Conservative leaders have sounded moderately rational superficially – and alternate phases where they have come across as animal crackers, yet were still adored by their party. We are not in such a scenario. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she presented to her conference, while she presented the divisive talking points of migrant-baiting she believed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be able to follow through. In practice, an imitation. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, energetic, but still a farewell.

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A faction is giving another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has departed. Another group is generating a buzz around a newer MP, a 34-year-old MP of the newest members, who presents as a countryside-based politician while filling her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the leader to counter Reform, now leading the incumbents by a significant margin? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by adopting their policies? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, perhaps we might use an expression from martial arts?

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One need not look at the US to understand this, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that political systems endure by satisfying the “elite classes” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful for decades, at the cost of everyone else, and they never seem adequately satisfied to halt efforts to take a bite out of disability benefits.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (along with the UK Tories in that historical context). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, when it starts to adopt the terminology and gesture-based policies of the far right, it transfers the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson associating with a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but far-right flirtation has become so pronounced now as to overshadow all remaining party narratives. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who prize stability, tradition, the constitution, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Why have we lost the reformers, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of powerhouses, not tension-filled environments? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support any of them as well, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the inclusive conservative, the reformist element – have been marginalized, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of newcomers, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize demonstrations by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and use flags – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an open challenge to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the best thing a individual might attain.

We observe an absence of any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with fundamental beliefs, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Whatever provocation the Reform leader offers them, they follow. Therefore, definitely not, it’s not fun to observe their collapse. They are pulling civil society down with them.