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On various occasions when Conservative leaders have appeared moderately rational superficially – and alternate phases where they have sounded animal crackers, yet remained popular by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she presented to her conference, while she offered the red meat of migrant-baiting she thought they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a renewed sense of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. In practice, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative reportedly described it as a “themed procession”: loud, animated, but nonetheless a farewell.

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A faction is giving another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the beginning – but as things conclude, and rivals has departed. Others are creating a buzz around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the 2024 intake, who looks like a Shires Tory while wallpapering her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the figurehead to beat back Reform, now surpassing the Conservatives by 20 points? Is there a word for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? And, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could adopt a term from combat sports?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to know this, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s groundbreaking study, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall against the extremist factions.

The central argument is that political systems endure by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful over generations, at the detriment of other citizens, and they rarely appear adequately satisfied to stop wanting to make cuts out of public assistance.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (along with the UK Tories around the early 1900s). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, if it commences to adopt the terminology and gesture-based policies of the far right, it cedes the control.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to Steve Bannon was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. What happened to the established party members, who value predictability, tradition, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

Why have we lost the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of economic engines, not volatile situations? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding any of them as well, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the reformist element – have been erased, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, religious groups, social support users and protesters.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They describe protests by elderly peace activists as “festivals of animosity” and display banners – British flags, patriotic icons, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, where they check back in with core principles, their traditional foundations, their stated objectives. Each incentive the political figure throws for them, they follow. Consequently, definitely not, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They are pulling social cohesion down with them.