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Throughout history when party chiefs have seemed moderately rational on the surface – and different periods where they have come across as animal crackers, yet were still adored by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from either of those times. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, despite she threw out the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she thought they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. In practice, a substitute. Tories hate that. An influential party member was said to label it a “themed procession”: loud, animated, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Some are having another squiz at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the start of the night – but as things conclude, and other candidates has departed. Others are creating a interest around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who appears as a countryside-based politician while filling her social media with immigration-critical posts.

Might she become the standard-bearer to counter the rival party, now outpolling the Conservatives by a substantial lead? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? And, if there isn’t, perhaps we might borrow one from combat sports?

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It isn't necessary to consider overseas examples to understand this, or reference the scholar's influential work, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is shouting it. The mainstream right is the key defense against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that democracies survive by keeping the “elite classes” happy. I’m not wild about it as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the propertied and powerful over generations, at the cost of everyone else, and they rarely appear quite happy enough to cease desiring to take a bite out of social welfare.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the interwar Germany (along with the UK Tories around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, if it commences to chase the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the far right, it hands them the control.

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The former Prime Minister associating with a controversial strategist was a clear case – but radical alignment has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other Conservative messages. Where are the traditional Tories, who value predictability, preservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Why have we lost the progressives, who defined the nation in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support both groups as well, but it’s absolutely striking how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, in favour of constant vilification: of migrants, Islamic communities, social support users and demonstrators.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They describe protests by older demonstrators as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – British flags, patriotic icons, all objects bearing a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to those questioning that being British through and through is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, where they check back in with their own values, their historical context, their stated objectives. Each incentive the political figure offers them, they pursue. So, definitely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are dragging democratic norms down with them.