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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have seemed moderately rational on the surface – and alternate phases where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by party loyalists. This is not such a scenario. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she presented to her conference, even as she offered the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she believed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all arisen with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to follow through. Effectively, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: loud, energetic, but still a farewell.

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Certain members are taking another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and other candidates has left. Another group is generating a buzz around a rising star, a recently elected representative of the latest cohort, who presents as a countryside-based politician while saturating her social media with border-control messaging.

Is she poised as the figurehead to beat back Reform, now surpassing the Conservatives by 20 points? Can we describe for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? And, should one not exist, perhaps we might use an expression from fighting disciplines?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to understand this, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: your entire mental framework is shouting it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall preventing the extremist factions.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by satisfying the “elite classes” happy. Personally, I question this as an guiding tenet. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the affluent and connected for ages, at the detriment of the broader population, and they never seem adequately satisfied to stop wanting to make cuts out of public assistance.

However, his study goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the Weimar Republic (in parallel to the England's ruling party circa 1906). As moderate conservatism becomes uncertain, if it commences to adopt the terminology and superficial stances of the far right, it cedes the direction.

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The former Prime Minister aligning with an influential advisor was a clear case – but far-right flirtation has become so evident now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Where are the established party members, who value stability, tradition, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

Where did they go the modernisers, who defined the United Kingdom in terms of powerhouses, not powder kegs? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been marginalized, in favour of relentless demonisation: of newcomers, religious groups, benefit claimants and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing issues they reject. They characterize rallies by elderly peace activists as “displays of hostility” and display banners – union flags, Saint George’s flags, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an direct confrontation to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with fundamental beliefs, their historical context, their stated objectives. Any stick the political figure throws for them, they follow. Consequently, no, it isn't enjoyable to observe their collapse. They’re taking social cohesion into the abyss.