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Throughout history when party chiefs have appeared moderately rational superficially – and different periods where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet were still adored by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, even as she offered the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she believed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to follow through. Effectively, an imitation. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: loud, vigorous, but still a parting.

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A faction is giving another squiz at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Others are creating a buzz around a newer MP, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who appears as a Shires Tory while filling her socials with border-control messaging.

Is she poised as the standard-bearer to counter Reform, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Can we describe for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Moreover, if there isn’t, maybe we can borrow one from combat sports?

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One need not consider overseas examples to understand this, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the essential firewall resisting the far right.

The central argument is that political systems endure by satisfying the “elite classes” happy. I have reservations as an guiding tenet. One gets the impression as though we’ve been indulging the affluent and connected for decades, at the detriment of everyone else, and they rarely appear quite happy enough to stop wanting to take a bite out of disability benefits.

Yet his research is not speculation, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the Weimar Republic (in parallel to the UK Tories in that historical context). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, as it begins to adopt the terminology and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it transfers the control.

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A key figure aligning with an influential advisor was a clear case – but radical alignment has become so evident now as to eliminate competing Tory talking points. Where are the old-school Conservatives, who prize continuity, preservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

What happened to the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of growth centers, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I didn't particularly support both groups too, but it’s absolutely striking how such perspectives – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been erased, in favour of constant vilification: of migrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and activists.

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And talk about issues they reject. They portray protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and use flags – union flags, English symbols, all objects bearing a bold patriotic hues – as an clear provocation to those questioning that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with core principles, their own hinterland, their stated objectives. Any stick the political figure presents to them, they pursue. Consequently, absolutely not, it isn't enjoyable to watch them implode. They are pulling social cohesion along in their decline.