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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have seemed moderately rational superficially – and different periods where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their base. This is not that situation. A leading Tory didn't energize the audience when she presented to her conference, while she threw out the red meat of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they didn’t believe she’d ever be equipped to follow through. Effectively, a substitute. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: loud, vigorous, but still a goodbye.

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Some are having another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the outset – but as things conclude, and other candidates has left. Others are creating a buzz around a rising star, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who appears as a traditional Conservative while wallpapering her online profiles with immigration-critical posts.

Might she become the leader to challenge the rival party, now leading the Tories by a significant margin? Can we describe for beating your rivals by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, should one not exist, maybe we can borrow one from combat sports?

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One need not look at the US to know this, or reference the scholar's seminal 2017 book, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: your entire mental framework is shouting it. The mainstream right is the key defense against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that democracies survive by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups over generations, at the expense of the broader population, and they never seem quite happy enough to stop wanting to make cuts out of public assistance.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an thorough historical examination into the Weimar-era political organization during the pre-war period (in parallel to the England's ruling party circa 1906). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and superficial stances of the radical wing, it cedes the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to Steve Bannon was a clear case – but radical alignment has become so evident now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who value predictability, conservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the international platform?

Why have we lost the modernisers, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of economic engines, not volatile situations? To be clear, I wasn’t wild about both groups too, but it’s absolutely striking how such perspectives – the inclusive conservative, the reformist element – have been marginalized, superseded by relentless demonisation: of migrants, religious groups, benefit claimants and protesters.

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While discussing issues they reject. They describe rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and use flags – union flags, patriotic icons, any item featuring a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that being British through and through is the best thing a individual might attain.

We observe an absence of any inherent moderation, where they check back in with core principles, their own hinterland, their own plan. Any stick the Reform leader throws for them, they pursue. Therefore, no, there's no pleasure to watch them implode. They are dragging civil society into the abyss.