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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have appeared reasonably coherent superficially – and alternate phases where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their base. We are not in that situation. Kemi Badenoch failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, while she threw out the red meat of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to implement it. Effectively, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, animated, but still a farewell.

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A faction is giving another squiz at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Some are fostering a interest around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who presents as a Shires Tory while wallpapering her socials with immigration-critical posts.

Is she poised as the standard-bearer to challenge opposition forces, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Does a term exist for overcoming competitors by adopting their policies? Moreover, should one not exist, perhaps we might adopt a term from combat sports?

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One need not examine America to understand this, or reference a prominent academic's influential work, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the crucial barrier preventing the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that political systems endure by appeasing the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been keeping the affluent and connected for ages, at the expense of the broader population, and they don't typically become quite happy enough to cease desiring to make cuts out of public assistance.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (along with the UK Tories in that historical context). When the mainstream right becomes uncertain, when it starts to pursue the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it hands them the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister aligning with Steve Bannon was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to overshadow all remaining party narratives. What happened to the traditional Tories, who treasure predictability, preservation, legal frameworks, the national prestige on the international platform?

What happened to the reformers, who defined the nation in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? To be clear, I wasn’t wild about both groups either, but the contrast is dramatic how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been erased, replaced by relentless demonisation: of immigrants, Muslims, social support users and activists.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – national emblems, patriotic icons, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that complete national identity is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with their own values, their traditional foundations, their stated objectives. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage throws for them, they pursue. Therefore, definitely not, there's no pleasure to watch them implode. They are pulling democratic norms down with them.