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There have been times when Tory figureheads have sounded reasonably coherent outwardly – and other moments where they have come across as animal crackers, yet remained popular by their base. Currently, it's far from either of those times. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, even as she presented the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be able to deliver it. It was, a substitute. Tories hate that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: noisy, energetic, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Some are having another squiz at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but now it’s the end, and rivals has withdrawn. Others are creating a buzz around a newer MP, a recently elected representative of the latest cohort, who appears as a Shires Tory while saturating her socials with immigration-critical posts.

Could she be the leader to challenge the rival party, now surpassing the incumbents by a significant margin? Is there a word for defeating opponents by adopting their policies? Moreover, should one not exist, surely we could borrow one from combat sports?

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One need not consider overseas examples to grasp this point, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is emphasizing it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been indulging the affluent and connected over generations, at the detriment of everyone else, and they don't typically become adequately satisfied to halt efforts to make cuts out of public assistance.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an comprehensive document review into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the British Conservatives circa 1906). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, if it commences to adopt the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the far right, it transfers the control.

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A key figure associating with Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to overshadow all remaining Conservative messages. Where are the traditional Tories, who treasure continuity, tradition, the constitution, the national prestige on the international platform?

Where did they go the reformers, who defined the United Kingdom in terms of economic engines, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I wasn’t wild about any of them either, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, in favour of constant vilification: of migrants, religious groups, benefit claimants and activists.

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While discussing issues they reject. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – union flags, English symbols, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that complete national identity is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.

We observe an absence of any natural braking system, encouraging reassessment with their own values, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Whatever provocation the political figure throws for them, they follow. So, definitely not, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They are dragging civil society along in their decline.