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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have sounded moderately rational on the surface – and other moments where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet were still adored by their base. This is not either of those times. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, despite she presented the red meat of migrant-baiting she believed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. Effectively, a substitute. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: noisy, vigorous, but nonetheless a parting.

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Some are having another squiz at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has withdrawn. Others are creating a buzz around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the 2024 intake, who appears as a traditional Conservative while filling her online profiles with border-control messaging.

Is she poised as the standard-bearer to beat back opposition forces, now surpassing the incumbents by a substantial lead? Is there a word for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? And, should one not exist, perhaps we might use an expression from martial arts?

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You don’t even have to consider overseas examples to understand this, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is screaming it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier preventing the far right.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. I’m not wild about it as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups for ages, at the detriment of everyone else, and they don't typically become sufficiently content to cease desiring to make cuts out of disability benefits.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (in parallel to the British Conservatives in that historical context). When the mainstream right loses its confidence, when it starts to pursue the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the extremist elements, it transfers the control.

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A key figure aligning with an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing party narratives. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who value predictability, preservation, the constitution, the national prestige on the world stage?

Where did they go the modernisers, who defined the country in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? To be clear, I had reservations regarding any of them either, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been eliminated, superseded by constant vilification: of newcomers, Muslims, social support users and protesters.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They describe rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – British flags, English symbols, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with core principles, their traditional foundations, their stated objectives. Each incentive Nigel Farage throws for them, they pursue. So, no, there's no pleasure to watch them implode. They are pulling social cohesion down with them.