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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have seemed almost sensible superficially – and other moments where they have come across as animal crackers, yet continued to be cherished by their party. This is not such a scenario. One prominent Conservative failed to inspire attendees when she addressed her conference, despite she threw out the red meat of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; instead they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to implement it. It was, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. An influential party member apparently called it a “themed procession”: noisy, energetic, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Certain members are taking renewed consideration at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the outset – but as things conclude, and rivals has departed. Others are creating a buzz around a rising star, a recently elected representative of the latest cohort, who appears as a countryside-based politician while filling her socials with border-control messaging.

Could she be the figurehead to counter Reform, now surpassing the Tories by 20 points? Does a term exist for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? And, should one not exist, perhaps we might adopt a term from combat sports?

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You don’t even have to consider overseas examples to grasp this point, nor read a prominent academic's seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that representative governments persist by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been catering to the propertied and powerful over generations, at the detriment of the broader population, and they never seem adequately satisfied to stop wanting to reduce support out of social welfare.

But his analysis is not speculation, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (combined with the British Conservatives in that historical context). When the mainstream right becomes uncertain, as it begins to adopt the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it cedes the steering wheel.

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A key figure cosying up to Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other party narratives. Where are the traditional Tories, who value continuity, preservation, the constitution, the UK reputation on the global scene?

Where did they go the reformers, who defined the nation in terms of economic engines, not volatile situations? Let me emphasize, I wasn’t wild about either faction either, but it's remarkably noticeable how such perspectives – the broad-church approach, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, superseded by constant vilification: of newcomers, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and activists.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They portray protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – union flags, English symbols, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to those questioning that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, that prompts reflection with fundamental beliefs, their historical context, their stated objectives. Each incentive the political figure offers them, they pursue. Consequently, definitely not, it’s not fun to watch them implode. They’re taking social cohesion down with them.