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Throughout history when Conservative leaders have seemed moderately rational outwardly – and different periods where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet were still adored by their party. This is not such a scenario. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, even as she threw out the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to follow through. It was, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: noisy, vigorous, but nonetheless a goodbye.

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A faction is giving a fresh look at one contender, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but as things conclude, and everyone else has left. Some are fostering a interest around a rising star, a recently elected representative of the latest cohort, who looks like a countryside-based politician while saturating her socials with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the figurehead to counter the rival party, now leading the incumbents by a substantial lead? Can we describe for beating your rivals by becoming exactly like them? And, if there isn’t, maybe we can borrow one from martial arts?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to understand this, or reference Daniel Ziblatt’s groundbreaking study, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. Moderate conservatism is the key defense against the far right.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by appeasing the “elite classes” happy. I’m not wild about it as an organising principle. It feels as though we’ve been keeping the privileged groups over generations, at the detriment of the broader population, and they don't typically become sufficiently content to stop wanting to take a bite out of public assistance.

However, his study goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (combined with the UK Tories circa 1906). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, when it starts to adopt the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it hands them the steering wheel.

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A key figure associating with a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but far-right flirtation has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing party narratives. Where are the traditional Tories, who value predictability, tradition, legal frameworks, the national prestige on the international platform?

What happened to the reformers, who defined the country in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about both groups too, but it's remarkably noticeable how such perspectives – the broad-church approach, the reformist element – have been erased, in favour of constant vilification: of newcomers, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They describe protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – British flags, English symbols, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that complete national identity is the best thing a person could possibly be.

We observe an absence of any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with core principles, their historical context, their stated objectives. Each incentive the political figure throws for them, they pursue. Consequently, definitely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They’re taking social cohesion down with them.