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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have seemed 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 such a scenario. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, while she presented the red meat of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be in a position to follow through. In practice, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: boisterous, animated, but ultimately a farewell.

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A faction is giving another squiz at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has departed. Others are creating a buzz around a rising star, a 34-year-old MP of the latest cohort, who looks like a traditional Conservative while saturating her social media with border-control messaging.

Could she be the leader to challenge opposition forces, now outpolling the incumbents by a substantial lead? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by becoming exactly like them? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, perhaps we might adopt a term from combat sports?

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It isn't necessary to consider overseas examples to understand this, or consult the scholar's seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is emphasizing it. Centrist right-wing parties is the key defense against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that representative governments persist by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the affluent and connected for decades, at the expense of the broader population, and they don't typically become sufficiently content to cease desiring to reduce support out of social welfare.

However, his study isn’t a hunch, 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). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, as it begins to pursue the terminology and superficial stances of the radical wing, it cedes the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Where are the traditional Tories, who treasure continuity, tradition, legal frameworks, the national prestige on the world stage?

Why have we lost the progressives, who described the nation in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about any of them either, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been eliminated, in favour of constant vilification: of migrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and protesters.

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Emphasizing issues they reject. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and use flags – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, all objects bearing a bold patriotic hues – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There doesn’t seem to be any natural braking system, where they check back in with fundamental beliefs, their traditional foundations, their own plan. Whatever provocation the political figure presents to them, they follow. Therefore, no, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They’re taking social cohesion into the abyss.