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There have been times when party chiefs have seemed almost sensible superficially – and alternate phases where they have sounded animal crackers, yet remained popular by party loyalists. We are not in such a scenario. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she spoke at her conference, even as she threw out the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a revived feeling of humanity; rather they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to follow through. Effectively, a substitute. Tories hate that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “jazz funeral”: boisterous, animated, but still a farewell.

What Next for the Group That Can Reasonably Claim to Make for Itself as the Top-Performing Governing Force in Modern Times?

Some are having renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has left. Another group is generating a excitement around a rising star, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who appears as a countryside-based politician while filling her socials with border-control messaging.

Is she poised as the leader to counter the rival party, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Does a term exist for beating your rivals by becoming exactly like them? Moreover, if there isn’t, maybe we can use an expression from combat sports?

Should You Take Pleasure In Any of This, in a How-the-Mighty-Are-Fallen Way, in a Just-Deserts Way, That Is Understandable – However Completely Irrational

One need not look at the US to know this, or reference the scholar's influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier resisting the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups over generations, at the cost of the broader population, and they never seem adequately satisfied to stop wanting to reduce support out of social welfare.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the Weimar Republic (combined with the UK Tories around the early 1900s). As moderate conservatism becomes uncertain, as it begins to adopt the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it hands them the steering wheel.

We Saw Similar Patterns During the Brexit Years

Boris Johnson aligning with an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing Tory talking points. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who treasure predictability, preservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the global scene?

Where did they go the modernisers, who described the country in terms of economic engines, not powder kegs? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, superseded by constant vilification: of newcomers, Muslims, welfare recipients and activists.

Appear at Podiums to Themes Resembling the Signature Music to the Television Drama

And talk about positions they oppose. They describe rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and employ symbols – British flags, English symbols, any item featuring a vibrant national tones – as an clear provocation to those questioning that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There doesn’t seem to be any inherent moderation, where they check back in with core principles, their historical context, their stated objectives. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage offers them, they pursue. Consequently, no, it isn't enjoyable to observe their collapse. They are pulling social cohesion down with them.