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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have sounded moderately rational on the surface – and other moments where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet continued to be cherished by their party. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. One prominent Conservative failed to inspire attendees when she addressed her conference, even as she threw out the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all arisen with a revived feeling of humanity; more that they didn’t believe she’d ever be able to implement it. Effectively, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. An influential party member was said to label it a “themed procession”: boisterous, vigorous, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Certain members are taking renewed consideration at one contender, who was a hard “no” at the outset – but as things conclude, and everyone else has left. Others are creating a buzz around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who appears as a countryside-based politician while saturating her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the figurehead to beat back Reform, now surpassing the Conservatives by a substantial lead? Is there a word for beating your rivals by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, should one not exist, perhaps we might adopt a term from combat sports?

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One need not examine America to understand this, nor read the scholar's groundbreaking study, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier resisting the far right.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that democracies survive by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups over generations, at the expense of everyone else, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to halt efforts to make cuts out of disability benefits.

However, his study goes beyond conjecture, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (along with the British Conservatives in that historical context). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, as it begins to pursue the terminology and gesture-based policies of the extremist elements, it cedes the steering wheel.

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A key figure aligning with an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. What happened to the established party members, who prize stability, conservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

Where did they go the progressives, who portrayed the nation in terms of powerhouses, not tension-filled environments? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been erased, in favour of relentless demonisation: of migrants, Muslims, social support users and activists.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize protests by elderly peace activists as “displays of hostility” and employ symbols – national emblems, English symbols, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the best thing a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, encouraging reassessment with fundamental beliefs, their historical context, their own plan. Each incentive the political figure offers them, they follow. Therefore, definitely not, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They’re taking civil society along in their decline.