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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have sounded moderately rational outwardly – and other moments where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet continued to be cherished by their party. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, despite she offered the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; rather they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. Effectively, an imitation. Conservatives despise that. An influential party member reportedly described it as a “themed procession”: loud, animated, but ultimately a farewell.

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Some are having renewed consideration at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Another group is generating a interest around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who looks like a Shires Tory while filling her socials with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the figurehead to beat back Reform, now leading the Conservatives by a significant margin? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by adopting their policies? Moreover, should one not exist, perhaps we might use an expression from fighting disciplines?

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It isn't necessary to consider overseas examples to understand this, or reference the scholar's influential work, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the crucial barrier preventing the far right.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by satisfying the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups for decades, at the cost of everyone else, and they never seem adequately satisfied to stop wanting to take a bite out of public assistance.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (combined with the England's ruling party in that historical context). When the mainstream right becomes uncertain, if it commences to pursue the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the extremist elements, it transfers the direction.

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Boris Johnson aligning with a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to overshadow all remaining party narratives. What happened to the established party members, who treasure stability, tradition, the constitution, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Where did they go the modernisers, who described the nation in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding either faction as well, but it's remarkably noticeable how such perspectives – the inclusive conservative, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, replaced by ongoing scapegoating: of newcomers, religious groups, welfare recipients and activists.

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Emphasizing issues they reject. They characterize protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and use flags – national emblems, English symbols, all objects bearing a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to individuals doubting that complete national identity is the best thing a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, encouraging reassessment with their own values, their traditional foundations, their original agenda. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage presents to them, they follow. Therefore, no, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They’re taking democratic norms into the abyss.