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Throughout history when Conservative leaders have appeared almost sensible on the surface – and alternate phases where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet continued to be cherished by their party. We are not in either of those times. A leading Tory didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, despite she threw out the divisive talking points of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they were skeptical she’d ever be able to implement it. Effectively, a substitute. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory apparently called it a “themed procession”: loud, energetic, but still a parting.

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Some are having renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but as things conclude, and everyone else has withdrawn. Some are fostering a excitement around a rising star, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who appears as a traditional Conservative while saturating her socials with border-control messaging.

Could she be the leader to beat back opposition forces, now surpassing the incumbents by a significant margin? Is there a word for defeating opponents by adopting their policies? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could use an expression from martial arts?

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It isn't necessary to consider overseas examples to understand this, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, the historical examination: every one of your synapses is shouting it. Centrist right-wing parties is the essential firewall resisting the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by satisfying the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups for ages, at the detriment of other citizens, and they don't typically become adequately satisfied to halt efforts to make cuts out of disability benefits.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an thorough historical examination into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the UK Tories circa 1906). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, if it commences to chase the terminology and superficial stances of the radical wing, it hands them the direction.

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Boris Johnson cosying up to an influential advisor was a notable instance – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing party narratives. Where are the established party members, who value stability, preservation, the constitution, the UK reputation on the global scene?

Where did they go the reformers, who portrayed the country in terms of economic engines, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, replaced by relentless demonisation: of migrants, Muslims, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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While discussing issues they reject. They characterize protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and display banners – union flags, patriotic icons, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with core principles, their historical context, their own plan. Each incentive Nigel Farage offers them, they’ll chase. Therefore, absolutely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They’re taking social cohesion into the abyss.