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Throughout history when Conservative leaders have seemed reasonably coherent superficially – and alternate phases where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet were still adored by their base. We are not in that situation. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, while she offered the provocative rhetoric of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a fresh awareness of humanity; instead they lacked faith she’d ever be able to deliver it. Effectively, fake vegan meat. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: loud, animated, but still a parting.

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Some are having a fresh look at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the beginning – but as things conclude, and rivals has left. Others are creating a interest around a newer MP, a 34-year-old MP of the newest members, who presents as a countryside-based politician while saturating her socials with immigration-critical posts.

Could she be the figurehead to counter opposition forces, now outpolling the Tories by 20 points? Is there a word for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could borrow one from martial arts?

When Finding Satisfaction In Such Events, in a How-the-Mighty-Are-Fallen Way, in a Serves-Them-Right-for-Austerity Way, It's Comprehensible – But Absolutely Bananas

It isn't necessary to examine America to know this, or consult a prominent academic's influential work, 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 fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful over generations, at the expense of the broader population, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to stop wanting to reduce support out of public assistance.

Yet his research is not speculation, it’s an thorough historical examination into the historical German conservative group during the pre-war period (in parallel to the England's ruling party around the early 1900s). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and gesture-based policies of the radical wing, it cedes the control.

There Were Examples Some of This In the Referendum Aftermath

A key figure associating with an influential advisor was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other Conservative messages. Whatever became of the established party members, who prize predictability, preservation, governing principles, the UK reputation on the global scene?

Where did they go the progressives, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of economic engines, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I didn't particularly support any of them too, but it's remarkably noticeable how such perspectives – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, religious groups, social support users and protesters.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They portray demonstrations by elderly peace activists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – national emblems, patriotic icons, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a person could possibly be.

There doesn’t seem to be any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with core principles, their historical context, their stated objectives. Each incentive Nigel Farage throws for them, they pursue. Therefore, definitely not, there's no pleasure to watch them implode. They are dragging democratic norms into the abyss.