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On various occasions when Tory figureheads have sounded moderately rational superficially – and different periods where they have come across as animal crackers, yet were still adored by their party. This is not either of those times. One prominent Conservative failed to inspire attendees when she spoke at her conference, despite she threw out the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she thought they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all arisen with a revived feeling of humanity; rather they didn’t believe she’d ever be in a position to follow through. It was, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “New Orleans funeral”: noisy, vigorous, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Some are having renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has departed. Another group is generating a interest around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the latest cohort, who looks like a traditional Conservative while saturating her online profiles with immigration-critical posts.

Is she poised as the standard-bearer to challenge opposition forces, now surpassing the Conservatives by a significant margin? Can we describe for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? And, should one not exist, maybe we can use an expression from combat sports?

When Finding Satisfaction In Any of This, in a Schadenfreude Way, in a Consequence-Based Way, That Is Understandable – Yet Completely Irrational

You don’t even have to look at the US to know this, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall preventing the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that democracies survive by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. I’m not wild about it as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful over generations, at the cost of the broader population, and they never seem quite happy enough to halt efforts to make cuts out of public assistance.

Yet his research is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the British Conservatives around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right becomes uncertain, when it starts to adopt the terminology and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it transfers the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson aligning with a controversial strategist was one particularly egregious example – but radical alignment has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Where are the established party members, who treasure continuity, preservation, governing principles, the UK reputation on the international platform?

Why have we lost the reformers, who portrayed the country in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding any of them as well, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, superseded by ongoing scapegoating: of newcomers, Islamic communities, social support users and activists.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They portray protests by elderly peace activists as “displays of hostility” and employ symbols – British flags, Saint George’s flags, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to those questioning that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

We observe an absence of any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with fundamental beliefs, their own hinterland, their stated objectives. Whatever provocation the Reform leader offers them, they pursue. So, absolutely not, it isn't enjoyable to watch them implode. They’re taking democratic norms down with them.