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On various occasions when party chiefs have sounded reasonably coherent on the surface – and other moments where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet remained popular by party loyalists. This is not such a scenario. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, even as she offered the red meat of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they didn’t believe she’d ever be equipped to deliver it. Effectively, a substitute. Tories hate that. An influential party member was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: boisterous, vigorous, but ultimately a parting.

What Next for the Group With a Decent Case to Make for Itself as the Most Historically Successful Political Organization in the World?

Certain members are taking another squiz at one contender, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Another group is generating a interest around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who presents as a traditional Conservative while filling her socials with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the standard-bearer to counter the rival party, now outpolling the Tories by a significant margin? Is there a word for beating your rivals by adopting their policies? And, should one not exist, maybe we can adopt a term from martial arts?

When Finding Satisfaction In Any of This, in a How-the-Mighty-Are-Fallen Way, in a Consequence-Based Way, One Can See Why – However Totally Misguided

You don’t even have to look at the US to understand this, nor read a prominent academic's influential work, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is emphasizing it. Centrist right-wing parties is the key defense against the far right.

The central argument is that political systems endure by appeasing 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 decades, at the expense of everyone else, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to cease desiring to take a bite out of public assistance.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (combined with the British Conservatives in that historical context). As moderate conservatism falters in conviction, when it starts to chase the terminology and superficial stances of the far right, it transfers the steering wheel.

There Were Examples Some of This During the Brexit Years

A key figure aligning with Steve Bannon was a notable instance – but far-right flirtation has become so pronounced now as to overshadow all remaining Conservative messages. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who prize predictability, preservation, governing principles, the UK reputation on the world stage?

What happened to the reformers, who portrayed the nation in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about both groups either, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, superseded by ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

They Walk On Stage to Themes Resembling the Theme Tune to the Television Drama

And talk about positions they oppose. They characterize protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and display banners – British flags, English symbols, all objects bearing a vibrant national tones – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that being British through and through is the highest ideal a individual might attain.

We observe an absence of any natural braking system, where they check back in with core principles, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Any stick the political figure offers them, they pursue. Therefore, no, it’s not fun to watch them implode. They’re taking democratic norms down with them.