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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have appeared moderately rational outwardly – and alternate phases where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet were still adored by their party. This is not such a scenario. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, while she offered the divisive talking points of border-focused rhetoric she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a revived feeling of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be able to implement it. In practice, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “themed procession”: loud, vigorous, but still a parting.

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Certain members are taking another squiz at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Another group is generating a interest around Katie Lam, a 34-year-old MP of the newest members, who presents as a traditional Conservative while filling her social media with immigration-critical posts.

Might she become the figurehead to beat back Reform, now outpolling the incumbents by 20 points? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? And, should one not exist, maybe we can use an expression from martial arts?

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One need not consider overseas examples to grasp this point, or reference the scholar's influential work, the historical examination: every one of your synapses is emphasizing it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall against the radical elements.

The central argument is that democracies survive by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful over generations, at the cost of everyone else, and they rarely appear adequately satisfied to stop wanting to reduce support out of disability benefits.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the Weimar Republic (along with the UK Tories circa 1906). As moderate conservatism falters in conviction, as it begins to pursue the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the far right, it cedes the control.

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Boris Johnson cosying up to an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but radical alignment has become so evident now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Where are the established party members, who treasure continuity, tradition, the constitution, the national prestige on the global scene?

What happened to the reformers, who portrayed the nation in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but it’s absolutely striking how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been erased, superseded by constant vilification: of migrants, religious groups, social support users and demonstrators.

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While discussing what they cannot stand for any more. They portray rallies by elderly peace activists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – union flags, Saint George’s flags, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the best thing a individual might attain.

There doesn’t seem to be any inherent moderation, that prompts reflection with fundamental beliefs, their traditional foundations, their original agenda. Each incentive Nigel Farage offers them, they pursue. So, absolutely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They’re taking democratic norms down with them.