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There have been times when Conservative leaders have appeared moderately rational outwardly – and other moments where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their party. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, even as she presented the red meat of border-focused rhetoric she believed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all arisen with a renewed sense of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. It was, fake vegan meat. Tories hate that. An influential party member was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, energetic, but ultimately a farewell.

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Some are having another squiz at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has departed. Others are creating a interest around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who presents as a Shires Tory while wallpapering her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the leader to challenge Reform, now surpassing the Conservatives by a substantial lead? Can we describe for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Moreover, should one not exist, maybe we can use an expression from martial arts?

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It isn't necessary to consider overseas examples to understand this, or reference the scholar's seminal 2017 book, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. Centrist right-wing parties is the essential firewall preventing the extremist factions.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by satisfying the “propertied and powerful” happy. I have reservations as an organising principle. It feels as though we’ve been catering to the privileged groups for ages, at the cost of other citizens, and they rarely appear adequately satisfied to cease desiring to take a bite out of public assistance.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an comprehensive document review into the Weimar-era political organization during the pre-war period (in parallel to the UK Tories around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it cedes the control.

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Boris Johnson cosying up to Steve Bannon was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing party narratives. What happened to the established party members, who prize predictability, preservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Why have we lost the modernisers, who described the nation in terms of powerhouses, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I didn't particularly support either faction too, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been erased, replaced by ongoing scapegoating: of immigrants, Islamic communities, social support users and demonstrators.

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While discussing what they cannot stand for any more. They portray protests by elderly peace activists as “festivals of animosity” and use flags – national emblems, English symbols, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the best thing a person could possibly be.

There doesn’t seem to be any natural braking system, where they check back in with core principles, their own hinterland, their stated objectives. Any stick the Reform leader presents to them, they follow. Consequently, definitely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are pulling democratic norms along in their decline.