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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have sounded almost sensible on the surface – and other moments where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet continued to be cherished by party loyalists. We are not in such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, while she presented the divisive talking points of border-focused rhetoric she thought they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. Effectively, an imitation. Conservatives despise that. An influential party member was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, vigorous, but still a goodbye.

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Certain members are taking a fresh look at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and other candidates has withdrawn. Others are creating a buzz around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who looks like a Shires Tory while wallpapering her online profiles with border-control messaging.

Could she be the leader to beat back the rival party, now outpolling the incumbents by a significant margin? Can we describe for overcoming competitors by becoming exactly like them? Furthermore, if there isn’t, surely we could borrow one from combat sports?

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One need not consider overseas examples to grasp this point, or consult the scholar's seminal 2017 book, the historical examination: every one of your synapses is screaming it. The mainstream right is the key defense resisting the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. I’m not wild about it as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been catering to the propertied and powerful for ages, at the cost of everyone else, and they never seem quite happy enough to halt efforts to reduce support out of disability benefits.

Yet his research is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (along with the British Conservatives in that historical context). When the mainstream right becomes uncertain, when it starts to chase the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it transfers the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister cosying up to an influential advisor was a clear case – but radical alignment has become so evident now as to overshadow all remaining Tory talking points. What happened to the traditional Tories, who value continuity, preservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

Where did they go the reformers, who portrayed the nation in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about both groups too, but it’s absolutely striking how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of immigrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize protests by elderly peace activists as “displays of hostility” and use flags – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to those questioning that complete national identity is the best thing a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, encouraging reassessment with core principles, their own hinterland, their own plan. Each incentive the political figure throws for them, they’ll chase. Consequently, no, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They’re taking social cohesion down with them.