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There have been times when Conservative leaders have appeared reasonably coherent on the surface – and different periods where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet continued to be cherished by their party. We are not in that situation. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she presented to her conference, despite she offered the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a revived feeling of humanity; rather they didn’t believe she’d ever be able to follow through. In practice, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. An influential party member apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, energetic, but nonetheless a parting.

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A faction is giving renewed consideration at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has left. Some are fostering a interest around a newer MP, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who appears as a countryside-based politician while wallpapering her social media with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the leader to challenge Reform, now outpolling the Tories by 20 points? Does a term exist for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? And, if there isn’t, maybe we can adopt a term from combat sports?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to grasp this point, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s groundbreaking study, the historical examination: every one of your synapses is shouting it. Moderate conservatism is the crucial barrier resisting the extremist factions.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by satisfying the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups for decades, at the cost of everyone else, and they never seem adequately satisfied to stop wanting to make cuts out of disability benefits.

However, his study isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the Weimar-era political organization during the Weimar Republic (combined with the British Conservatives circa 1906). Once centrist parties becomes uncertain, as it begins to adopt the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the radical wing, it transfers the direction.

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Boris Johnson cosying up to Steve Bannon was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to overshadow all remaining Tory talking points. What happened to the established party members, who prize continuity, tradition, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the global scene?

What happened to the reformers, who portrayed the nation in terms of powerhouses, not powder kegs? To be clear, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the reformist element – have been marginalized, superseded by constant vilification: of newcomers, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

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Emphasizing issues they reject. They describe protests by older demonstrators as “displays of hostility” and employ symbols – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an clear provocation to anyone who doesn’t think that being British through and through is the highest ideal a human can aspire to.

We observe an absence of any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with core principles, their own hinterland, their own plan. Whatever provocation the political figure throws for them, they follow. So, absolutely not, it’s not fun to watch them implode. They’re taking civil society along in their decline.