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There have been times when Conservative leaders have appeared almost sensible on the surface – and other moments where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet were still adored by their party. Currently, it's far from either of those times. One prominent Conservative didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, while she presented the red meat of anti-immigration sentiment she thought they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; rather they didn’t believe she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. Effectively, an imitation. Tories hate that. An influential party member was said to label it a “themed procession”: boisterous, animated, but still a farewell.

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A faction is giving a fresh look at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Others are creating a excitement around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the newest members, who presents as a countryside-based politician while filling her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the standard-bearer to counter opposition forces, now surpassing the Conservatives by 20 points? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by adopting their policies? Moreover, should one not exist, surely we could adopt a term from combat sports?

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One need not look at the US to grasp this point, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is emphasizing it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall resisting the radical elements.

The central argument is that representative governments persist by appeasing the “elite classes” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful for ages, at the expense of everyone else, and they rarely appear adequately satisfied to stop wanting to reduce support out of public assistance.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (combined with the England's ruling party circa 1906). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, when it starts to pursue the buzzwords and gesture-based policies of the radical wing, it cedes the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson associating with Steve Bannon was a notable instance – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Where are the old-school Conservatives, who value predictability, conservation, the constitution, the national prestige on the world stage?

Where did they go the progressives, who described the United Kingdom in terms of economic engines, not tension-filled environments? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding any of them too, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and activists.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They portray rallies by elderly peace activists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – national emblems, Saint George’s flags, any item featuring a bold patriotic hues – as an open challenge to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with their own values, their traditional foundations, their original agenda. Each incentive Nigel Farage presents to them, they pursue. Therefore, absolutely not, there's no pleasure to see their disintegration. They are dragging social cohesion along in their decline.