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Throughout history when party chiefs have seemed moderately rational on the surface – and other moments where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their party. We are not in such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, despite she presented the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all woken up with a fresh awareness of humanity; rather they didn’t believe she’d ever be able to follow through. It was, fake vegan meat. Conservatives despise that. One senior Conservative was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: noisy, vigorous, but still a parting.

Coming Developments for this Party With a Decent Case to Make for Itself as the Top-Performing Governing Force in History?

A faction is giving another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a hard “no” at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and rivals has left. Some are fostering a buzz around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the 2024 intake, who looks like a traditional Conservative while wallpapering her socials with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the standard-bearer to challenge opposition forces, now surpassing the incumbents by a significant margin? Can we describe for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, maybe we can adopt a term from martial arts?

When Finding Satisfaction In Such Events, in a How-the-Mighty-Are-Fallen Way, in a Serves-Them-Right-for-Austerity Way, One Can See Why – Yet Absolutely Bananas

One need not consider overseas examples to grasp this point, or consult a prominent academic's groundbreaking study, the historical examination: your entire mental framework is screaming it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that representative governments persist by satisfying the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful for ages, at the expense of the broader population, and they rarely appear quite happy enough to halt efforts to take a bite out of public assistance.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (combined with the British Conservatives in that historical context). As moderate conservatism loses its confidence, when it starts to chase the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the far right, it transfers the steering wheel.

We Saw Comparable Behavior In the Referendum Aftermath

A key figure aligning with Steve Bannon was a clear case – but radical alignment has become so evident now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who treasure stability, conservation, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Where did they go the reformers, who portrayed the country in terms of economic engines, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I didn't particularly support any of them as well, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, in favour of ongoing scapegoating: of immigrants, Islamic communities, benefit claimants and protesters.

Appear at Podiums to Music That Sounds Like the Signature Music to the Popular Series

While discussing what they cannot stand for any more. They describe rallies by older demonstrators as “displays of hostility” and use flags – national emblems, English symbols, anything with a vibrant national tones – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that complete national identity is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There doesn’t seem to be any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with their own values, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Any stick the Reform leader presents to them, they follow. So, no, there's no pleasure to watch them implode. They are dragging democratic norms into the abyss.