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Throughout history when party chiefs have seemed moderately rational on the surface – and alternate phases where they have sounded animal crackers, yet were still adored by party loyalists. Currently, it's far from that situation. A leading Tory failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, while she threw out the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she believed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all arisen with a fresh awareness of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be equipped to follow through. In practice, a substitute. Tories hate that. A veteran Tory apparently called it a “jazz funeral”: loud, energetic, but still a goodbye.

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A faction is giving another squiz at one contender, who was a hard “no” at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and rivals has withdrawn. Others are creating a excitement around a newer MP, a 34-year-old MP of the newest members, who appears as a Shires Tory while saturating her social media with immigration-critical posts.

Is she poised as the leader to beat back the rival party, now outpolling the Tories by 20 points? Does a term exist for beating your rivals by becoming exactly like them? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, maybe we can adopt a term from fighting disciplines?

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You don’t even have to look at the US to grasp this point, nor read the scholar's seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is emphasizing it. Centrist right-wing parties is the key defense preventing the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by satisfying the “wealthy and influential” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups for ages, at the detriment of the broader population, and they never seem adequately satisfied to cease desiring to reduce support out of social welfare.

However, his study is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the Weimar-era political organization during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the British Conservatives circa 1906). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, when it starts to chase the rhetoric and superficial stances of the radical wing, it hands them the control.

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The former Prime Minister associating with an influential advisor was a clear case – but far-right flirtation has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing party narratives. Where are the old-school Conservatives, who prize stability, preservation, governing principles, the UK reputation on the world stage?

Why have we lost the progressives, who portrayed the nation in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support any of them either, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the inclusive conservative, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been marginalized, superseded by relentless demonisation: of migrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and protesters.

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And talk about positions they oppose. They characterize protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and display banners – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that total cultural alignment is the best thing a human can aspire to.

There doesn’t seem to be any natural braking system, that prompts reflection with their own values, their historical context, their original agenda. Whatever provocation the Reform leader throws for them, they follow. So, absolutely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are pulling social cohesion down with them.