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There have been times when Conservative leaders have sounded moderately rational on the surface – and different periods where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their party. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch didn't energize the audience when she addressed her conference, even as she presented the provocative rhetoric of anti-immigration sentiment she believed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all arisen with a revived feeling of humanity; instead they didn’t believe she’d ever be in a position to implement it. In practice, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. An influential party member was said to label it a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, energetic, but still a farewell.

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A faction is giving renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and other candidates has left. Some are fostering a excitement around a rising star, a young parliamentarian of the 2024 intake, who looks like a countryside-based politician while saturating her social media with anti-migrant content.

Might she become the figurehead to beat back Reform, now outpolling the Conservatives by 20 points? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Furthermore, if there isn’t, perhaps we might use an expression from martial arts?

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One need not consider overseas examples to know this, or consult a prominent academic's influential work, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is emphasizing it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the extremist factions.

The central argument is that representative governments persist by appeasing the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. One gets the impression as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful over generations, at the detriment of the broader population, and they never seem quite happy enough to cease desiring to take a bite out of social welfare.

Yet his research is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (combined with the England's ruling party in that historical context). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, if it commences to pursue the buzzwords and superficial stances of the radical wing, it hands them the control.

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A key figure cosying up to an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but far-right flirtation has become so pronounced now as to obliterate any other party narratives. Where are the old-school Conservatives, who value predictability, preservation, governing principles, the national prestige on the global scene?

Why have we lost the reformers, who described the country in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? To be clear, I had reservations regarding both groups as well, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, replaced by constant vilification: of newcomers, Muslims, welfare recipients and demonstrators.

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Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize rallies by older demonstrators as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an clear provocation to individuals doubting that being British through and through is the highest ideal a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, encouraging reassessment with fundamental beliefs, their own hinterland, their own plan. Whatever provocation the political figure presents to them, they pursue. Consequently, no, it isn't enjoyable to watch them implode. They are pulling civil society down with them.