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Throughout history when Conservative leaders have sounded reasonably coherent outwardly – and alternate phases where they have sounded animal crackers, yet were still adored by party loyalists. We are not in either of those times. Kemi Badenoch left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, despite she presented the divisive talking points of border-focused rhetoric she thought they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be equipped to implement it. It was, an imitation. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory reportedly described it as a “New Orleans funeral”: loud, animated, but still a parting.

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A faction is giving another squiz at one contender, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and rivals has withdrawn. Some are fostering a buzz around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the newest members, who looks like a countryside-based politician while filling her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the leader to challenge opposition forces, now outpolling the Tories by a substantial lead? Is there a word for defeating opponents 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 examine America to grasp this point, nor read a prominent academic's seminal 2017 book, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the crucial barrier preventing the radical elements.

His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been keeping the affluent and connected for ages, at the expense of the broader population, and they don't typically become quite happy enough to stop wanting to make cuts out of public assistance.

But his analysis is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (along with the England's ruling party around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, as it begins to adopt the buzzwords and gesture-based policies of the far right, it cedes the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister aligning with an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but radical alignment has become so obvious now as to overshadow all remaining Conservative messages. Where are the established party members, who prize continuity, conservation, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the global scene?

Where did they go the progressives, who defined the nation in terms of powerhouses, not tension-filled environments? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the inclusive conservative, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, superseded by relentless demonisation: of newcomers, Islamic communities, social support users and activists.

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While discussing positions they oppose. They portray demonstrations by elderly peace activists as “festivals of animosity” and use flags – national emblems, English symbols, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to those questioning that complete national identity is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with fundamental beliefs, their traditional foundations, their own plan. Each incentive Nigel Farage throws for them, they’ll chase. Therefore, definitely not, there's no pleasure to watch them implode. They’re taking social cohesion along in their decline.