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Throughout history when Tory figureheads have seemed reasonably coherent superficially – and other moments where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet were still adored by their base. Currently, it's far from that situation. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she presented to her conference, while she presented the red meat of anti-immigration sentiment she believed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be in a position to implement it. It was, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: noisy, vigorous, but still a farewell.

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Certain members are taking another squiz at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Another group is generating a buzz around a rising star, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who looks like a countryside-based politician while wallpapering her socials with anti-migrant content.

Is she poised as the standard-bearer to beat back the rival party, now surpassing the Conservatives by a significant margin? Is there a word for beating your rivals by becoming exactly like them? And, should one not exist, perhaps we might use an expression from martial arts?

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It isn't necessary to examine America to know this, or consult a prominent academic's influential work, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the key defense preventing the far right.

The central argument is that political systems endure by satisfying the “elite classes” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the affluent and connected for decades, at the detriment of everyone else, and they never seem adequately satisfied to cease desiring to take a bite out of social welfare.

But his analysis goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (in parallel to the British Conservatives in that historical context). As moderate conservatism becomes uncertain, when it starts to chase the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the far right, it transfers the steering wheel.

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The former Prime Minister associating with a controversial strategist was a clear case – but far-right flirtation has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other party narratives. Whatever became of the traditional Tories, who prize continuity, preservation, the constitution, the UK reputation on the international platform?

Why have we lost the reformers, who portrayed the nation in terms of powerhouses, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I had reservations regarding any of them as well, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, superseded by relentless demonisation: of migrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and protesters.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – union flags, patriotic icons, any item featuring a vibrant national tones – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that being British through and through is the highest ideal a individual might attain.

There doesn’t seem to be any inherent moderation, that prompts reflection with their own values, their own hinterland, their own plan. Whatever provocation the Reform leader offers them, they’ll chase. Therefore, no, it’s not fun to observe their collapse. They are pulling civil society into the abyss.