Finding Amusement In this Implosion of the Tories? It's Comprehensible – Yet Totally Incorrect

There have been times when party chiefs have seemed almost sensible superficially – and other moments where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet remained popular by party loyalists. We are not in such a scenario. One prominent Conservative left the crowd unmoved when she presented to her conference, while she presented the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

This wasn't primarily that they’d all awakened with a fresh awareness of humanity; more that they didn’t believe she’d ever be equipped to implement it. In practice, an imitation. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: boisterous, animated, but ultimately a farewell.

What Next for the Group With a Decent Case to Make for Itself as the Most Historically Successful Governing Force in History?

Some are having renewed consideration at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the outset – but now it’s the end, and rivals has departed. Some are fostering a excitement around Katie Lam, a 34-year-old MP of the newest members, who appears as a countryside-based politician while saturating her online profiles with border-control messaging.

Could she be the figurehead to beat back Reform, now surpassing the Conservatives by a substantial lead? Does a term exist for defeating opponents by mirroring their stance? Moreover, if there isn’t, perhaps we might adopt a term from martial arts?

If You’re Enjoying These Developments, in a Schadenfreude Way, in a Consequence-Based Way, It's Comprehensible – Yet Completely Irrational

One need not look at the US to understand this, nor read a prominent academic's seminal 2017 book, his analysis of political systems: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the far right.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been indulging the affluent and connected for decades, at the expense of the broader population, and they never seem quite happy enough to halt efforts to reduce support out of social welfare.

However, his study isn’t a hunch, it’s an comprehensive document review into the historical German conservative group during the interwar Germany (along with the UK Tories circa 1906). As moderate conservatism becomes uncertain, when it starts to pursue the terminology and gesture-based policies of the far right, it hands them the direction.

Previous Instances Showed Some of This Throughout the EU Exit Process

A key figure aligning with Steve Bannon was a notable instance – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Whatever became of the established party members, who value stability, preservation, the constitution, the national prestige on the global scene?

Why have we lost the progressives, who portrayed the country in terms of economic engines, not tension-filled environments? To be clear, I didn't particularly support either faction as well, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, superseded by relentless demonisation: of immigrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and demonstrators.

They Walk On Stage to Themes Resembling the Theme Tune to the Popular Series

And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They portray protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – British flags, Saint George’s flags, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to individuals doubting that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There appears to be no any built-in restraint, where they check back in with core principles, their traditional foundations, their own plan. Any stick the political figure throws for them, they’ll chase. So, absolutely not, it’s not fun to watch them implode. They’re taking civil society along in their decline.