Enjoying the Collapse of the Tories? It's Comprehensible – Yet Totally Incorrect

On various occasions when Tory figureheads have seemed almost sensible superficially – and other moments where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet were still adored by their base. We are not in such a scenario. Kemi Badenoch failed to inspire attendees when she presented to her conference, while she offered the red meat of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all woken up with a fresh awareness of humanity; instead they were skeptical she’d ever be able to follow through. Effectively, a substitute. Tories hate that. An influential party member apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, energetic, but still a goodbye.

What Next for the Group With a Decent Case to Make for Itself as the Top-Performing Political Organization in History?

A faction is giving another squiz at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has withdrawn. Some are fostering a buzz around Katie Lam, a 34-year-old MP of the latest cohort, who appears as a countryside-based politician while saturating her socials with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the figurehead to counter the rival party, now surpassing the incumbents by 20 points? Is there a word for beating your rivals by becoming exactly like them? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, perhaps we might borrow one from martial arts?

When Finding Satisfaction In Any of This, in a Schadenfreude Way, in a Just-Deserts Way, One Can See Why – Yet Completely Irrational

You don’t even have to consider overseas examples to understand this, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: every one of your synapses is screaming it. Moderate conservatism is the essential firewall preventing the radical elements.

The central argument is that democracies survive by appeasing the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an guiding tenet. It feels as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful for ages, at the detriment of everyone else, and they rarely appear quite happy enough to stop wanting to make cuts out of disability benefits.

However, his study is not speculation, it’s an comprehensive document review into the historical German conservative group during the pre-war period (along with the British Conservatives around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, if it commences to adopt the rhetoric and superficial stances of the far right, it cedes the steering wheel.

There Were Examples Some of This Throughout the EU Exit Process

Boris Johnson associating with Steve Bannon was a clear case – but far-right flirtation has become so evident now as to obliterate any other Tory talking points. Whatever became of the old-school Conservatives, who prize continuity, preservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

What happened to the reformers, who defined the country in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about any of them either, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, in favour of relentless demonisation: of immigrants, religious groups, social support users and demonstrators.

They Walk On Stage to Themes Resembling the Theme Tune to the Television Drama

While discussing positions they oppose. They portray rallies by elderly peace activists as “carnivals of hatred” and display banners – British flags, English symbols, any item featuring a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to anyone who doesn’t think that being British through and through is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.

There appears to be no any inherent moderation, encouraging reassessment with their own values, their traditional foundations, their original agenda. Any stick the political figure presents to them, they follow. Therefore, no, there's no pleasure to watch them implode. They are dragging civil society down with them.