Enjoying this Implosion of the Tories? It's Comprehensible – But Completely Incorrect
On various occasions when Tory figureheads have appeared almost sensible superficially – and other moments where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet were still adored by party loyalists. We are not in such a scenario. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she presented to her conference, even as she offered the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she believed they wanted.
It’s not so much that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be in a position to implement it. Effectively, fake vegan meat. Conservatives despise that. One senior Conservative apparently called it a “themed procession”: noisy, energetic, but still a parting.
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A faction is giving renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has withdrawn. Some are fostering a excitement around Katie Lam, a recently elected representative of the 2024 intake, who looks like a countryside-based politician while filling her social media with border-control messaging.
Could she be the figurehead to beat back Reform, now leading the incumbents by a significant margin? Can we describe for defeating opponents by becoming exactly like them? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could adopt a term from combat sports?
Should You Take Pleasure In Such Events, in a Downfall Observation Way, in a Just-Deserts Way, It's Comprehensible – However Completely Irrational
It isn't necessary to look at the US to know this, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: your entire mental framework is shouting it. Centrist right-wing parties is the key defense resisting the extremist factions.
His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by satisfying the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an organising principle. It feels as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful over generations, at the cost of other citizens, and they never seem quite happy enough to stop wanting to make cuts out of public assistance.
However, his study isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the interwar Germany (combined with the UK Tories around the early 1900s). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, when it starts to adopt the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it cedes the steering wheel.
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A key figure cosying up to an influential advisor was a clear case – but radical alignment has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing party narratives. Whatever became of the established party members, who treasure predictability, tradition, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the international platform?
Where did they go the reformers, who defined the nation in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? To be clear, I had reservations regarding either faction too, but it's remarkably noticeable how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been eliminated, replaced by constant vilification: of immigrants, Islamic communities, welfare recipients and activists.
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And talk about positions they oppose. They characterize rallies by older demonstrators as “displays of hostility” and employ symbols – British flags, English symbols, all objects bearing a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to anyone who doesn’t think that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a individual might attain.
We observe an absence of any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with fundamental beliefs, their historical context, their original agenda. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage throws for them, they’ll chase. So, absolutely not, it isn't enjoyable to observe their collapse. They’re taking social cohesion along in their decline.
