Finding Amusement In the Collapse of the Conservative Party? It's Comprehensible – Yet Completely Incorrect

Throughout history when Conservative leaders have sounded almost sensible on the surface – and alternate phases where they have sounded animal crackers, yet remained popular by their base. We are not in such a scenario. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, despite she threw out the divisive talking points of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.

It’s not so much that they’d all arisen with a renewed sense of humanity; rather they didn’t believe she’d ever be able to deliver it. Effectively, fake vegan meat. Tories hate that. An influential party member reportedly described it as a “jazz funeral”: noisy, energetic, but nonetheless a goodbye.

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A faction is giving another squiz at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but with proceedings winding down, and rivals has withdrawn. Another group is generating a interest around a newer MP, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who appears as a Shires Tory while saturating her social media with border-control messaging.

Might she become the standard-bearer to beat back opposition forces, now surpassing the Conservatives by a significant margin? Does a term exist for overcoming competitors by becoming exactly like them? Furthermore, assuming no phrase fits, perhaps we might borrow one from fighting disciplines?

When Finding Satisfaction In These Developments, in a Downfall Observation Way, in a Consequence-Based Way, That Is Understandable – Yet Absolutely Bananas

One need not consider overseas examples to grasp this point, or reference a prominent academic's influential work, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy: all your cognitive processes is emphasizing it. Centrist right-wing parties is the crucial barrier against the far right.

The central argument is that political systems endure by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. I have reservations as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful for ages, at the detriment of the broader population, and they never seem quite happy enough to cease desiring to take a bite out of disability benefits.

Yet his research isn’t a hunch, it’s an comprehensive document review into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (in parallel to the British Conservatives around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right loses its confidence, when it starts to adopt the rhetoric and gesture-based policies of the far right, it hands them the steering wheel.

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Boris Johnson aligning with Steve Bannon was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to overshadow all remaining Tory talking points. Where are the old-school Conservatives, who prize stability, tradition, the constitution, the national prestige on the global scene?

What happened to the modernisers, who portrayed the nation in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t wild about both groups too, but it’s absolutely striking how such perspectives – the broad-church approach, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been marginalized, superseded by ongoing scapegoating: of migrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and demonstrators.

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And talk about what they cannot stand for any more. They portray demonstrations by elderly peace activists as “carnivals of hatred” and employ symbols – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an clear provocation to those questioning that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a human can aspire to.

There doesn’t seem to be any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with core principles, their historical context, their own plan. Whatever provocation Nigel Farage offers them, they follow. Consequently, no, it isn't enjoyable to see their disintegration. They are pulling social cohesion into the abyss.