Finding Amusement In the Downfall of the Conservative Party? That's Comprehensible – Yet Totally Incorrect

On various occasions when Tory figureheads have seemed reasonably coherent superficially – and different periods where they have sounded wildly irrational, yet were still adored by their party. This is not either of those times. Kemi Badenoch didn't energize the audience when she spoke at her conference, while she presented the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.

The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be in a position to deliver it. In practice, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “themed procession”: loud, animated, but nonetheless a farewell.

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Certain members are taking another squiz at one contender, who was a definite refusal at the outset – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has left. Some are fostering a interest around a rising star, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who presents as a traditional Conservative while filling her socials with immigration-critical posts.

Might she become the figurehead to counter the rival party, now surpassing the incumbents by 20 points? Does a term exist for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? And, if there isn’t, perhaps we might borrow one from martial arts?

When Finding Satisfaction In These Developments, in a How-the-Mighty-Are-Fallen Way, in a Just-Deserts Way, It's Comprehensible – However Totally Misguided

You don’t even have to consider overseas examples to know this, or reference the scholar's influential work, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the key defense against the extremist factions.

The central argument is that democracies survive by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an fundamental rule. It seems as though we’ve been indulging the privileged groups for decades, at the expense of everyone else, and they rarely appear adequately satisfied to cease desiring to take a bite out of public assistance.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (along with the UK Tories in that historical context). As moderate conservatism becomes uncertain, as it begins to adopt the buzzwords and superficial stances of the radical wing, it transfers the steering wheel.

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A key figure cosying up to Steve Bannon was a clear case – but extremist sympathies has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other party narratives. Whatever became of the established party members, who value predictability, tradition, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the international platform?

What happened to the modernisers, who defined the nation in terms of growth centers, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I didn't particularly support either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the modernizing wing – have been eliminated, replaced by constant vilification: of immigrants, Islamic communities, social support users and activists.

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Emphasizing positions they oppose. They describe protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “displays of hostility” and employ symbols – union flags, patriotic icons, anything with a splash of matadorial colour – as an open challenge to those questioning that complete national identity is the ultimate achievement a individual might attain.

We observe an absence of any inherent moderation, encouraging reassessment with core principles, their own hinterland, their own plan. Each incentive the political figure presents to them, they’ll chase. Therefore, definitely not, there's no pleasure to observe their collapse. They are dragging democratic norms along in their decline.

Megan Owens
Megan Owens

A passionate historian and travel writer with expertise in ancient Roman culture and Mediterranean destinations.