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There have been times when party chiefs have seemed reasonably coherent on the surface – and different periods where they have come across as completely unhinged, yet were still adored by their party. This is not either of those times. Kemi Badenoch left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, while she presented the divisive talking points of migrant-baiting she believed 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 equipped to implement it. It was, a substitute. Conservatives despise that. A veteran Tory was said to label it a “jazz funeral”: noisy, energetic, but still a goodbye.

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Some are having renewed consideration at a particular MP, who was a firm rejection at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and everyone else has departed. Another group is generating a excitement around a rising star, a recently elected representative of the newest members, who looks like a countryside-based politician while saturating her online profiles with anti-migrant content.

Could she be the figurehead to challenge the rival party, now outpolling the Tories by a substantial lead? Can we describe for overcoming competitors by adopting their policies? Moreover, assuming no phrase fits, surely we could borrow one from martial arts?

When Finding Satisfaction In Any of This, in a Schadenfreude Way, in a Just-Deserts Way, That Is Understandable – Yet Completely Irrational

You don’t even have to look at the US to understand this, nor read Daniel Ziblatt’s groundbreaking study, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is shouting it. The mainstream right is the key defense against the radical elements.

Ziblatt’s thesis is that representative governments persist by appeasing the “wealthy and influential” happy. I’m not wild about it as an organising principle. It feels as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful over generations, at the detriment of other citizens, and they never seem quite happy enough to halt efforts to reduce support out of social welfare.

Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (combined with the England's ruling party around the early 1900s). Once centrist parties becomes uncertain, as it begins to chase the rhetoric and symbolic politics of the far right, it cedes the steering wheel.

We Saw Some of This Throughout the EU Exit Process

Boris Johnson associating with a controversial strategist was a notable instance – but far-right flirtation has become so obvious now as to eliminate competing Tory talking points. Where are the traditional Tories, who value predictability, conservation, the constitution, the pride of Britain on the international platform?

Why have we lost the progressives, who portrayed the nation in terms of powerhouses, not powder kegs? To be clear, I wasn’t wild about either faction too, but it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the broad-church approach, the reformist element – have been eliminated, replaced by relentless demonisation: of migrants, Islamic communities, social support users and protesters.

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While discussing positions they oppose. They characterize rallies by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and display banners – national emblems, English symbols, all objects bearing a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that being British through and through is the best thing a individual might attain.

There appears to be no any natural braking system, where they check back in with their own values, their historical context, their stated objectives. Any stick Nigel Farage offers them, they pursue. Consequently, no, it isn't enjoyable to watch them implode. They are pulling democratic norms down with them.