On various occasions when Conservative leaders have appeared moderately rational outwardly – and different periods where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their base. Currently, it's far from such a scenario. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she addressed her conference, while she presented the provocative rhetoric of migrant-baiting she assumed they wanted.
The issue wasn't that they’d all awakened with a renewed sense of humanity; rather they lacked faith she’d ever be in a position to implement it. In practice, a substitute. The party dislikes such approaches. An influential party member reportedly described it as a “themed procession”: boisterous, energetic, but ultimately a farewell.
Certain members are taking renewed consideration at Robert Jenrick, who was a firm rejection at the start of the night – but now it’s the end, and rivals has withdrawn. Another group is generating a buzz around Katie Lam, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who looks like a Shires Tory while wallpapering her socials with anti-migrant content.
Is she poised as the standard-bearer to beat back the rival party, now surpassing the Tories by a significant margin? Does a term exist for beating your rivals by mirroring their stance? Moreover, should one not exist, perhaps we might borrow one from fighting disciplines?
One need not look at the US to know this, or reference a prominent academic's influential work, his analysis of political systems: every one of your synapses is shouting it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the radical elements.
His research conclusion is that representative governments persist by keeping the “wealthy and influential” happy. I have reservations as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been indulging the propertied and powerful for decades, at the detriment of the broader population, and they never seem sufficiently content to cease desiring to reduce support out of public assistance.
Yet his research goes beyond conjecture, it’s an archival deep dive into the Weimar-era political organization during the Weimar Republic (along with the UK Tories circa 1906). Once centrist parties loses its confidence, as it begins to chase the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it cedes the steering wheel.
A key figure aligning with Steve Bannon was a notable instance – but radical alignment has become so obvious now as to obliterate any other Conservative messages. What happened to the old-school Conservatives, who prize predictability, tradition, legal frameworks, the UK reputation on the global scene?
Where did they go the reformers, who defined the nation in terms of powerhouses, not volatile situations? Don’t get me wrong, I had reservations regarding either faction either, but it's remarkably noticeable how these ideologies – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been eliminated, in favour of constant vilification: of newcomers, religious groups, welfare recipients and activists.
Emphasizing what they cannot stand for any more. They characterize demonstrations by older demonstrators as “festivals of animosity” and use flags – British flags, patriotic icons, anything with a vibrant national tones – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that total cultural alignment is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.
We observe an absence of any built-in restraint, that prompts reflection with their own values, their own hinterland, their original agenda. Each incentive Nigel Farage presents to them, they pursue. Therefore, no, there's no pleasure to see their disintegration. They’re taking democratic norms along in their decline.
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