Enjoying this Implosion of the Tories? That's Comprehensible – But Completely Wrong
On various occasions when party chiefs have appeared almost sensible outwardly – and alternate phases where they have come across as wildly irrational, yet remained popular by their base. This is not either of those times. A leading Tory left the crowd unmoved when she spoke at her conference, despite she offered the red meat of migrant-baiting she thought they wanted.
The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a renewed sense of humanity; more that they lacked faith she’d ever be able to deliver it. In practice, an imitation. Tories hate that. An influential party member apparently called it a “New Orleans funeral”: noisy, animated, but nonetheless a farewell.
Coming Developments for this Party That Can Reasonably Claim to Make for Itself as the Most Historically Successful Political Organization in Modern Times?
Certain members are taking renewed consideration at a particular MP, who was a hard “no” at the beginning – but now it’s the end, and other candidates has left. Another group is generating a interest around Katie Lam, a 34-year-old MP of the 2024 intake, who looks like a Shires Tory while saturating her online profiles with border-control messaging.
Is she poised as the figurehead to beat back opposition forces, now outpolling the Conservatives by 20 points? Does a term exist for overcoming competitors by adopting their policies? And, should one not exist, maybe we can adopt a term from fighting disciplines?
When Finding Satisfaction In Any of This, in a Downfall Observation Way, in a Serves-Them-Right-for-Austerity Way, That Is Understandable – However Totally Misguided
One need not examine America to understand this, or reference a prominent academic's groundbreaking study, his analysis of political systems: your entire mental framework is screaming it. Centrist right-wing parties is the essential firewall preventing the far right.
His research conclusion is that democracies survive by satisfying the “elite classes” happy. I have reservations as an guiding tenet. It seems as though we’ve been keeping the propertied and powerful for ages, at the expense of the broader population, and they rarely appear sufficiently content to cease desiring to take a bite out of disability benefits.
However, his study is not speculation, it’s an thorough historical examination into the pre-Nazi German National People’s Party during the pre-war period (combined with the British Conservatives in that historical context). Once centrist parties falters in conviction, when it starts to pursue the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it hands them the steering wheel.
We Saw Comparable Behavior During the Brexit Years
Boris Johnson cosying up to an influential advisor was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so pronounced now as to eliminate competing Conservative messages. Where are the old-school Conservatives, who treasure continuity, conservation, governing principles, the national prestige on the world stage?
Where did they go the progressives, who portrayed the country in terms of growth centers, not powder kegs? Let me emphasize, I had reservations regarding either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how such perspectives – the one nation Tory, the reformist element – have been eliminated, superseded by relentless demonisation: of immigrants, religious groups, benefit claimants and protesters.
Appear at Podiums to Themes Resembling the Opening Credits to the Television Drama
While discussing what they cannot stand for any more. They describe protests by 75-year-old pacifists as “festivals of animosity” and employ symbols – British flags, Saint George’s flags, anything with a bold patriotic hues – as an open challenge to those questioning that being British through and through is the ultimate achievement a person could possibly be.
There doesn’t seem to be any natural braking system, where they check back in with their own values, their own hinterland, their own plan. Whatever provocation the political figure offers them, they pursue. Consequently, absolutely not, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They are dragging civil society into the abyss.
