Taking Pleasure In this Downfall of the Tories? It's Comprehensible – But Totally Wrong
On various occasions when Conservative leaders have seemed reasonably coherent on the surface – and other moments where they have sounded completely unhinged, yet were still adored by party loyalists. This is not either of those times. One prominent Conservative failed to inspire attendees when she spoke at her conference, even as she presented the divisive talking points of anti-immigration sentiment she assumed they wanted.
The issue wasn't that they’d all arisen with a fresh awareness of humanity; instead they lacked faith she’d ever be able to deliver it. Effectively, fake vegan meat. The party dislikes such approaches. One senior Conservative reportedly described it as a “New Orleans funeral”: boisterous, energetic, but nonetheless a parting.
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Certain members are taking renewed consideration at a particular MP, who was a definite refusal at the start of the night – but with proceedings winding down, and everyone else has withdrawn. Others are creating a interest around a newer MP, a young parliamentarian of the latest cohort, who appears as a countryside-based politician while saturating her socials with immigration-critical posts.
Could she be the figurehead to beat back opposition forces, now surpassing the Conservatives by a substantial lead? Is there a word for overcoming competitors by mirroring their stance? Moreover, should one not exist, maybe we can borrow one from combat sports?
Should You Take Pleasure In Such Events, in a Downfall Observation Way, in a Just-Deserts Way, It's Comprehensible – But Totally Misguided
One need not examine America to understand this, or consult Daniel Ziblatt’s seminal 2017 book, the historical examination: all your cognitive processes is shouting it. The mainstream right is the essential firewall against the radical elements.
Ziblatt’s thesis is that political systems endure by keeping the “propertied and powerful” happy. Personally, I question this as an organising principle. One gets the impression as though we’ve been catering to the affluent and connected over generations, at the expense of other citizens, and they don't typically become adequately satisfied to stop wanting to take a bite out of social welfare.
But his analysis isn’t a hunch, it’s an archival deep dive into the historical German conservative group during the pre-war period (combined with the UK Tories around the early 1900s). When the mainstream right falters in conviction, if it commences to adopt the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the extremist elements, it transfers the direction.
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The former Prime Minister associating with Steve Bannon was one particularly egregious example – but extremist sympathies has become so evident now as to overshadow all remaining party narratives. Whatever became of the traditional Tories, who prize predictability, preservation, governing principles, the pride of Britain on the world stage?
Where did they go the reformers, who portrayed the United Kingdom in terms of economic engines, not powder kegs? Let me emphasize, I didn't particularly support either faction either, but the contrast is dramatic how these ideologies – the broad-church approach, the modernizing wing – have been marginalized, replaced by ongoing scapegoating: of immigrants, Islamic communities, social support users and activists.
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While discussing positions they oppose. They portray protests by older demonstrators as “displays of hostility” and employ symbols – union flags, English symbols, all objects bearing a splash of matadorial colour – as an direct confrontation to those questioning that complete national identity is the highest ideal a person could possibly be.
There appears to be no any built-in restraint, encouraging reassessment with core principles, their traditional foundations, their own plan. Each incentive the political figure presents to them, they’ll chase. Therefore, absolutely not, it’s not fun to see their disintegration. They’re taking civil society along in their decline.
