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The Decline and Fall of the Conservative Party


The Conservative Party is one of British history's great survivors, it morphs and mutates when it needs to into new incarnations that help to preserve it and its mission to protect the interests of Britain's elites, institutions against the threat of change from below. This was always true until now. The party that many British people see as the natural party of government is changing into a fringe far right conspiracy theorists club, with politicians like Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Liz Truss articulating far right talking points that are divorced not only from any objective reality but also from the sentiments of the mainstream of British society that the Conservative Party was historically so attuned to. This portends the end of the Tories in the next few years and a realignment of the forces in British politics.



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