It's because it's become Super-Right Or Nothing. To be a moderate Tory now must be like when you're getting on with a taxi driver and he says "you and I think alike, mate" then follows it up with something massively racist.
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It begs the question what happened to all the moderate conservatives? Some of those around now were always headbangers but those like Truss and Jenrick were once pretty mainstream. Is their new brand just going with the flow or is this always what they believed and they now feel brave enough to say?
The true moderates went into boardrooms, consultancy, punditry & podcasts. And, once you remember that modern party politics is way more about self-enrichment than delivering (eww) policy for the greater good, you see why those other shameless maniacs are now jumping on the fascist bandwagon.
My mum is one of them. She'd vote for a shoe with a blue ribbon on it. There must still be others like that, doggedly always voting conservative. I guess others have gone to the Lib Dems, and some must have voted Labour...who seem very much like moderate Tory in many ways.
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