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The traditional Conservative* things like small state, de-regulation, free trade and a focus on the economy have all been torched by Boris "fuck business" Johnson, the TCA, Truss and then Sunak burning down the university sector (one of our key exports in a falling export sector).
The UK has failed to secure it's borders for what, the sixth time now, due to lack of state capacity to perform the inspections, and is also currently an outlier in Europe with it's 180 day visa waiver, which again is a reflection of a lack of state capacity to stamp people in and out again.
Choices made by the Tories (largely, but not exclusively around the type of Brexit they pursued) have lead to an increase in civil servants (as jobs done by Brussels now have to be done by the UK), and yet there is still a requirement for between 50-75,000 more civil servants if the UK wanted to meet it's legal requirements around border security.
Which I suspect means that the ground the right has to fight on that is least shaky is "brown people - don't you just hate them?" And I think that's going to find a ceiling - or maybe I just really hope it will.
Talking to people on another forum that literally venerate Tommy Robinson (a man whose world view my Grandfather and his brothers literally fought against) is extremely depressing however -but they're squarely in the white, male, over 50 with barely any education demographic, and that's finite.
*Other than the racism and endemic corruption that is