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"They're the same picture."
The Tories used to be a bunch of out of touch weirdos who were obsessed with financial prudence above all else. Never giving any money to anybody. Unless they were already rich obviously
They were unpleasant for sure, but at least their political philosophy was fundamentally understandable even if it was undesirable.
This current lost are just awful for the sake of being evil. They don't have any policys, they don't have any concept of financial prudence, they're just racist. That's it at this point, that's the entirety of their political image. Racism. They're not Conservative anymore, they've managed to morph into something worse.
Edit, added a word
As it becomes more obvious that the right wing has nothing to offer ordinary people, right-wing politicians retreat into incendiary populist rhetoric. The easiest way for them to generate votes without offering anything positive is to select minority groups to blame for people's problems and to offer to oppress these minorities. It's part of how conservatism lurches towards fascism when the going gets tough.
Of course the going is only tough because the conservatives mismanage the economy. Which is hilarious in a kind of depressing way because they're supposed to be the party that is all about the economy. They essentially believe in corporate self-regulation. If the corporations will regulate themselves then the government barely even need to exist.
That ideology seems to have gone out the window. Not that was ever any good but it did at least mean that they would probably leave minority groups alone, they wouldn't be supported in any particular way, but then again no one was supported.
Of course at this point a minority group is anybody who doesn't have six figures in their bank account