Imp: The point is that the Conseravitves should be a mainstream centre-right party. Their natural allies should be the CDs of Germany, the Gaullists. Yet here in the UK we have a mainstream Conservative party adopting the policies of UKIP, who if we are honest have a similar outlook to AfD and the Dutch Freedom party. Is this what we want from the UK Conservative party. If it is they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. There are huge numbers of Conservatives who voted to remain in the EU, and these millions are being ignored by their own Government, so the Government needs to be shamed until this is addressed and the Conservatives rejoin mainstream European politics.
They are a centre right mainstream party. You didn't say before that you thought they "should be" you said that historically "they were." They were pro the common market because they are pro business but the common market is not the EU and they have never been "Pro EU" until Cameron filled the ranks with Blairites like himself. In the same way as Labour were not Pro EU until Blair won and filled all those empty spots up with like minded people.
Neither of the main parties were "proEU", The Tories were Pro common market. It was the landslide of Blair that enabled Blair to change the Labour parliamentary opinion and then the Cameron takeover of the Tory party that enabled him to do the same and that is why parliament does not represent the general opinion of the country anymore. Because Blair and Cameron installed people in there that wiped out the usual spread of opinions within parties.
The Tories are no way inline with what you call conservative in the US, Germany or France. All 4 countries are vastly different in their makeup, their beliefs and so much more which is one reason why we have such problems and it is foolish to try and say that the Tories should be aligned with the CDU or even the right in France. They will share similar opinions on many things but on others will be worlds apart.
This whole premise of Tories adopting UKIP policy is crazy. The Tories are not adopting UKIP policies at all. Since Cameron they have moved way off to the left on some things and further right than UKIP on others because Cameron adopted Blairite policies. That meaning uber-capitalism with uber liberal values to cover it up.
UKIP are in no way equivalent to the Dutch Freedom Party nor AfD or Front Nacional, again vastly different parties with huge differences on many issues. It is wrong to lump them all together as racist anti-immigration parties when Wilders lot and Le Pen's lot are quite blatantly very anti immigration with racist leanings while UKIP want controlled immigration. They are anti MASS immigration. AfD seem to me to be something even nastier.
Of course within the ranks of UKIP there will be some racist element using a viable cover and certainly racist voters but you can say this of all parties. Extremism is not something you can only pin down to UKIP or its supporters. Labour has an extreme left problem visibly in its ranks and struggles with extreme muslim elements that try to get into the party. The lutfur Rahman case was one of those where people were told they must vote a certain way by Imams as it was their duty as well. The names surrounding Rahman have crept up in many other areas too where there is a suspicion that people are either not voting of their own free mind or that they aren't even voting because someone else is collecting the cards up and filling them all in for them.
That does not make a party extreme and while I will freely admit that Farage will intentionally sail close to the wind he is not racist. All parties want the votes of the extremists though whichever side or leaning they are because it is the total that counts. You don't win anything by being picking and choosing who votes for you and there are not 4 million racists in the UK that voted for UKIP!
You are right that there are millions of Conservatives that voted remain but how many? What %? How many Labour voters voted to remain? Nobody really knows.
You are wrong to say what the Conservative Party should be though. You are saying what YOU think they should be and ignoring that Cameron like Blair changed his party's parliamentary representation after lying to get the job. If anything people are happy the Tories are seemingly back to being Conservatives instead of a continuation of Blair. They haven't adopted UKIP policies though. The real Tories (if May continues the way she is) have only been in power now for 6 months. Cameron and Blair were one and the same and Cameron's Tories adopted Blairite policies not UKIP ones. UKIP economic policies were to the left of the uber capitalists.
