If I were to be pretentious about it, I'd say that Conservatism is the soil in which radicalism is nurtured.
Maybe it requires a further element, to really trigger it, though. A disconnect between being raised with excessively conservative values and the real-world circumstances the person trying to live up to those values finds themselves in. That's what seems to drive some Muslim youth in the West a bit crazy. And probably quite a few Christians also.
So I guess you prefer weak leaders, weak government, policy that throws its hands up "there is nothing we can do"!!!!
OMG ... we
cant stop the migrant boat gangs that are bringing in migrants because of this law and that law.. our hands are tied!! We are weak hearted leaders and will not do anything for fear of backlash from influencers on social media and late night satirical shows!
Starmer has just revealed he has absolutely no idea how to stop the boats
There are your weak leaders.
If I were were the UK PM, I would say fuck that and send the Royal Navy to intercept the boats, deport the illegal entry attempts, and jail the boat captains. The migrant boat would then be scuttled.
Starmer's a right-wing power-worshipper. I hate the guy. He's in the wrong Party - he's a Tory. The Labour party has always been somewhat right-wing (my parents were expelled from it before I was born, for being left-wing), but I think it's beyond saving now, as it's been entirely captured by Starmer and his mob of affluent technocrat mercenaries-for-the-rich. Conservatives, all of them.
His primary characteristic is a tendency to attack the vulnerable (such as refugees, but also the disabled or sick) while embarrassingly fawning over the rich and powerful (like his bowing before Trump or his acceptance of free gifts from various billionaires). I have some theories as to why he's like that, in terms of his personal psychology. I suspect he's as much driven by his personal demons as is Trump.
I don't care that much about 'stopping the boats' (other than the fact it's an unsafe way to reach the country and people have, as a consequence, drowned - they make up a small proportion of immigration numbers, and are largely driven by the disruption caused by UK and US foreign adventures, past and still ongoing, and are a consequence of the deliberate choice to not provide safe routes to claim asylum here, Brexit being a part of the problem).
Immigration in general is neither a good nor bad thing, it's just a fact of life that needs to be managed and somehow coped with, a consequence of history, particularly the history of imperialism, and the global problems it has caused. (It's doubtless going to increase hugely if climate change isn't addressed.)
The obsession with 'stop the boats' is mostly a massive distraction orchestrated by our vile right-wing media that is largely concerned with doing whatever it believes will further the interests of the plutocrats who own it and tell it what to say (plus, maybe, sadly, British people are just a bit racist, like everyone - I'm generally pretty disenchanted with human nature, which is why I think we probably don't have much of a future, as a species).
Starmer is, of course, desperate to keep those plutocrats happy, because, as you correctly say, he's a weak leader (much like Trump).
[Edit] I mean, I'm sure I'd be a
terrible leader, because I'm not sure what I believe about anything. I greatly dislike both liberals and conservatives, and, while I don't
hate the left (note to Americans - liberals are not the left), I don't really agree with them either, I think they are just honestly mistaken.
Mostly I just think we are all doomed because human nature is so fundamentally flawed, and I doubt that would work as a pitch to the electorate.
But then, I'm not competing frantically to get the job, as Starmer did, nor expecting the huge paycheque (essentially, for life, given all the perks and consequent benefits it entails) that goes with it.