I look back on 2024, a year that started with me in almost semi-retirement, not involved in active politics, approaching my 60th birthday with my first two grandchildren on the way, and I couldn't help thinking about what this country had been, the values that it had represented, and what it was looking like today. We have been appallingly led in this country now for several decades. We are in societal decline, we are in economical decline, most people are getting poorer with every year that passes.
We are losing any sense of national identity and we are actually teaching kids at school that people like Winston Churchill, born in this palace, are bad people and that our country's history is something to be ashamed of.
It was also because I fought so hard and for so long for us to get back our independent: Brexit. Taking back control of our lives and to see that completely squandered by the Conservative Party, who frankly never believed in it but used it for electoral advantage in 2019.
The ongoing migrant crisis is an absolute outrage. Since 2018, more than 150,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats arriving in the UK. On Christmas Day, 450 migrants arrived in the UK on 11 boats.
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