Never has so much damage been caused by so few in such a short time. Let the battle begin - Carole Malone

I’m talking about Reeves and Starmer, obviously.

Yes, my look back on 2025 is that it was the year in which our once great country was wrecked by a bunch of blundering shysters who lied their way into power, and once they got it, it became blindingly obvious they didn’t have the vaguest clue what to do.

Starmer and Co had no plan and barely a brain cell between them, which is why on their watch immigration is now dangerously out of control, we have a £3trillion debt, growth is at a standstill, and there are millions languishing on benefits with no intention of ever working again.

This is the Government that has devastated businesses in order to fund the lifestyles of the feckless and the workshy.

It’s also the Government that has distinguished itself by lying to the British people at every turn and has made clear it cares more about the rights of migrants and foreign criminals than it does about its own people.

We have a Prime Minister who will sell out his beliefs, his principles – and us – in order to hang onto a job he can’t do. We have a Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, who literally can’t add up and is to the economy what Eddie the Eagle was to Olympic skiing.

We have a justice minister, David Lammy, who’s as thick as mince and wants to make reparations to every black person in Britain for historic injustices of the slave trade, even though it was Britain who ended it, and there’s no one alive today who was ever part of it.

We had a housing minister, Angela Rayner, who knew so little about housing that she didn’t know she had to pay stamp duty.

I could go on, but as we’ve all lived through the pain of Labour’s lunacy, I don’t have to.

Do I think next year’s going to be any better? No, not even if Andy Burnham gets to be PM. Why? Because Burham has twice stood for the top job and got nowhere for the simple reason he’s too bland, too indecisive, too lacklustre and is just not a leader. Sound familiar?

The only reason he looks slightly better than Starmer does now is that he’s up against a bloke who’s even more lacklustre than he is, and he hasn’t had the chance to cock up yet.

Bottom line: Labour shouldn’t be in power. It has proved in a miraculously short time that it has no idea how to govern, and if left to serve out its full term it will, without doubt, bankrupt this country.

What we need in 2026 is to see the beginning of whatever political moves it will take to get them kicked out.

It’s no exaggeration to say that a revolution is what’s needed now, and I see the seeds of that being sown every day. I see lifelong Labour voters, people who just two years ago would rather have stuck pins in their eyes than vote Tory or Reform, are now ready to do it because they know that the Labour party they once knew and loved is dead in the water. They know that never again can it be trusted with their lives.

So, I hope 2026 will be the year we hear more talk of a Reform/ Tory coalition. I want it to be the year plans are made (not by Labour, obviously, because it's incapable) but by whoever is coming next to help Britain scramble back up onto its feet.

I want to know there’s a government coming that listens to and understands the needs and fears of the British people, a government that isn’t cowed by woke and one that will take on the Islamists who want to destroy the culture and the values of this once great country.

I want a leader who isn’t ruled by radical factions of his own party, and I want a Prime Minister with courage, conviction and one who knows the difference between a man and a woman.

Is it a pipe dream? I hope not….

Let me finish by saying it’s been wonderful talking with you all this year. I feel like we’ve all been sharing the pain and bearing the burden together.

So, let’s do it all again next year and try to have some laughs while we’re at it. Happy 2026!!