Quote of the day 12th December 2025

"It takes a lot to change my mind, but enough is enough.

"I'm ending a lifetime of support for my beloved Labour party."

"This nightmarish totalitarian rabble has done more damage to our country than Margaret Thatcher and the Luftwaffe put together."

"My wife is completely apolitical and this is the first government she has ever truly loathed. Was it compulsory digital ID that sent her over the edge? The end of trial by jury? The destruction of the High Street with national insurance hikes for employers? The fact that you have more chance of seeing Santa Claus than your local GP this Christmas?

No, it was it's carefully planned destruction of the countryside."

"Her parents were farmers as is her brother and she comes from a long line of people whose only real crime is minding their own business and supplying the country with food every night."


Extracts from a "Writers Notebook" piece by Mark Millar in the Christmas 2025 issue of The Spectator.

For the avoidance of doubt, I don't share Mark Millar's view of Margaret Thatcher. That makes it all the more remarkable that a former lifelong Labour member up to this year like Mark, his lifelong apolitical wife and I as a lifelong Conservative, are all fed up with the present government for remarkably similar reasons. 

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