Reflections on the year

2015.

The year we walked with giants.

After polls predicted a close race and another five years of coalition (potentially with Miliband the SNP at the helm) we emerged victorious. We broke the rule that says a sitting Government cannot gain seats and delivered our first majority government in almost two decades. It was a moment of perfect joy when the results came rolling in showing the scale of Labour's woes and the shape of our victory.

That however is not the end of the story.

We've seen cracks in our party. Deep divisions have already begun over the EU, the proposed tax credits changes damaged our image as being the party of hard working people and despite having only a twelve seat majority we have adopted - to quote a good friend of mine - the typical Tory attitude of complacency which usually ends in chaos and defeat.

Even now we skirt by largely on the incompetence of the opposition, with the press being too distracted by them feasting on themselves to notice that we are not in a much better state.

But as was said to me yesterday, 2015 is merely the foundation for 2016. We have a real chance to change things. We have a real chance to become the single party of Government for an entire generation provided we take a step back and work together for the good of the nation - regardless of our own beliefs as to whether that good is served in or out of the EU or with George or Boris as our next leader.

We are the natural party of Government and let 2016 be the year the nation rediscovers that fact.

God Bless you all and Have a Happy New Year.