If you are British, and consider yourself patriotic, and have a rudimentary understanding of how things work, the principle political opinion you should have, now, is a visceral and violent hatred of the Conservative Party.

The archaic internal arguments and personal rivalries of that filthy, corrupt organisation are being allowed to destroy The United Kingdom. And yes, that’s in part because a lot of not very well-informed people believed a bunch of extremely stupid and mendacious lies told to them by the right wing of the Conservative Party (and UKIP).

I don’t particularly like Corbyn, for a variety of reasons. But the one and only optimistic thought I’m capable of having as 2018 begins, is this: listen to the young. They know. They know that Brexit is a gigantic betrayal, of all of them, a betrayal visited upon them by the old, the closed and the conservative, by the bigoted and the ignorant. By those that have spent their indolent, entitled lives hating the inevitability of change, and who now, in their wrong-headed bitterness, seek to hurt the world and the nation that has in truth been so good to them – but not quite good enough.

“No, I haven’t seen any of them, but I know they’re everywhere.”

These were the words of a UKIP voter on the doorstep in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, expressing his view on what he sees as the central issue in Britain – asylum seekers. There has never been a single asylum seeker in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

They will have their revenge for all this, the young. It seems to me that a whole generation of kids is becoming very left-wing in its outlook, unusually so, which means that in a few years there could be some interesting lurching to the left in this country, as that generation, rightly full of contempt for its parents and forebears, becomes in its turn the centre of things: the mainstream adults, the purse-string holders, the money-makers.

Of course, we don’t know everything that will mean. But I do hope one thing: I hope it destroys the Conservative party altogether, that narrow, backward, racist, self-entitled, scum-filled cesspool of an organisation which, history will record, ruined Britain.