The beautifully painted winning design of my 2020 Christmas Card competition is also the most apposite of all in the last decade. There were 2 very good runner up designs too from finalists from several different primary and secondary school pupils.
Very few people want Lockdown 2 and all the restrictions that go with it - but I was persuaded that even in Tier1 Gloucestershire we have to accept it temporarily. Here is my speech:
All MPs get brutally attacked on social media but I’ve had more angry and abusive messages on Free School Meals than on anything else over the last decade, which shows how important it is to so many constituents and perhaps how much pent up frustration there is.
This pandemic has forced the government to take deeply unconservative action in restricting civil and individual liberties, nationalising huge chunks of private sector salaries and several industries: preventing spectators from watching sport except digitally, spending and borrowing vast sums of