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Merry Christmas to you all

The LDV team wishes all of you the most peaceful, healthy, happy festive time.

We send our love and support to those of you who face Christmas for the first time without someone you love. A loss that is acute every day can feel especially intolerable amongst all the jollity.

We should also think of those whose lives are a constant struggle with poverty and those who put so much time and effort into helping them. I’m thinking of those at welfare rights organisations and charities who prepare and represent them at appeals, of the food bank volunteers who try to make …

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Merry Christmas to all our readers

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Christmas is coming, draw tickets need to be sent back!

Vince Cable and Father ChristmasThe Liberal Democrat Christmas Draw is a much-loved and lucrative fund-raising institution for the party. From their organising nexus in Surrey, the Christmas Draw elves work hard all year to round up great prizes and send out ticket books by the sleigh load.

The top prize this year is a holiday voucher for £2000! There are 39 other wonderful prizes, such as half a case of champagne, which the elves will endeavour to get to winners before Christmas.

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A very Merry Christmas to you all

christmasWherever you are, whatever you are doing, we wish you the happiest and most peaceful of days, a Festive Season where you can relax and recharge your batteries and the space away from the usual hustle and bustle to let you make plans for what you want to achieve next year.

I make no apologies for recycling this picture from last year. Partly because Mary Reid is brilliant at making this sort of stuff and I am not and partly because I love seeing the same things at Christmas. Unpacking the box …

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