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Caron Lindsay

The posts of Christmas past – Part 1

By Caron Lindsay | Mon 23rd December 2013 - 10:53 am

Remember when we used to do the Friday Five, the Divine Ms Duffett always had a section which had five posts from previous years? Well, I thought it would be good to revive the idea with a few quintets of Festive posts to amuse you.

First up, we go back to 2010. Christmas feel a few weeks after the trauma of that “tuition fees” vote. Chris White wrote quite a prescient post about what the party needed to do to recover. He’d had a conversation with someone who had resigned from the party over the issue. This was also in …

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