Thread by @MattChorley

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 1 “He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice. Gonna find out if you’re naughty or prepared to vote for a compromise deal which leave us unable to unilaterally leave the Irish backstop.” #PoliticalAdventCalendar

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 2: “Ho Ho Ho! And have you been a good girl this year?” Santa asked. “I should have come down here with a bat and smashed your face in,” Kate replied. “F*** off.”

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 3: Andrew Bridgen still can’t believe it’s not Christmas yet after writing 48 letters to Santa.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 4: Jeremy Corbyn calls on Santa to "step aside" so he can give out all of the free gifts instead

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 5: Geoffrey Cox is told to publish his confidential letter to Santa in full, in which he reveals his wish to one day play Hamlet.

PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 6: Jeremy Corbyn faces questions about what he wore to Labour's Christmas fancy dress party. "I was a present but not involved."

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 7: Parliament's Nativity is cancelled after failing to find any wise men. Or wise women. Or anyone who has got a bloody clue what to do.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 8: Snow White rocked by the resignation of Grumpy but vows to press ahead with the job of cleaning up the mess left for her anyway.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 9: Snow White rocked by the resignation of a junior aide to Dopey but vows to press ahead with the job of cleaning up the mess left for her anyway.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 10: Chocolate and cardboard fly everywhere as half the cabinet scramble to be the one to get into the door to No10.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 11: Theresa May repeatedly insists she will not change her policy on Christmas crackers, before deciding to pull it at the last minute.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 12: Sir Graham Brady finally gets round to opening his Christmas cards, and finds they are not all Christmas cards.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 13: Jeremy Corbyn refuses to watch Home Alone, Elf or Die Hard but denies being anti-cinematic.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 14: “There’s no way we’ll get all of this delivered before Christmas,” says Santa. “Let’s just do nothing for a month and then come back to it in early January.”

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 15: Lembit Opik dressed as a snowcovered Big Ben clock tower. Not the whole thing. The bell end

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 16: Furious that Theresa May didn’t win #strictly, No10’s Gavin Barwell starts plotting to rerun the vote.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 17: Bad news for the Brexiteers after failing to win Sports Personality of the Year, despite the likes of Boris Johnson, David Davis, Dominic Raab and Esther McVey running away at a speed that would make Mo Farah blush.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 18: At the Christmas party Jeremy Corbyn refuses to play pin the tail on the donkey and instead insists on charades.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 19: Sajid Javid is making a list, he's checking it twice. He's going to find out who's foreign or nice.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 20: Parliament's version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is cancelled, after Grumpy pulls out because Andrea Leadsom asked him to apologise.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 21: Disappointment for one teenager who asked Santa for a massive drone capable of causing travel chaos, and wakes to find Chris Grayling in his stocking.

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 22
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed

The little Lord Jezza lay down His sweet head

The stars in the sky look down where He lay

The little Lord Jezza is committed to taking Britain out of the EU come what may

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 23:

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
“Are these the morons who ruined Christmas?”

#PoliticalAdventCalendar Day 24 After a long-running farce which caused panic and anger and threatened to ruin Christmas, Theresa May admits: “There is always a possibility that there may not have been any genuine Brexit activity in the first place”

Merry Christmas one and all