While we were all feeling festive and paying attention to the EU, the Conservative government were a little bit cheeky and dropped a bomb of bad news in an attempt to pre-empt a PR disaster.
It worked a bit, so here's a lovely Christmassy video highlighting all the things they didn't want us to see.
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(Created for HuffPost UK Comedy by David Schneider and Handface)
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