If PANORAMA were Father Christmas...

TO CHIEF MINISTER FABIAN PICARDO: The song 'Halfway to Paradise' (and as the song says 'so near, yet so far away).

TO INDEPENDENT MEMBER LAWRENCE LLAMAS: A political map, so that he knows where he is going, courtesy of Damon Bossino.

TO ELIOTT PHILLIPS: A question - Am I or am I not the Leader of the Opposition?

TO GSD MEMBER ROY CLINTON: A savings bank.

TO MINISTER JOE BOSSANO: Who else but Roy Clinton.

TO COMPANIES HOUSE: A course in public relations and a two-minute company, courtesy of the French National Assembly.

TO DR JOHN CORTES: A flower pot.

TO COMMISSIONER OF POLICE EDDIE YOME: A dictionary to check the meaning of 'Conflict of Interest', so that he can stop giving the RGP a bad name.

TO DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER DR JOSEPH GARCIA: A video of the record-breaking standing ovation at a party conference in UK.

TO COMMANDER BRITISH FORCES WALLIKER: A runway road free of all traffic.

TO MINISTER NEIL COSTA: An appointments system for the PCC.

TO GSD MEMBER EDWIN REYES: Retirement.

TO INDEPENDENT MEMBER MARLENE HASSAN NAHON: A political party.

TO THE BUILDERS WHO DETECTED THAT THE BUILDINGS FOR CALPE HOUSE WERE RIDDLED WITH ASBESTOS: A Big Thank You.

TO MINISTER SAMANTHA SACRAMENTO: A do-it-yourself house-building kit, courtesy of Action for Housing.

TO MINISTER GILBERT LICUDI: Pilot of the Year.

TO SPORTS MINISTER STEVEN LINARES: Sporting minister of any year.

TO ROBERT VASQUEZ: Student of the Year, and a belated Get Well Card.

TO GSD LEADER KEITH AZOPARDI: To take note of the wise counsel of Speaker Adolfo Canepa, himself leader of the opposition from 1988 to 1991.

TO SPEAKER ADOLFO CANEPA: Voice soothing tablets for use in heated parliamentary debates.

TO SEMI-RETIRED GSD MEMBER DANIEL FEETHAM: To be or not to be in Parliament.

TO MINISTER PAUL BALBAN: A bench.

TO GSD MEMBER TREVOR HAMMOND: A parking space.

TO MINISTER ALBERT ISOLA: A bitcoin.

TO THE GOVERNOR EDWARD DAVIS: A knighthood.

TO GIBRALTAR: Our rightful place in the British family of nations, Brexit or no Brexit.

JOKE OF THE YEAR: The newspaper headline - "The Gibraltar Literary Festival is the best in the world."

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