Hello, and merry Christmas. I hope it is a wonderful one for you and friends and family.
Now is a time to focus on friends, family and community - not just in our immediate neighbourhoods but across the country and around the world.
This means thinking about what can be done to help those for whom Christmas is another day of struggle. In Britain, there are the millions grappling with debt, with uncertainty about their jobs or hours in zero-hours contracts. Families and individuals are being hit-hard by savage and random benefit sanctions that have left them penniless. Former public servants have been left hunting for employment after the essential services in which they worked were cut.
Across the world, we turn our thoughts to the victims of Ebola in West Africa, to those suffering in war and conflict regions like Syria, Iraq and Libya - places for which we have special responsibility for past actions.
We can only thank the many people volunteering, working, donating to help deal with these problems, but it is clear that we need real, massive change, in the way our country, our world, works.
So whilst we join together as communities and families this Christmas, let us also think about what the power of that togetherness and compassion could achieve for the world in 2015 if politics was put to the purpose it was designed for: delivering for the common good and guaranteeing a decent life for all. That’s what the Greens want to achieve in 2015 and we hope you’ll join with us in sharing that vision.
Thank you and have a very merry, and restful Christmas.