Is Duffy on Lembit's hitlist? AMs Xmas presents revealed

If you haven't bought a copy of the Big Issue Cymru Christmas special, then quite simply you should. No, it's not because it puts some money in the pockets of the homeless, but because of the words of Xmas cheer offered by some of Wales's politicians.

After wading through the tedium of the wishes of 'quality time with the family', it is possible to find a few gems amongst the cliched offerings.

Jenny Randerson, who, in what seems like an exclusive for the Big Issue, is apparently the Deputy First Minister for Wales (Acting), says 'I don't have a Welsh person of the year because I don't believe in questions like that', a view shared by Edwina Hart who doesn't have 'a Welsh person of the year, but Welsh persons'. Comrade Stalin would be proud Edwina!

Slightly more worrying is Lembit Opik's choice of favourite Welsh person, the Nefyn-born singer Duffy now probably fears she is next on his hitlist, what is this eligible spinster's plan to fend off the advances of the most eligible batchelor in Wales? Plea for Mercy?

Then we have the revealing answers of presents they always wanted as a child, but never received. Many go for the traditional gifts - bikes, dolls houses, train sets and even a canoe - but then I read that Plaid AM Chris Franks wants a horse, both David Davies and Alun Cairns want a chopper bike (have some press officers started on the sherry a little too early this year?) and new Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams a "Mr Frosty drinks machine", whatever that is.

Health Minister Edwina Hart, whose answers read like a homage to Oliver Cromwell, spreads some more seasonal cheer by refusing to ask for any Christmas presents. "I can't think of any present ... that I didn't receive as a child', well, Bah Humbug Mrs Scrooge! Couldn't you have asked for the removal of that sense of humour bypass?

Then we have a woefully uninspiring list of New Year's resolutions: Kirsty Williams and Alun Cairns want to lose weight, Nick Bourne wants to work 'for a better Wales' (really Nick? really?), then we have the oh-so-pious Jane Davidson pledging to cycle everywhere, and Plaid's Nerys Evans wanting to use her car less. Then fresh from his failed legislative bid David Melding wants to 'improve his Welsh', I've never heard him utter a word, so presumably improvement amounts to saying 'diolch' now and again.

My Christmas wish? Some inspiration, hard work and forward-thinking from our national politicians, but then I suppose that's far too much to ask.