It’s our final episode of 2025 — and we’re going out with a bang (and a beer). Joseph, Holly, and Andrew reunite after a winter bug-induced hiatus to bring you our first-ever year-end special. We make bold predictions (that we’ll surely regret), hand out highly scientific year-end awards, play games, roast each other’s beer tasting notes, and toast to the chaos that was.

It’s everything you’d expect from Craft Politics — unfiltered, occasionally insightful, and always a bit ridiculous.

🗳 Rapid-Fire Reflections:

• One word to sum up the political year? Fruitless, chaotic… and a bit shit.

• The story everyone thinks they understood?

  • Doug Ford’s World Series ad

  • Trump’s tariffs

  • Labour’s tax strategy — and still nobody gets it.

• What we’re all pretending won’t matter in 2026, but will?

  • Alberta separatism

  • UK house prices

  • defence spending… and apparently, Andrew’s age.

🔹 Serious Predictions:

• Canada heads to the polls — and the Conservatives win (Joseph)

• Conservative leadership could change… in Canada (Andrew)

• Reform UK will peak in spring… then fade (Holly)

🌶 Spicy Predictions:

• The Parti Québécois doesn’t win in Quebec — CAQ makes a surprise comeback (Joseph)

• Zack Polanski’s meteoric Green Party rise hits a bump (Holly)

• Something very spicy happens in Labour ranks (Andrew… vaguely)

🕵️‍♀️ Quiet Shifts to Watch:

• Canada’s election becomes about chaos vs. control

• Doug Ford and Donald Trump become unlikely friends

• Joseph steps down from the podcast due to… “an incident”

📊 Real Headline or Fake?

• Doug Ford on The Amazing Race?

• Signal-gate?

• Andrew Percy in the Lords?

  Let’s just say, trust no one — especially Grockipedia.

🗣️ Who Said It?

• “I don’t particularly want to wipe someone’s bum”

• “The best is yet to come… get the bungee harness ready”

• “I originally saw AI as an efficiency gain. I was wrong.”

  (Many of your favourites are quoted, willingly or not.)

🍺 Beer Notes or Erotic Fiction?

Andrew and Holly put Joseph’s Untappd beer reviews under the microscope.

Did he really say a beer had a “beautiful head”? Yes.

Did he really sneak one into a soccer match? Also yes.

Did any of it make sense? You be the judge

🏆 Year-End Awards

• Most Predictable Surprise: Angela Rayner resigns

• Best Attempt at Spin: Signal-gate

• Worst Use of a Chart: Lib Dems still doing Lib Dem things

• Phrase We Never Want to Hear Again: “Looks gorgeous. Tastes like a marvel.”