Sutton comedy star has just the thing for 2021 - the summer Christmas

Next summer, I will have a Christmas, because this one seems to have gone to pot.

We should have seen it coming.

Just a few days before Christmas was cancelled, the Prime Minister said it would be ‘inhuman’ to ban Christmas.

It reminded me of that period in politics when David Cameron would give his full support to whichever minister was caught in a scandal just 24 hours before they had to resign.

So why not delay Christmas 2020, I mean, other people get to delay things.

Train companies, the makers of the new Bond film and whoever was meant to be delivering my PlayStation 5 all get to do it.

There’s no pointing planning for early next year.

The vaccine rollout won’t have made much impact by then.

Depressingly, even if the Government manage to vaccinate one million people per week, it would still take almost two years to vaccinate the UK.

So I say we hold Christmas 2020 in the summer.

It’s better for reducing the spread of respiratory infections, we could have Christmas dinner in the back garden and wrapping paper must be very cheap at that time of year.

I had always wondered what it was like for Australia having Christmas in the hottest month?

We could sample what it’s like.

It would be bad news for anyone dressing up as Father Christmas with a big fake beard, and the snowmen are done for, but for the rest of us it could be fun.

The actual Father Christmas might not be happy.

With the longest day occurring in June he’d have fewer hours of dark in which to deliver all the gifts but I’m sure he could manage it.

There’s no reason to have Christmas in December.

Many experts say the religious festival happened then to usurp a Pagan festival.

We’d have to change some songs – Nat King Cole wouldn’t mention ‘Jack Frost nipping at your nose’ but, ‘sunburn’s peeling off your nose’ would fit in its place.

Best of all, if you don’t like your gifts in the summer version of Christmas, you only have six months to wait for more.

Steve N Allen is a comedian and broadcaster who was raised in Sutton-in-Ashfield.