So 2015 has come and gone and what a year it was.

It was the year of the migrant crisis, terror attacks and a time when British people ditched 1,000 years of history to declare solidarity with our brothers and sisters in France.

Politically it was momentous too, with a general election providing a shock result, leading to the second coming of the Labour party under the stewardship of JC himself, Jeremy Corbyn.

So what better way to mark it than with the awarding of a few (slightly tongue-in-cheek) awards to honour those who went above and beyond to serve you.

The Nicky Clarke bouffant of the year

For successive years the runaway winner has been Brighton Kemptown MP Simon Kirby.

After he squeaked out a win in the election in May against the equally voluminous Nancy Platts, he was a frontrunner to make it three in a row.

But, he was out-waxed and curled by Green councillor Leo Littman.

The Black Knight award for optimism brought to you by Monty Python

This award goes to a Liberal Democrat. No, not Paddy Ashdown for saying he would "eat his hat" after doubting the general election exit poll.

This goes to Bob Smytherman, who stood for the party in East Worthing and Shoreham.

Now, anyone who knows him will agree that Bob is perhaps the nicest man in politics. That’s why he agreed to stand for the party when its former candidate Jemima Bland moved to Australia four weeks before the election – and forgot to tell everyone.

So Bob stepped in and proudly tweeted on election day that the “Lib Dems were winning here”.

The result? Bob got 3,000 votes, putting him in fourth, more than 20,000 behind the eventual winner.

I’ve no doubt, like the armless and legless Black Knight, he’ll fight on.

Kate Moss fashionista of the year

Surprisingly there were plenty in the running for this gong.

There were strong showings from former Labour councillor Chaun Wilson for her multi-coloured hair and former Green council leader Jason Kitcat for sporting a goatee for so long without any irony.

But the winner, hands down, is Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Jezzer, we’ll give you the beard and the beige suit – but the cycling shell suit? Really?

Pantomime villain of the year

Whenever he stands up in his stars and stripes tie to deliver a speech in the council chamber, his own party roll their eyes and hiss under their breath.

He’s wound up more people than a clockmaker has cuckoos.

It’s the neo-Con everyone loves to hate, Tony Janio, the Conservative city councillor for Hangleton.

The Ronseal award for doing exactly what it says on the tin

The Scottish National Party.

They stand for election in Scotland with the aim of forming an independent nation.

Can someone please remind former footballer Stan Collymore of that simple fact.

He seems to think he’ll stand for the SNP in Birmingham next time around.

The Where’s Wally guide to evasiveness

Locally, we have Mick Clark, Ukip's county councillor on Shoreham Beach, who apparently got elected four years ago without delivering a single leaflet – and many say they haven’t seen him since.

Nationally, there was Gordon Brown,(who he??)– the former prime minister who stayed on as an MP for five years.

But the winners are the Lib Dems in Brighton‎ and Hove, who struggled so hard to find 10 people to nominate their general election candidates they took to stopping people in the street.

The Stevie Nicks' going his/her own way award

Very tempted to give this to Lynton Crosby, the Tory election mastermind, the only one telling the opinion pollsters that they were wrong in predicting a hung parliament.

But the winner is Ukip’s only MP Douglas Carswell, who was the leader of a Westminster rebellion of one against his party leader Nigel Farage.

Carswell claimed he had 100 per cent of the parliamentary party behind him.

Can’t argue with that. But Farage has the ghosts of Boudicca, King Alfred and Francis Drake on his side. Who will win? We shall have to wait and see.

“Call Me Tony” gong for normalness, sponsored by BHS

Named in honour of that most normal of prime ministers, Tony Blair who, despite earning more than £1 million for a 30-minute speech, still looks to solve world peace in a pair of BHS boxers.

The winner is Labour’s MP for Hove Peter Kyle, who winds down from Westminster by boarding buses into central Brighton at the weekends to hit the nightclubs.

His choice of underwear is irrelevant.