Thank you so much - and Christmas wishes 🎄

Dear John,

2020 has been an incredibly difficult year for so many people. Whether you’re on your own this Christmas or with family, whether you and yours are well or you’ve had a tricky time of it – we’re sending you love and solidarity.

It’s been a tough one but because of all the campaign action you've taken this year, we’ve been able to grow and achieve more than ever before.

THANK YOU so much for everything you've done this year to defend our NHS and all public services.

Thanks to you - here are a few highlights of the things you’ve helped to achieve this year:

You helped us celebrate the NHS’s birthday with polling to show that 3 out of 4 of us want the NHS to be reinstated as a fully public service after Covid
You put the government under pressure again and again over its decision to outsource contact tracing to Serco – pushing for local public health teams to get the cash instead
You helped to impact the public conversation on everything from water to energy to outsourcing – we were quoted hundreds of times in newspapers like the Mirror, the Guardian, the Daily Express, the Independent as well as in plenty of local papers
With your help, we pushed Labour’s Keir Starmer to sign up to support public ownership pledges across ten policy areas
We saw lots of your wonderful and beautiful faces at our weekly webinars at lunchtime on Thursdays!
You helped us expose the privatisation in the NHS Supply Chain
You won a partial victory with the House of Lords voting to protect our NHS last week after we handed in our biggest petition ever of over 315,000 signatures

In 2021, we’re looking forward to working with you to achieve even more – and hopefully get back to something a bit more like normal life.

We’ll be campaigning vigorously against NHS privatisation as well as pushing for regulation of buses in key cities, holding Labour’s feet to the fire on public ownership policies, and pushing back against outsourcing and privatisation by this government wherever we can.

In the meantime, we’re sending you strength, solidarity, love - and so much gratitude.

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Cat, Pascale, Chris, Alice and Johnbosco – the We Own It team