Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year From the ABC

SEASONAL GREETINGS - Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year to our global audience. 

The ABC was founded to provide information, ideas, and signposting to those on social security benefits and state pensions. 

We launched on November 5th 2014 – a great day for revolutionaries, and we have kept going onward and upwards ever since!

We get asked to comment and we have recently appeared on BBC Essex (five times in 2020), talkRADIO (weekend breakfast show), Chelmsford Community Radio, Future Radio and on RT TV (fourth time) as well as British Forces Broadcasting, BBC Look East, and more including print media…

Discussions have included the triple lock pension, the eviction moratorium, the high cost of facemasks for those on welfare, unemployment, universal credit, the economy, and additionally employment issues and TV licences and the over 75’s, are just some of the topics we have been asked to comment on recently.  

We have campaigned on many issues, stopping discrimination in the housing market for those on benefits and getting the eviction moratorium moved. We have written to the Queen twice in 2021 and several ministers and civil servants.  

People on welfare are classed as workers, but they are also human beings first and foremost and we are pleased and delighted to give a voice to this large section of this often-overlooked community. 

Millennium Award winner Simon, was trained in speech and drama, elocution and public speaking. Simon is also engaged in presenting a talk called Human Potential in schools about how to succeed in life and successfully navigate life’s highway. Our first talks in two Portsmouth schools were helped by Team INEOS who are currently preparing for the PRADA Cup, the selection series for a challenger for the 36th Americas Cup in New Zealand, the final match racing at Easter time. 

The World Economic Forum kicks off in January 2021 - expect to hear a lot of talk about the Great Reset and Building Back Better. We will be hearing today about the BREXIT deal the government has finally negotiated. Nigel Farage will cry sellout no doubt but for many, there may be a sigh of relief. We shall see.

Whatever happens life on earth will continue for now and 2021 can hardly be as bad as that of 2020. Or can it...? We remain quietly optimistic all will come good.  

We have some exciting projects in the pipeline, 'watch this space' as they say. 

Have a very Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Simon Collyer and the ABC Team

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