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Huge thanks to Sir Graham Brady, former Chair of the 1922 Committee for standing with the 3.8 million #ExcludedUK on Budget day. We await justice @andyburnham, Now as @UKLabour PM, where is the restitution, as all we hear now is RADIO SILENCE?
@ExcludedUK
@Conservatives @LibDems
📢 #IsItOK to campaign alongside 3.8 million excluded UK taxpayers for over SIX YEARS, promise them justice, then fall silent when you become Prime Minister?
@andyburnham, we are still waiting for answers.
#IsItOK that another #ExcludedUK member was made homeless last Friday... the fourth house last in the last SIX weeks!!! We thought you were trying to end homelessness?!?!!!
For well over six years, Andy Burnham was one of the most vocal and passionate political supporters of #ExcludedUK, campaigning WITH us for the millions of hardworking UK taxpayers who were wholly or partially excluded from meaningful Covid-19 financial support.
These included freelancers, the self-employed, small business owners, company directors and thousands of people, including those working in the TV and film industries, many of whom saw their livelihoods disappear overnight.
Andy did not simply offer a few words of sympathy. He actively campaigned alongside us, co-hosting several events with Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK, speaking directly to our members, listening to their devastating experiences and repeatedly pledging his support.
🎥 WATCH THE ATTACHED VIDEO
In this recording, Andy Burnham promises to pursue financial remedy AND a public apology for those so appallingly let down.
He knew the human cost of exclusion. He knew that at least 40 people had taken their own lives, with their deaths reported to ExcludedUK in connection with the devastating consequences of being denied support.
He has described the exclusion as "indefensible" and said a solution was "fair, proportionate and doable".
Yet since becoming Prime Minister, the man who stood beside us for well over six years appears to have fallen silent.
📩 Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
📩 Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
💔 Families are still grieving. Lives and livelihoods remain shattered. People are still living with the financial and psychological consequences of decisions made more than six years ago. Attemtped suicides are still a regular occurence!
Not even the promised apology has materialised.
💥 An apology costs NOTHING!
No Treasury funding. No Budget allocation. No complicated financial calculations.
An apology is FREE, and that is something we can ALL afford!
So, Andy, we ask you:
❓ #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
❓ #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
❓ #IsItOK for those who dutifully paid into the system, but were deliberately left out, to still be fighting for justice more than SIX YEARS later?
Andy, you stood with us when you were campaigning. We need you to stand with us now that you are in power.
3.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.
We are not going away.
#ExcludedUK #IsItOK #TheLastLeg #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey #Channel4 #AdamHills #JoshWiddicombe #AlexBrooker #TVandFilm #Freelancers #SelfEmployed #Covid19 #CovidSupport #ExcludedFighter #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
ExcludedFighter retweeted
👏 A huge shout-out to every @ExcludedUK member who raised their voice outside Parliament on Budget Day through our video van! 🚨 Alastair, your #ExcludedUK in #Hitchin #Hertfordshire now need your voice to the PM @andyburnham!
#SmallBusinessSaturday
@ExcludedUK
@BBCLookEast
Please do not continue the wall of silence we have become used to from the last @UKLabour PM... we thought you were better than that @andyburnham!!
Please contact, Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK to arrange a meeting to look at the way forward... just cast your eye over this video to remind yourself of what you said to her on the livestream you co-hosted with her on 24th June 2024.... an apology is FREE... you promised it... you can afford it...FREE is the right price to vindicate the +40 individuals who saw no othre option but to take their own lives!
@andyburnham or @JohnHealey_MP are welcome to make contact.... [email protected]
DID YOU GET LITTLE OR NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT DURING COVID?
Were you excluded from fair and equal Covid-19 financial support?
If so, join some of the other 3.8 million UK taxpayers who were, as we campaign for this scandal to be put right.. bit.ly/3UunLTY
Dutifully paid in, deliberately left out!
Lives & livelihoods ruined!
37+ suicides and hundreds of attempted suicides!
Website: excludeduk.org
Facebook Group: bit.ly/3UunLTY
Sign up to our mailing list: bit.ly/4bdpB0U
Sign our petition: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
There are over 20 categories of exclusions including:
·New starters
·New Businesses
·PAYE freelancers
·Newly self-employed
·Those denied furlough
·Directors paid in Dividends
·Directors paid PAYE Annually
·Made redundant before 19 Mar 2020
·Directors of Companies not in Profit
·Self-employed with +£50k trading profits
·Businesses ineligible for Business Grants
·Those in maternity/parental/adoption leave
·Those earning less than 50% income from self-employment
·Those whose personal circumstances have affected entitlement to support e.g. pensions, bereavement allowance, carer’s allowance, students, armed forces veterans… and more…
ExcludedUK are asking for: (1) An apology from government so this injustice is recognised and assurance that it will never happen again. (2) Parity of support (3) Acknowledgement of loss of earnings/profit and consequential loss.
#ExcludedUK
@ExcludedFighter @SadieMHarris @JohnMartinComic @inkbyboston @harrisonmaxwell @NickFerrariLBC @ITVX @PA @ExcludedUK @andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP @downingstreet @switherdenMP @MP4Stratford @AlPinkerton @gregsmith_uk @RichardNewby3 @ExcludedFighter @SadieMHarris @APPGGapsSupport @UKLabour @LibDems @Conservatives @theSNP @reformparty_uk @thisisyourparty @Plaid_Cymru @TheGreenParty @thatginamiller @MartinSLewis @JohnDCaudwell @itvnews @GMB @GBNEWS @BigIssue @LBC @itvnews @BBCNews @PA @AP @BBCBreakfast
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Mel, follow Sir Graham Brady and @darrenjones! Stand up for thousands of #ExcludedUK constituents across #Okehampton #Teignbridge #Devon. You challenged your own Gov during COVID. They NOW need the restitution that @andyburnham long called for?
@CommonsTreasury
@Meg_HillierMP
Yesterday Chair @MelJStride asked @Jesse_Norman about our report on #GapsInSupport.
The minister said that the Government will consider the Committee's recommendations carefully.
Find out more here: houseofcommons.shorthandstor…
#ExcludedUK #ForgottenLtd #newstarterjustice
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Your @Conservatives predecessor Mike was a tenacious voice for @ExcludedUK . With the @UKLabour 's values of social justice, equality and fairness, your voice is now urgently needed David to demand restitution for your #ExcludedUK folk in #HemelHempstead.
@GazetteHemel @BBC3CR
📢 #IsItOK to campaign alongside 3.8 million excluded UK taxpayers for over SIX YEARS, promise them justice, then fall silent when you become Prime Minister?
@andyburnham, we are still waiting for answers.
#IsItOK that another #ExcludedUK member was made homeless last Friday... the fourth house last in the last SIX weeks!!! We thought you were trying to end homelessness?!?!!!
For well over six years, Andy Burnham was one of the most vocal and passionate political supporters of #ExcludedUK, campaigning WITH us for the millions of hardworking UK taxpayers who were wholly or partially excluded from meaningful Covid-19 financial support.
These included freelancers, the self-employed, small business owners, company directors and thousands of people, including those working in the TV and film industries, many of whom saw their livelihoods disappear overnight.
Andy did not simply offer a few words of sympathy. He actively campaigned alongside us, co-hosting several events with Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK, speaking directly to our members, listening to their devastating experiences and repeatedly pledging his support.
🎥 WATCH THE ATTACHED VIDEO
In this recording, Andy Burnham promises to pursue financial remedy AND a public apology for those so appallingly let down.
He knew the human cost of exclusion. He knew that at least 40 people had taken their own lives, with their deaths reported to ExcludedUK in connection with the devastating consequences of being denied support.
He has described the exclusion as "indefensible" and said a solution was "fair, proportionate and doable".
Yet since becoming Prime Minister, the man who stood beside us for well over six years appears to have fallen silent.
📩 Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
📩 Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
💔 Families are still grieving. Lives and livelihoods remain shattered. People are still living with the financial and psychological consequences of decisions made more than six years ago. Attemtped suicides are still a regular occurence!
Not even the promised apology has materialised.
💥 An apology costs NOTHING!
No Treasury funding. No Budget allocation. No complicated financial calculations.
An apology is FREE, and that is something we can ALL afford!
So, Andy, we ask you:
❓ #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
❓ #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
❓ #IsItOK for those who dutifully paid into the system, but were deliberately left out, to still be fighting for justice more than SIX YEARS later?
Andy, you stood with us when you were campaigning. We need you to stand with us now that you are in power.
3.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.
We are not going away.
#ExcludedUK #IsItOK #TheLastLeg #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey #Channel4 #AdamHills #JoshWiddicombe #AlexBrooker #TVandFilm #Freelancers #SelfEmployed #Covid19 #CovidSupport #ExcludedFighter #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
ExcludedFighter retweeted
How about the pressures 3.8 MILLION #excludeduk hardworking taxpayers were left to face 2020 onwards??
@andyburnham KNOWS who we are and DELIBERATELY chooses to IGNORE us!
Were his words 👇👇👇 a lie during #generalelection???
@ExcludedFighter @ExcludedUK @susannareid100 @GMB
ExcludedFighter retweeted
👏 We Welcome @andyburnham’s debt drive. But millions of #ExcludedUK families were forced into debt through no fault of their own as he and Gordon know personally. They deserve accountability, a full apology and financial restitution. Don’t you leave them behind as well
@GMB @PA
After @Piersmorgan and @susannareid100 raised the issue of the 2-3m self-employed who are not being supported by the govt, @officeGSbrown says Rishi Sunak has to do better.
He says it’s the PM’s responsibility to show there’s a 'basic fairness' in how people are treated.
ExcludedFighter retweeted
🚨 Pippa: @andyburnham must go further than any PM before him. Before the last GE he called for an apology and restitution for 3.8m #ExcludedUK and our families. 40+ suicides, 3 since @UKLabour formed @GOVUK and hundreds of attempts. HE MUST ACT NOW @SkyNews @TheRealJamieKay @PA
📢 #IsItOK to campaign alongside 3.8 million excluded UK taxpayers for over SIX YEARS, promise them justice, then fall silent when you become Prime Minister?
@andyburnham, we are still waiting for answers.
#IsItOK that another #ExcludedUK member was made homeless last Friday... the fourth house last in the last SIX weeks!!! We thought you were trying to end homelessness?!?!!!
For well over six years, Andy Burnham was one of the most vocal and passionate political supporters of #ExcludedUK, campaigning WITH us for the millions of hardworking UK taxpayers who were wholly or partially excluded from meaningful Covid-19 financial support.
These included freelancers, the self-employed, small business owners, company directors and thousands of people, including those working in the TV and film industries, many of whom saw their livelihoods disappear overnight.
Andy did not simply offer a few words of sympathy. He actively campaigned alongside us, co-hosting several events with Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK, speaking directly to our members, listening to their devastating experiences and repeatedly pledging his support.
🎥 WATCH THE ATTACHED VIDEO
In this recording, Andy Burnham promises to pursue financial remedy AND a public apology for those so appallingly let down.
He knew the human cost of exclusion. He knew that at least 40 people had taken their own lives, with their deaths reported to ExcludedUK in connection with the devastating consequences of being denied support.
He has described the exclusion as "indefensible" and said a solution was "fair, proportionate and doable".
Yet since becoming Prime Minister, the man who stood beside us for well over six years appears to have fallen silent.
📩 Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
📩 Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
💔 Families are still grieving. Lives and livelihoods remain shattered. People are still living with the financial and psychological consequences of decisions made more than six years ago. Attemtped suicides are still a regular occurence!
Not even the promised apology has materialised.
💥 An apology costs NOTHING!
No Treasury funding. No Budget allocation. No complicated financial calculations.
An apology is FREE, and that is something we can ALL afford!
So, Andy, we ask you:
❓ #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
❓ #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
❓ #IsItOK for those who dutifully paid into the system, but were deliberately left out, to still be fighting for justice more than SIX YEARS later?
Andy, you stood with us when you were campaigning. We need you to stand with us now that you are in power.
3.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.
We are not going away.
#ExcludedUK #IsItOK #TheLastLeg #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey #Channel4 #AdamHills #JoshWiddicombe #AlexBrooker #TVandFilm #Freelancers #SelfEmployed #Covid19 #CovidSupport #ExcludedFighter #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Now, Margaret, your #ExcludedUK constituents and 3.8m families need YOUR voice. 🚨 After years of tenacious support from @andyburnham, we’re now being snubbed by him as @UKLabour PM. Will you stand with @ExcludedUK?💔
@MetroUK @theLDNstandard @BBCLondonNews
@HinaBokhariLD @GMB
It's truly dreadful that people think the pandemic is over...when there are thousands still paying their Bounce Back LOANs...when the other 90% of UK taxpayers were awarded grants that they didn't have to pay back. #ExcludedUK don't have a problem with that, nobody would have survived without them... but why were 10% left out?!?
Why was it OK for 1 member of ExcludedUK to take their own life, let alone 40... and they are the ones we have been notified about....there will be thousands more we don't know about...
Last Friday another #ExcludedUK member lost their house as they could not keep up with mortgage AND BBL repayments.... how is that even allowed??!!? @MartinSLewis your team told Head of #ExcludedUK, Jennifer Griffiths, that you could not campaign with us any longer as you were concentrating on your own projects... but nothing has changed since you last campaigned with us...in fact, it has got worse... more people have lost homes, businesses, personal possessions, and lives!
Please help us... I know you are busy, but despite all his promises, @andyburnham has gone quiet on us!
Jennifer is still dealing with attempted suicides and the families of those who have taken their own life as a result of being excluded... it is just not right!
Please email Jennifer and work out a way to help us. [email protected]
excludeduk.org
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Darren, as BEIS Chair you called #ExcludedUK discrimination, as did @andyburnham. Now his silence raises serious questions of gov negligence, prolonging devastation to lives and livelihoods. Thankyou for standing with 3.8 million #ExcludedUK families inc in #Bristol
@BristolLive
📢 #IsItOK to campaign alongside 3.8 million excluded UK taxpayers for over SIX YEARS, promise them justice, then fall silent when you become Prime Minister?
@andyburnham, we are still waiting for answers.
#IsItOK that another #ExcludedUK member was made homeless last Friday... the fourth house last in the last SIX weeks!!! We thought you were trying to end homelessness?!?!!!
For well over six years, Andy Burnham was one of the most vocal and passionate political supporters of #ExcludedUK, campaigning WITH us for the millions of hardworking UK taxpayers who were wholly or partially excluded from meaningful Covid-19 financial support.
These included freelancers, the self-employed, small business owners, company directors and thousands of people, including those working in the TV and film industries, many of whom saw their livelihoods disappear overnight.
Andy did not simply offer a few words of sympathy. He actively campaigned alongside us, co-hosting several events with Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK, speaking directly to our members, listening to their devastating experiences and repeatedly pledging his support.
🎥 WATCH THE ATTACHED VIDEO
In this recording, Andy Burnham promises to pursue financial remedy AND a public apology for those so appallingly let down.
He knew the human cost of exclusion. He knew that at least 40 people had taken their own lives, with their deaths reported to ExcludedUK in connection with the devastating consequences of being denied support.
He has described the exclusion as "indefensible" and said a solution was "fair, proportionate and doable".
Yet since becoming Prime Minister, the man who stood beside us for well over six years appears to have fallen silent.
📩 Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
📩 Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
💔 Families are still grieving. Lives and livelihoods remain shattered. People are still living with the financial and psychological consequences of decisions made more than six years ago. Attemtped suicides are still a regular occurence!
Not even the promised apology has materialised.
💥 An apology costs NOTHING!
No Treasury funding. No Budget allocation. No complicated financial calculations.
An apology is FREE, and that is something we can ALL afford!
So, Andy, we ask you:
❓ #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
❓ #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
❓ #IsItOK for those who dutifully paid into the system, but were deliberately left out, to still be fighting for justice more than SIX YEARS later?
Andy, you stood with us when you were campaigning. We need you to stand with us now that you are in power.
3.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.
We are not going away.
#ExcludedUK #IsItOK #TheLastLeg #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey #Channel4 #AdamHills #JoshWiddicombe #AlexBrooker #TVandFilm #Freelancers #SelfEmployed #Covid19 #CovidSupport #ExcludedFighter #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Great to see you for the #Budget2026. Please pass on my regards to Lord Kinnock. As he knows 3.8m taxpayers await redress.
With 3 suicides on @UKLabour's watch, press @andyburnham to NOW deliver for #ExcludedUK inc in #Aberavon #Porttalbot #Wales
@RhunapIorwerth
@BBCWales
📢 #IsItOK to campaign alongside 3.8 million excluded UK taxpayers for over SIX YEARS, promise them justice, then fall silent when you become Prime Minister?
@andyburnham, we are still waiting for answers.
#IsItOK that another #ExcludedUK member was made homeless last Friday... the fourth house last in the last SIX weeks!!! We thought you were trying to end homelessness?!?!!!
For well over six years, Andy Burnham was one of the most vocal and passionate political supporters of #ExcludedUK, campaigning WITH us for the millions of hardworking UK taxpayers who were wholly or partially excluded from meaningful Covid-19 financial support.
These included freelancers, the self-employed, small business owners, company directors and thousands of people, including those working in the TV and film industries, many of whom saw their livelihoods disappear overnight.
Andy did not simply offer a few words of sympathy. He actively campaigned alongside us, co-hosting several events with Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK, speaking directly to our members, listening to their devastating experiences and repeatedly pledging his support.
🎥 WATCH THE ATTACHED VIDEO
In this recording, Andy Burnham promises to pursue financial remedy AND a public apology for those so appallingly let down.
He knew the human cost of exclusion. He knew that at least 40 people had taken their own lives, with their deaths reported to ExcludedUK in connection with the devastating consequences of being denied support.
He has described the exclusion as "indefensible" and said a solution was "fair, proportionate and doable".
Yet since becoming Prime Minister, the man who stood beside us for well over six years appears to have fallen silent.
📩 Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
📩 Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
💔 Families are still grieving. Lives and livelihoods remain shattered. People are still living with the financial and psychological consequences of decisions made more than six years ago. Attemtped suicides are still a regular occurence!
Not even the promised apology has materialised.
💥 An apology costs NOTHING!
No Treasury funding. No Budget allocation. No complicated financial calculations.
An apology is FREE, and that is something we can ALL afford!
So, Andy, we ask you:
❓ #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
❓ #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
❓ #IsItOK for those who dutifully paid into the system, but were deliberately left out, to still be fighting for justice more than SIX YEARS later?
Andy, you stood with us when you were campaigning. We need you to stand with us now that you are in power.
3.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.
We are not going away.
#ExcludedUK #IsItOK #TheLastLeg #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey #Channel4 #AdamHills #JoshWiddicombe #AlexBrooker #TVandFilm #Freelancers #SelfEmployed #Covid19 #CovidSupport #ExcludedFighter #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
ExcludedFighter retweeted
After @Piersmorgan and @susannareid100 raised the issue of the 2-3m self-employed who are not being supported by the govt, @officeGSbrown says Rishi Sunak has to do better.
He says it’s the PM’s responsibility to show there’s a 'basic fairness' in how people are treated.
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Jo, you stood with us before. Now, thousands of your #ExcludedUK constituents in #Cardiff were wrecked by a crisis that started in 2020. Lives shattered, families ruined, they need you to speak up again and now to the PM @andyburnham to write this wrong
@ExcludedUK
@BBCWalesNews
My calls to the Chancellor yesterday in @HouseofCommons to support the cultural and entertainment industries and those who work in them.
Especially @ExcludedUK, who he has repeatedly ignored and deliberately chosen to exclude from support for an entire year.
#Budget
ExcludedFighter retweeted
#ExcludedUK are still waiting to be heard and included..... ignored and lied to by the @Conservatives... Will @UKLabour and @andyburnham now listen and engage......... you were before becoming PM Andy!
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Huge thanks to Sir Graham Brady, former Chair of the 1922 Committee for standing with the 3.8 million #ExcludedUK on Budget day. We await justice @andyburnham, Now as @UKLabour PM, where is the restitution, as all we hear now is RADIO SILENCE?
@ExcludedUK
@Conservatives @LibDems
📢 #IsItOK to campaign alongside 3.8 million excluded UK taxpayers for over SIX YEARS, promise them justice, then fall silent when you become Prime Minister?
@andyburnham, we are still waiting for answers.
#IsItOK that another #ExcludedUK member was made homeless last Friday... the fourth house last in the last SIX weeks!!! We thought you were trying to end homelessness?!?!!!
For well over six years, Andy Burnham was one of the most vocal and passionate political supporters of #ExcludedUK, campaigning WITH us for the millions of hardworking UK taxpayers who were wholly or partially excluded from meaningful Covid-19 financial support.
These included freelancers, the self-employed, small business owners, company directors and thousands of people, including those working in the TV and film industries, many of whom saw their livelihoods disappear overnight.
Andy did not simply offer a few words of sympathy. He actively campaigned alongside us, co-hosting several events with Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK, speaking directly to our members, listening to their devastating experiences and repeatedly pledging his support.
🎥 WATCH THE ATTACHED VIDEO
In this recording, Andy Burnham promises to pursue financial remedy AND a public apology for those so appallingly let down.
He knew the human cost of exclusion. He knew that at least 40 people had taken their own lives, with their deaths reported to ExcludedUK in connection with the devastating consequences of being denied support.
He has described the exclusion as "indefensible" and said a solution was "fair, proportionate and doable".
Yet since becoming Prime Minister, the man who stood beside us for well over six years appears to have fallen silent.
📩 Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
📩 Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
💔 Families are still grieving. Lives and livelihoods remain shattered. People are still living with the financial and psychological consequences of decisions made more than six years ago. Attemtped suicides are still a regular occurence!
Not even the promised apology has materialised.
💥 An apology costs NOTHING!
No Treasury funding. No Budget allocation. No complicated financial calculations.
An apology is FREE, and that is something we can ALL afford!
So, Andy, we ask you:
❓ #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
❓ #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
❓ #IsItOK for those who dutifully paid into the system, but were deliberately left out, to still be fighting for justice more than SIX YEARS later?
Andy, you stood with us when you were campaigning. We need you to stand with us now that you are in power.
3.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.
We are not going away.
#ExcludedUK #IsItOK #TheLastLeg #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey #Channel4 #AdamHills #JoshWiddicombe #AlexBrooker #TVandFilm #Freelancers #SelfEmployed #Covid19 #CovidSupport #ExcludedFighter #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
ExcludedFighter retweeted
No one is pretending things are easy right now. They aren’t. But every day Andy is signalling that he understands what people are going through.
Well he did as Mayor @KevinCraigUK, BUT over the last 100 day's as @UKLabour PM, he ignores @ExcludedUK😡.
ISN'T THAT RIGHT @LibDems!
📢 #IsItOK to campaign alongside 3.8 million excluded UK taxpayers for over SIX YEARS, promise them justice, then fall silent when you become Prime Minister?
@andyburnham, we are still waiting for answers.
#IsItOK that another #ExcludedUK member was made homeless last Friday... the fourth house last in the last SIX weeks!!! We thought you were trying to end homelessness?!?!!!
For well over six years, Andy Burnham was one of the most vocal and passionate political supporters of #ExcludedUK, campaigning WITH us for the millions of hardworking UK taxpayers who were wholly or partially excluded from meaningful Covid-19 financial support.
These included freelancers, the self-employed, small business owners, company directors and thousands of people, including those working in the TV and film industries, many of whom saw their livelihoods disappear overnight.
Andy did not simply offer a few words of sympathy. He actively campaigned alongside us, co-hosting several events with Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK, speaking directly to our members, listening to their devastating experiences and repeatedly pledging his support.
🎥 WATCH THE ATTACHED VIDEO
In this recording, Andy Burnham promises to pursue financial remedy AND a public apology for those so appallingly let down.
He knew the human cost of exclusion. He knew that at least 40 people had taken their own lives, with their deaths reported to ExcludedUK in connection with the devastating consequences of being denied support.
He has described the exclusion as "indefensible" and said a solution was "fair, proportionate and doable".
Yet since becoming Prime Minister, the man who stood beside us for well over six years appears to have fallen silent.
📩 Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
📩 Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
💔 Families are still grieving. Lives and livelihoods remain shattered. People are still living with the financial and psychological consequences of decisions made more than six years ago. Attemtped suicides are still a regular occurence!
Not even the promised apology has materialised.
💥 An apology costs NOTHING!
No Treasury funding. No Budget allocation. No complicated financial calculations.
An apology is FREE, and that is something we can ALL afford!
So, Andy, we ask you:
❓ #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
❓ #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
❓ #IsItOK for those who dutifully paid into the system, but were deliberately left out, to still be fighting for justice more than SIX YEARS later?
Andy, you stood with us when you were campaigning. We need you to stand with us now that you are in power.
3.8 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN.
We are not going away.
#ExcludedUK #IsItOK #TheLastLeg #AndyBurnham #JohnHealey #Channel4 #AdamHills #JoshWiddicombe #AlexBrooker #TVandFilm #Freelancers #SelfEmployed #Covid19 #CovidSupport #ExcludedFighter #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Indeed. As my MP @darrenpjones and one who is very aware of the situation, and in light of @andyburnham now turning his back on us, seemingly, I feel I can no longer trust Labour as week as the Tories who cost us so much in the pandemic.
Who, of @LibDems @TheGreenParty etc would be able to PROMISE we would never be left financially abandoned in any future crisis?
We haven’t even had an apology from government for causing lost homes, life savings and lives.
Seriously, government of both main parties can expect never to get my vote again.
They want my taxes but consider me and my family expendable, along with 3.8 million other taxpayers and their families.
@labourpress @EdwardJDavey @ExcludedFighter #ExcludedUK
ExcludedFighter retweeted
I would have been if they spent it on FFP2/3 masks and cleaning indoor air
but no
They pissed it up the wall on useless PPE provided on by their mates
I would have been keen on furlough to encourage isolation if I hadn't been one of the #ExcludedUK
I got covid and #LongCovid in Jan/Feb 2020 from a coworker returning from China after New Year visiting sick relative.. I had to give up job as applications engineer in early March 2020 as it was too physical for my covid damaged heart.. I moved straight into a sedentary vax lab job but even that became too much but when everyone else was furloughed I got SSP only then JSA then nothing for 8 months while being told to shield as CEV (well obviously it wrecked my heart first time around) no 75% of wages furlough for me because I changed jobs and was unemployed for 14 hours in March 2020 so obviously a fraud under Rishi's rules...
So no I don't appreciate the covid spending ...
ExcludedFighter retweeted
@johnmcdonnellMP Thank you for your support, it really does mean so much. Myself, my husband and eldest son were all #ExcludedUK for different reasons. We appreciate that you remember us
ExcludedFighter retweeted
#Budget2026 was a failure. Businesses collapsing, bankruptcies rising, poverty, families drowning in debt and a #MentalHealth crisis. After years of championing #ExcludedUK redress, @AndyBurnham has NOW turned his back, so yours in #Oxford need your voice again??
@TheOxfordMail
ExcludedFighter retweeted
John, your outstanding advocacy for the 3.8 million #ExcludedUK over the years has meant so much. Your support at #Budget2026, demanding @andyburnham honour his words and deliver the redress he promised, gives hope to us still fighting for justice inc yours #Hayes & #Harlington
We are ready to discuss financial asks that are fair, proportionate and achievable.
After more than six years, the 3.8 million cannot simply be written off. Businesses, homes, livelihoods and futures were lost.
More than 40 members of our community saw no other way out than to take their own lives.
Recognition is fair. Accountability is proportionate.
Justice is doable.
Prime Minister, let us begin that work.
Please email Head of ExcludedUK, Jennifer Griffiths, at [email protected]
excludeduk.org #ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Abu Dhabi Andy!
Just wonder now if 3.8 #excludeduk taxpayers actually KNOW the real @andyburnham ???
Its like having a body double as @10DowningStreet at the moment!
Which version of AB said this 👇👇👇🤷♀️🤔
@ExcludedUK @ExcludedFighter @susannareid100 @GMB @cathynewman