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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
π’ #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.
π₯ 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.
π© Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
π© Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
π 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.
π₯ 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:
β #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
β #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
β #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
@andyburnham stood with @ExcludedUK, joined live calls and promised to fight for restitution until the bitter end. Now all we hear is silence. After our #Budget video van, ask him: when will he honour that promise to 3.8 million #ExcludedUK
@UKLabour @LibDems @theSNP @GMB @PA
Dermot Keating, "Were you invited to any COBR meetings in the lead up to lockdown 1?"
Andy Burnham, "No"
DK, "DId you ask to attend the COBR meetings?"
AB, "Repeatedly.. I have a memory of chairing a weekly meeting during swine flu where the Cabinet office you could bring in voices from all over the country. It was the way covid COBR meetings should have been done"
DK, "What benefit would attending COBR have given you?"
AB, "A structured environment where serious issues could have been properly raised. For example an issue we raised right though and never got a response: financial support for people on the lowest incomes to isolate. We repeatedly raised that issue. Also people excluded from public support: the self employed, the freelancers. We raised these in the media because we had no alternative" @AndyBurnhamGM #CovidInquiry
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Yourself & @EdDavey, @libdemdaisy will gather after speaking with me at @LibDems Conf, that this #budget done nothing to lift people inc in #Woking out of poverty Will
@andyburnham has U-turned on #ExcludedUK restitution and thatβs unforgivable isn't it @timfarron @darrenpjones
π’ #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.
π₯ 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.
π© Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
π© Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
π 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.
π₯ 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:
β #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
β #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
β #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
As discussed at Labour Conference, Kevin, @andyburnham is now ducking his own pledges. PPE billions splashed, 3.8 million #ExcludedUK left with no furlough and no incomes. Years on, lives and livelihoods are still being lost. Where's the justice @GMB @susannareid100 @edballs??
This is another example of a scandal and utter injustice to millions of people. The #ExcludedUK deserve justice. #excludedscandal @ExcludedFighter @ExcludedUnity @ExcludedNeedJu1
ExcludedFighter retweeted
OMG this is like going back to the Covid crisis for #ExcludedUK. 3.8 million tax payers - yes paying tax because they WORK! @Conservatives lied and ignored us then- now it seems @UKLabour wish us invisible too. Shocking @EmmaforWycombe @andyburnham
ExcludedFighter retweeted
The #ExcludedUK community inc in #Bristol gave the budget 3 out of 10, as @andyburnham failed to deliver his promises on restitution, and @UKLabour COL tweaks don't repay lost homes, businesses, or broken lives, so we really need your voice now in Parliament Darren.
@ExcludedUK
π’ #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.
π₯ 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.
π© Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
π© Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
π 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.
π₯ 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:
β #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
β #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
β #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
C'mon, @andyburnham - Why the silence? 3.8 million of us #ExcludedUK #ExcludedScotland are waiting for answers, repairations and an apology
As discussed at Labour Conference, Kevin, @andyburnham is now ducking his own pledges. PPE billions splashed, 3.8 million #ExcludedUK left with no furlough and no incomes. Years on, lives and livelihoods are still being lost. Where's the justice @GMB @susannareid100 @edballs??
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Family-run businesses etc are STILL paying the price of being #ExcludedUK in COVID: years of lost income, livelihoods and hardship. Join Sir Graham Brady demanding justice for yours in #Witham and millions more let down by @andyburnham, despite years of pledging financial redress
π¨ ANDY BURNHAM, PLEASE REMEMBER THE PROMISES YOU MADE TO EXCLUDEDUK! π¨
Six and a half years. 3.8 million taxpayers. Countless promises. Still no justice.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham, this video is a reminder of the commitments you have made to ExcludedUK and the millions of taxpayers who were denied parity of Covid-19 financial support.
You have been one of our loudest and most consistent political champions since the beginning of our campaign.
You have listened to our stories, spoken at our events, stood alongside our members and repeatedly acknowledged the devastating injustice we have suffered.
You even co-hosted several events with our Head of ExcludedUK, Jennifer Griffiths, including the livestream in June 2024, when you told us:
π£οΈ βThe public see you and the public support you.β
π£οΈ βThe passage of time doesnβt change that.β
π£οΈ βThe level of injustice that you have faced is indefensible.β
π£οΈ βWe will work with you to make sure that the excluded is recognised as one of the injustices that this country needs to rectify.β
You also spoke about financial remedies that could be βfair, proportionate and doable.β
Those words gave people hope, Andy. Real hope.
For some of our members, that hope was the very thing that kept them going when everything else seemed lost.
But the years have passed. Businesses have disappeared. Homes have been lost. Families have been torn apart. Tragically, we know of more than 40 people who died by suicide, with exclusion contributing to the devastating circumstances they faced.
We cannot bring those people back. But we CAN honour their memories by ensuring that this injustice is finally acknowledged and addressed.
Today, you are no longer campaigning from outside Westminster.
You are the Prime Minister.
We understand that financial redress requires careful consideration, political will and public money.
But an apology costs NOTHING.
Not a penny.
Yet even that basic acknowledgement of what happened to 3.8 million hardworking, taxpaying people has still not been forthcoming.
We are asking you to honour your commitments:
β
Deliver a full and frank public apology
β
Meet with ExcludedUK, our APPG and representatives of the bereaved families and those who survived suicide attempts
β
Work with us towards a fair, proportionate and achievable financial remedy
β
Recognise the devastating and continuing consequences of exclusion
Andy, you once told us that the passage of time does not change the injustice. We agree.
We haven't forgotten your words, and we haven't given up on you.
Please don't give up on us.
π₯ WATCH THE VIDEO. LISTEN TO YOUR OWN WORDS. REMEMBER THE PEOPLE YOU PROMISED TO HELP.
youtu.be/Yjm6ag4m1xI
Dutifully paid in. Deliberately left out.
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
@andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP @ExcludedFighter @SadieMHarris @JohnMartinComic @TonyRobinsonOBE @inkbyboston @StephenLiddell_ @Travelicious_24 @harrisonmaxwell
ExcludedFighter retweeted
ποΈ 350,000 #ExcludedUK veterans were also denied COVID support. Now their children face another Christmas relying on food banks and choosing between heating or eating. Alistair, will you now speak up for yours in #Hitchin #Hertfordshire to @andyburnham as the now @UKLabour PM?
Christmas? What Christmas?!? #ExcludedUK members havenβt had the same government financial support as 90% of UK taxpayers have for 21 months, so frivolous spending is impossible!!
@JohnDCaudwell @AndyBurnhamGM @MetroMayorSteve @MartinSLewis @thatginamiller @TonyRobinsonOBE
ExcludedFighter retweeted
This cost-of-living talk rings hollow to the 3.8m #ExcludedUK. 6Β½ years waiting. After 29+ unanswered emails, yours in #Chatham & #Aylesford look to you to follow Tracy Crouchβs lead and press @andyburnham to honour his pledges of restitution Tris?
@Chathamnews
@Kent_Online @PA
π¨ ANDY BURNHAM, PLEASE REMEMBER THE PROMISES YOU MADE TO EXCLUDEDUK! π¨
Six and a half years. 3.8 million taxpayers. Countless promises. Still no justice.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham, this video is a reminder of the commitments you have made to ExcludedUK and the millions of taxpayers who were denied parity of Covid-19 financial support.
You have been one of our loudest and most consistent political champions since the beginning of our campaign.
You have listened to our stories, spoken at our events, stood alongside our members and repeatedly acknowledged the devastating injustice we have suffered.
You even co-hosted several events with our Head of ExcludedUK, Jennifer Griffiths, including the livestream in June 2024, when you told us:
π£οΈ βThe public see you and the public support you.β
π£οΈ βThe passage of time doesnβt change that.β
π£οΈ βThe level of injustice that you have faced is indefensible.β
π£οΈ βWe will work with you to make sure that the excluded is recognised as one of the injustices that this country needs to rectify.β
You also spoke about financial remedies that could be βfair, proportionate and doable.β
Those words gave people hope, Andy. Real hope.
For some of our members, that hope was the very thing that kept them going when everything else seemed lost.
But the years have passed. Businesses have disappeared. Homes have been lost. Families have been torn apart. Tragically, we know of more than 40 people who died by suicide, with exclusion contributing to the devastating circumstances they faced.
We cannot bring those people back. But we CAN honour their memories by ensuring that this injustice is finally acknowledged and addressed.
Today, you are no longer campaigning from outside Westminster.
You are the Prime Minister.
We understand that financial redress requires careful consideration, political will and public money.
But an apology costs NOTHING.
Not a penny.
Yet even that basic acknowledgement of what happened to 3.8 million hardworking, taxpaying people has still not been forthcoming.
We are asking you to honour your commitments:
β
Deliver a full and frank public apology
β
Meet with ExcludedUK, our APPG and representatives of the bereaved families and those who survived suicide attempts
β
Work with us towards a fair, proportionate and achievable financial remedy
β
Recognise the devastating and continuing consequences of exclusion
Andy, you once told us that the passage of time does not change the injustice. We agree.
We haven't forgotten your words, and we haven't given up on you.
Please don't give up on us.
π₯ WATCH THE VIDEO. LISTEN TO YOUR OWN WORDS. REMEMBER THE PEOPLE YOU PROMISED TO HELP.
youtu.be/Yjm6ag4m1xI
Dutifully paid in. Deliberately left out.
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
@andyburnham @JohnHealey_MP @ExcludedFighter @SadieMHarris @JohnMartinComic @TonyRobinsonOBE @inkbyboston @StephenLiddell_ @Travelicious_24 @harrisonmaxwell
ExcludedFighter retweeted
We thought only Sunak and Starmer would abandon #ExcludedUK. @andyburnham championed financial restitution for 3.8 million citizens. Now, as PM, he just ghosts us. After years of dire hardship, are we to believe @UKLabour has also abandoned us too @KemiBadenoch
@Frances_Coppola??
Mayor of Greater Manchester @AndyBurnhamGM tells @AlexisConran on times.radio it is "unforgivable" that the government is "continuing to ignore" the three million #Excluded
ExcludedFighter retweeted
This Budget was @andyburnhamβs moment to deliver on years of campaigning for financial restitution.
HE DUCKED IT. As Sir Graham Brady knows, 3.8m #ExcludedUK are kicked further down the road, and your excluded in #Faversham #Kent feel abandoned and gaslighted
@Frances_Coppola
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/petitβ¦
There are over 20 categories of exclusions including:
Β·New starters
Β·New Businesses
Β·PAYE freelancers
Β·Newly self-employed
Β·Those denied furlough
Β·Directors paid in Dividends
Β·Directors paid PAYE Annually
Β·Made redundant before 19 Mar 2020
Β·Directors of Companies not in Profit
Β·Self-employed with +Β£50k trading profits
Β·Businesses ineligible for Business Grants
Β·Those in maternity/parental/adoption leave
Β·Those earning less than 50% income from self-employment
Β·Those whose personal circumstances have affected entitlement to support e.g. pensions, bereavement allowance, carerβs allowance, students, armed forces veteransβ¦ and moreβ¦
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
How are so many of the 3.8 million #ExcludedUK already on their knees after years of hardship, supposed to survive another government abandoning them? How much more can they take? Their families, livelihoods and futures matter. It's time they listen @paullewismoney.
@ExcludedUK
π’ #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.
π₯ 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.
π© Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
π© Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
π 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.
π₯ 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:
β #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
β #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
β #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
Our members in #Plympton #Plymstock #Ivybridge #Plymouth deserve better.
I challenged Emma on #
Budget Day for those #ExcludedUK financially ruined. Unlike Darren Jones and Sir Graham Brady she just walked by
Will you now stand with @ExcludedUK Rebecca?
nitter.cf/ExcludedUK/status/2112β¦
π’ #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.
π₯ 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.
π© Our emails and messages to Andy Burnham have gone unanswered.
π© Our correspondence to Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP has also failed to secure the answers and action we have been seeking.
π 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.
π₯ 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:
β #IsItOK to promise hope to millions of people and then leave them waiting when you finally have the power to deliver?
β #IsItOK to acknowledge the devastating human cost of exclusion but still fail to provide even a public apology?
β #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
Absolutely it is. They should claw the money back from any assets and give it to those millions who were #Excluded from any financial support, deliberately by @RishiSunak Give it to @ExcludedUK @ForgottenLtd @ExcludedFighter etc. A total scam it was!
ExcludedFighter retweeted
THIS π π π π is what HAS to happen in this country!!!
Add #excludedukscandal to that list!
@andyburnham totally #ghosting 3.8 MILLION #excludeduk hardworking taxpayers at the moment!
@ExcludedUK @ExcludedFighter @susannareid100 @GMB @SkyNews @LBC
From #PostOffice #Horizon to the #LoanCharge: Why History Is Repeating Itself, and Why Only a Judge-Led Inquiry Can Break the Cycle.
#PostOfficeScandal
#LoanChargeScandal
#STOPtheLoanCharge
#STOPtheSuicides
#SaveLives
@andyburnham
@JohnHealey_MP
@10DowningStreet
linkedin.com/pulse/from-postβ¦
ExcludedFighter retweeted
After 4 years campaigning on Twitter, outside Parliament and political Conferences for the #ExcludedUK abandoned by Rishi Sunak, you have made my day @susannareid100 @edballs @Kevin_Maguire
We need justice, and we need it now!
#ExcludedScandal #SpeakOutToHelpOut
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Hi @susannareid100 @Rose_nug @ITV @PA
On the 4th Anniversary of Rishi Sunak throwing the #ExcludedUK to the wolves, and in memory of 37 so far who have taken their own lives, please shine a spotlight on this horrific and on-going injustice
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@ExcludedUK
ExcludedFighter retweeted
Thank you so much @susannareid100 π for highlighting the scandal of the #ExcludedUK. 3.8 million were deliberately excluded by Sunak from any COVID support (furlough &/or SEISS) We are still on our knees crawling trying to survive. Pls keep shouting for us. We need help! ππ
ExcludedFighter retweeted
It was great to speak with you again at Parliament today @Kevin_Maguire, where we discussed the new #ExcludedUK APPG formed by @switherdenMP @MP4Stratford @gregsmith_uk @ApsanaBegumMP amongst others, and with @GMB help again, we can get other MP'S to join.
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Through the pandemic, the Tory Govt excluded nearly 4 million self-employed people and other workers from financial support. This cost lives and livelihoods.π·π‘
Today, I asked the Leader of the House for a debate to seek justice for the @ExcludedUK
ExcludedFighter retweeted
@andyburnham indeed a 'moral failing' as you have said. Surely now as PM you have a Moral Duty to rectify it? You stood with the #ExcludedUK whilst @RushiSunak the @Conservatives ignored us..... you listened then. PLEASE don't ignore us now.