Excluded Unity Alliance
Leamington Spa, England
Joined October 2011
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Anthony Powell retweeted
Plus, Sunak needs to be remembered not for ‘generous’ furlough, but for deliberately denying it to 3.8 million taxpayers.
He refused to fix the ‘gaps’ in support, ignored @ExcludedUK & the largest APPG in history & cost homes, life savings, retirement plans & LIVES.
@andyburnham
Anthony Powell retweeted
@RishiSunak promised no one would be left behind. Yet 3.8m #ExcludedUK received £0 Covid support and now in dire hardship, so our members in #BuryStEdmunds now lean on you Peter to join the @APPGGapsSupport and hold @AndyBurnham to his pledge of redress.
@buryfree @ExcludedUK
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
Anthony Powell retweeted
Emma. Years on and lives are still hanging by a knife edge. Before becoming PM @andyburnham called for restitution but now the silence hurts, so can your #ExcludedUK constituents in #SouthShields count on you to attend the vital @APPGGapsSupport EGM on Budget Day?
@ExcludedUK
Through the pandemic, the Tory Govt excluded nearly 4 million self-employed people and other workers from financial support. This cost lives and livelihoods.😷😡
Today, I asked the Leader of the House for a debate to seek justice for the @ExcludedUK
Anthony Powell retweeted
Darren. After our very constructive talk at the Labour Conf, Can your #ExcludedUK folk in #Bristol count on you to join @APPGGapsSupport?
@MartinSLewis was right as businesses are failing daily, jobs lost & an extra burden on @DWPgovuk welfare state and the @hmtreasury coffers.
🗣”[they] may well become a burden on the welfare state, through no fault of their own but because of short-sighted policy making.”
@MartinSLewis tells @TherealNihal about workers who have been excluded from financial aid from the government.
Listen on @BBCSounds
Anthony Powell retweeted
@andyburnham your silence in this is now becoming offensive.
You KNOW our plight.
You KNOW many have taken their life because of the stress of financial abandonment in the pandemic by previous government.
You KNOW more may follow, having suffered increasing costs of living across the board, on top of paying off unavoidable debts we had to take on to get through the crisis.
You KNOW you promised help.
You KNOW you gave us **HOPE** when all others were looking the other way.
You KNOW you can help us.
WILL YOU…?
@UKLabour @labourpress @LabourfutureUK @darrenpjones @EdwardJDavey @LibDems @LibDemsinBiz @MartinSLewis @StepChange @MindCharity
#ExcludedUK
@bbcquestiontime @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News
Well, you only need to ask the #ExcludedUK. After years of @andyburnham standing with us, all we hear now from him as PM is deafening silence.
We trusted him after FOUR PMs before him failed us. But now all of our pleas go unanswered so that trust is NOW shattered.
@ExcludedUK
Anthony Powell retweeted
And…
Also nerved families among @ExcludedUK ;
FYI Sunak should be remembered not for ‘generous’ lockdown furlough, but for deliberately DENYING it to 3.8 MILLION taxpayers who followed rules to stop work/close businesses.
He refused to change the policy choices which created ‘gaps’ in support.
He ignored campaign group @ExcludedUK who have campaigned for those taxpayers ever since.
He ignored calls from the largest APPG in parliament history & financial experts such as @MartinSLewis to resolve this.
The financial abandonment of so many citizens AND dependents forced many into life changing debt & cost homes, life savings, retirement plans, & LIVES (at least 40 have taken their own life that we KNOW OF).
@andyburnham did promise to help for a while, but he’s now gone cold on us.
@labourpress @UKLabour @LibDems @TheGreenParty @theSNP @darrenpjones @JohnHealey_MP @AngelaRayner @bevcraig @ExcludedFighter #ExcludedUK
Anthony Powell retweeted
🚨 Years on #ExcludedUK families are going hungry with the children going without 💔. Homes, businesses & futures destroyed
🏚️40+ suicides with 3 since @UKLabour took office. #MentalHealth is at breaking point 🧠. How many more lives must be shattered before @AndyBurnham acts ⚠️
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
Anthony Powell retweeted
And…
Also, Sunak should be remembered not for ‘generous’ lockdown furlough, but for deliberately DENYING it to 3.8 MILLION taxpayers who followed rules to stop work/close businesses.
He refused to change the policy choices which created ‘gaps’ in support.
He ignored campaign group @ExcludedUK who have campaigned for those taxpayers ever since.
He ignored calls from the largest APPG in parliament history & financial experts such as @MartinSLewis to resolve this.
The financial abandonment of so many citizens AND dependents forced many into life changing debt & cost homes, life savings, retirement plans, & LIVES (at least 40 have taken their own life that we KNOW OF).
@andyburnham did promise to help for a while, but he’s now gone cold on us.
@labourpress @UKLabour @LibDems @TheGreenParty @theSNP @darrenpjones @JohnHealey_MP @AngelaRayner @bevcraig @ExcludedFighter #ExcludedUK
Anthony Powell retweeted
Are you self-employed, a small business, freelancer or gig worker denied COVID support? After years of hardship, sign and share our petition urging @AndyBurnham to honor his calls for fair financial redress and equal treatment for 3.8 million
@ExcludedUK
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Anthony Powell retweeted
Its time @AndyBurnham to deliver on your pledge. With winter closing in, 3.8 million #ExcludedUK workers, small businesses and families can't wait any longer. Deliver the justice YOU fought for, NOW, NOT later!!
@ExcludedUK
@APPGGapsSupport
@Daily_Express
@DailyMirror @GMB @PA
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
Anthony Powell retweeted
Well, you only need to ask the #ExcludedUK. After years of @andyburnham standing with us, all we hear now from him as PM is deafening silence.
We trusted him after FOUR PMs before him failed us. But now all of our pleas go unanswered so that trust is NOW shattered.
@ExcludedUK
📢 #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
Anthony Powell retweeted
Like they promised no one would be left behind.
But actually deliberately denied income replacement to 3.8 million of us who were told to close shop/stop work during lockdowns.
Costing his life savings, homes, retirement plans, & at least 40 suicides.
@ExcludedUK
#ExcludedUK
Anthony Powell retweeted
Hang on. How about @andyburnham follows up on his promises to help @ExcludedUK recover from the financial abandonment in the pandemic?
Many were/are small business owners, self employed, entrepreneurs, who had paid taxes, done the right thing.
But were denied income replacement during lockdowns.
Many lost life savings, homes, businesses, retirement plans, took on life changing debt…
And sadly at LEAST 40 took their own lives.
The welfare team in ExcludedUK have save countless more thankfully.
Burnham promised to help back then, and do everything in his power.
Let’s see him live up to his word…
@darrenpjones @UKLabour @labourpress
Anthony Powell retweeted
Sunak should be remembered not for ‘generous’ lockdown furlough, but for deliberately DENYING it to 3.8 MILLION taxpayers who followed rules to stop work/close businesses.
He refused to change the policy choices which created ‘gaps’ in support.
He ignored campaign group @ExcludedUK who have campaigned for those taxpayers ever since.
He ignored calls from the largest APPG in parliament history & financial experts such as @MartinSLewis to resolve this.
The financial abandonment of so many citizens AND dependents forced many into life changing debt & cost homes, life savings, retirement plans, & LIVES (at least 40 have taken their own life that we KNOW OF).
@andyburnham did promise to help for a while, but he’s now gone cold on us.
@labourpress @UKLabour @LibDems @TheGreenParty @theSNP @darrenpjones @JohnHealey_MP @AngelaRayner @bevcraig @ExcludedFighter #ExcludedUK.
Anthony Powell retweeted
Plus;
Sunak should be remembered not for ‘generous’ lockdown furlough, but for deliberately DENYING it to 3.8 MILLION taxpayers who followed rules to stop work/close businesses.
He refused to change the policy choices which created ‘gaps’ in support.
He ignored campaign group @ExcludedUK who have campaigned for those taxpayers ever since.
He ignored calls from the largest APPG in parliament history & financial experts such as @MartinSLewis to resolve this.
The financial abandonment of so many citizens AND dependents forced many into life changing debt & cost homes, life savings, retirement plans, & LIVES (at least 40 have taken their own life that we KNOW OF).
@andyburnham did promise to help for a while, but he’s now gone cold on us.
@labourpress @UKLabour @LibDems @TheGreenParty @theSNP @darrenpjones @JohnHealey_MP @AngelaRayner @bevcraig @ExcludedFighter #ExcludedUK
Anthony Powell retweeted
And…
Sunak should be remembered not for ‘generous’ lockdown furlough, but for deliberately DENYING it to 3.8 MILLION taxpayers who followed rules to stop work/close businesses.
He refused to change the policy choices which created ‘gaps’ in support.
He ignored campaign group @ExcludedUK who have campaigned for those taxpayers ever since.
He ignored calls from the largest APPG in parliament history & financial experts such as @MartinSLewis to resolve this.
The financial abandonment of so many citizens AND dependents forced many into life changing debt & cost homes, life savings, retirement plans, & LIVES (at least 40 have taken their own life that we KNOW OF).
@andyburnham did promise to help for a while, but he’s now gone cold on us.
@labourpress @UKLabour @LibDems @TheGreenParty @theSNP @darrenpjones @JohnHealey_MP @AngelaRayner @bevcraig @ExcludedFighter #ExcludedUK
Anthony Powell retweeted
91 days as @10DowningStreet and @andyburnham is STILL IGNORING 3.8 MILLION #excludeduk hardworking taxpayers!
Is he going to a man of his words? 👇👇👇
@ExcludedFighter @ExcludedUK @susannareid100 @GMB @cathynewman @UKLabour @LBC @MartinSLewis
Anthony Powell retweeted
🚨 @SkyNews: Nearly 100 days into @andyburnham’s premiership, all we get now is radio silence after years of standing with us 3.8 million #ExcludedUK. Will you expose this utter betrayal and now demand full answers?
@ExcludedUK
@SamCoatesSky
@jodymcintyre_
@APPGGapsSupport
📢 #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
Anthony Powell retweeted
🚨 @jodymcintyre_. government investigations are your thing. Please take a look at the #ExcludedUK scandal. After everything Andy Burnham has done and promised, his silence now is devastating. How can this injustice still be ignored? 💔
@GMB @itvnews @peterjukes @SkyNews @PA
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
Anthony Powell retweeted
Likewise Sunak should be remembered not for ‘generous’ lockdown furlough, but for deliberately DENYING it to 3.8 MILLION taxpayers.
He refused to change the policy choices which created ‘gaps’ in support.
He ignored campaign group @ExcludedUK who have campaigned for those taxpayers ever since.
He ignored calls from the largest APPG in parliament history & financial experts such as @MartinSLewis to resolve this.
The financial abandonment of so many citizens AND dependents forced many into life changing debt & cost homes, life savings, retirement plans, & LIVES (at least 40 have taken their own life that we KNOW OF).
@andyburnham did promise to help for a while, but he’s now gone cold on us.
@labourpress @UKLabour @LibDems @TheGreenParty @theSNP @darrenpjones @JohnHealey_MP @AngelaRayner @bevcraig @ExcludedFighter #ExcludedUK
