Reports today say Labour MP Josh Simons is standing down from Makerfield so Andy Burnham can seek a route back into Parliament, with Burnham confirming he will request Labour NEC permission to stand.
Andy Burnham has been one of the very few senior political voices to consistently acknowledge the devastating injustice faced by the 3.8 million UK taxpayers who were excluded from parity of Covid-19 financial support.
He has joined #ExcludedUK livestreamed events, listened to those affected, challenged the lack of fairness, and raised the wider failures of Covid financial support at the Covid Inquiry.
So today’s news that Josh Simons MP is stepping down to allow Andy Burnham the opportunity to seek a return to Parliament is significant.
This is not about party politics.
It is about whether the voices of the excluded, the bereaved, the broken, the still struggling and the never-compensated will finally be heard where decisions are made.
For too long, our community has been ignored, dismissed and expected to simply disappear.
We are still here...minus +40 who felt no other option but to take their own lives... and hundreds who attempted to.
ExcludedUK will continue to work with anyone, from any party or none, who is willing to fight for truth, justice and recognition for the 3.8 million who dutifully paid in, but were deliberately left out. To talk about how you can support our campaign, please contact [email protected]
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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.. https://t.co/1GoANVaqj9
Dutifully paid in, deliberately left out!
Lives & livelihoods ruined!
40+ suicides and hundreds of attempted suicides!
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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
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#ExcludedUK #CovidInquiry #AndyBurnham #CovidFinancialSupport #JusticeForTheExcluded #Relentless #Wearenotgoingaway @joshsimonsmp@appggapssupport
@AndyBurnhamGM@bbcquestiontime are you going to honour your commitment to #ExcludedUK to bring the nearly 4million people who failed to receive any meaningful support in the covid crisis to the forefront? PAYE Freelancers like me received £0 because of how we had / have to work
@AndyBurnhamGM In October I’ll finally clear the bounce back loan I should never have needed to have taken to survive the pandemic… No tax payer should have come out worse than they went in!! Are you still supporting #excludeduk#Nomoreuturns
@ChiOnwurah It's galling to hear you claim to support SME'S and WORKERS while noe turning your back on them. After years of recognising the #ExcludedUK injustice, your utter silence since @UKLabour entered NO10 speaks louder than words
@ChronicleLive@SME4LABOUR
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@KEdge23 Well perhaps @Conservatives@RishiSunak should have NOT DELIBERATELY left 3.8 million #excludedUK hardworking taxpayers behind during #Covid_19! Many of us micro business Ltd company sole directors!
CATASTROPHIC set back for SME businesses employing MILLIONS of people!
It would be good if we could get the main stream media to ask @AndyBurnhamGM if he will doing anything about the #excludeduk injustice if he gets in to office… lots of him on the record about it!! We don’t need another U turn PM
@ChiOnwurah Chi. As you will know as a member of our last APPG, the #ExcludedUK is a huge miscarriage of justice, and with this being a cover-up on a grand scale, your Excluded in #Newcastle Central would like to see you jump on our new @APPGGapsSupport@BBCLookNorth
https://t.co/KPmdkU0GnD
@ChrisWebbMP As an @APPGGapsSupport member your statement about small businesses, sole-traders & freelancers is like a kick in the teeth. So many of #ExcludedUK are now in dire hardship, and @UKLabour GOV have also turned their backs on us.
@ExcludedUK@The_Gazette
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@DrRosena@AndyBurnhamGM Rosena. you was a tenacious voice for your #ExcludedUK in #Tooting to the Tories, so Andy will also want you to join 76 MPs at @switherdenMP's @APPGGapsSupport, and call on this tin-eared GOV to deliver the financial redress that they have long deserved??.
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