Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @WilliamJHague
On.#ArmisticeDay
We remember all who served and those who never came home. But we must also remember hundreds of thousands of #ExcludedUK VETERANS denied COVID support. Why has @andyburnham turned his back on them now he's @UKLabour PM?
@ExcludedUK
@EdwardJDavey
@JJChalmersRM
"No one who has served our country should be sleeping rough on our streets" says @andyburnham
We couldn't agree more. However, you know full well that among the 3.8 MILLION UK taxpayers excluded from Government financial support during the Covid-19 pandemic were Armed Forces veterans who had proudly served their country, only to find themselves abandoned when they needed help.
Some lost their businesses, their livelihoods and ultimately their homes. These were people who had served and protected our country, yet when a national crisis struck, their own Government failed to protect them.
You have stood alongside ExcludedUK for years, publicly acknowledging the devastating injustice inflicted upon our members. You repeatedly promised that you would NEVER stop fighting for us until justice was done.
Yet here we are, more than six years after the pandemic began, still waiting.
Surely those who served our country deserve more than warm words? Surely they deserve the same compassion, dignity and protection that you are now publicly calling for?
We are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for the promises you made to be honoured.
Prime Minister, what about the veterans who lost their homes BECAUSE they were excluded? What are you going to do for THEM?
3.8 million taxpayers. Lives and livelihoods destroyed. Promises still unfulfilled.
We dutifully paid in, but were deliberately left out!
🌐 excludeduk.org
📧 [email protected]
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @andyburnham
@andyburnham promised “a new economy and a new politics”. That must include old injustices. ExcludedUK asks for an apology, parity of support and acknowledgement of lost earnings. Will he meet us? #ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Good to talk to @iancollinsuk on @talkRADIO today.
It's especially disappointing to think how many of those over-50s and others in @resfoundation's unemployment data haven't received Government support during Covid. Too many of @ExcludedUK have lost out. #ExcludedUK 4/
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @JohnMilneLD
#RemembranceDay2026 We honour all who served and sacrificed for our freedom. We will NEVER abandon the hundreds of thousands of veterans now #ExcludedUK from the parity of support that @andyburnham once fought for, but which he has yet to deliver as PM
@UKLabour @LibDems @theSNP
"No one who has served our country should be sleeping rough on our streets" says @andyburnham
We couldn't agree more. However, you know full well that among the 3.8 MILLION UK taxpayers excluded from Government financial support during the Covid-19 pandemic were Armed Forces veterans who had proudly served their country, only to find themselves abandoned when they needed help.
Some lost their businesses, their livelihoods and ultimately their homes. These were people who had served and protected our country, yet when a national crisis struck, their own Government failed to protect them.
You have stood alongside ExcludedUK for years, publicly acknowledging the devastating injustice inflicted upon our members. You repeatedly promised that you would NEVER stop fighting for us until justice was done.
Yet here we are, more than six years after the pandemic began, still waiting.
Surely those who served our country deserve more than warm words? Surely they deserve the same compassion, dignity and protection that you are now publicly calling for?
We are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for the promises you made to be honoured.
Prime Minister, what about the veterans who lost their homes BECAUSE they were excluded? What are you going to do for THEM?
3.8 million taxpayers. Lives and livelihoods destroyed. Promises still unfulfilled.
We dutifully paid in, but were deliberately left out!
🌐 excludeduk.org
📧 [email protected]
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Recent headlines ask whether @andyburnham’s move towards social media risks less scrutiny. We have a question he can answer directly: when will he meet ExcludedUK and honour his promises to the 3.8 million? #ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @griffitha
@griffitha oh how you must think they are awful, imagine doing that to a small business eh? REWIND to Covid. @RishiSunak ignored and lied about 3.8 million tax payers. #ExcludedUK Many many lost their business/ their home and some took their life. @Conservatives LIED. Remember???
Victoria Alcock retweeted
You understood our financial demands in June 2024, @AndyBurnham.
We still demand an apology, parity of support and acknowledgement of lost earnings.
Why must we keep asking?
#ExcludedUK #Relentless
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @ExcludedUK
@susannareid100 @GMB @BBCBreakfast @SkyNews @LBC
WHERE IS #integrity of @andyburnham ????
He PROMISED to fight until we get #justice #parity!
He told us during #GeneralElection that he supports doable financial redress!
NOW? He IGNORES us!
@ExcludedUK @ExcludedFighter
Victoria Alcock retweeted
"Just ignored."
That's exactly how excluded taxpayers still feel, @AndyBurnham.
You gave them a voice and promised support. Now even our emails go unanswered.
Please don't become part of the silence.
#ExcludedUK #Relentless
Victoria Alcock retweeted
"Barely believable, actually."
What's even harder to believe, @AndyBurnham, is that six years later, 3.8 million excluded taxpayers STILL have no financial remedy or apology.
#ExcludedUK #Relentless
Victoria Alcock retweeted
PM ANDY BURNHAM WILL REGRET THIS! 20 PROMISES CAUGHT ON VIDEO AS EXCLUDEDUK DEMANDS ANSWERS ON BUDGET DAY
Six years of promises, no financial redress and not even the apology he pledged to pursue. ExcludedUK confronts the Prime Minister with his own words as Chancellor John Healey delivers the Autumn Budget.
4 houses and 2 businesses lost in the last 6 weeks alone!!!!
WATCH THE VIDEO: youtu.be/Yjm6ag4m1xI
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🏛️ CONTACT YOUR MPand ask them to support ExcludedUK and the Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support APPG.. even ask them to join by emailing [email protected]
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has spent more than six years publicly championing the plight of the estimated 3.8 million UK taxpayers excluded from meaningful Covid-19 financial support.
Now ExcludedUK is reminding him of 20 promises and commitments captured on video, as the Government delivers its first Autumn Budget under his leadership.
Words of support. Promises of action. Commitments to justice. Reassurances that the campaign would not be forgotten.
All caught on camera. All waiting to be honoured.
For years, Andy Burnham was one of ExcludedUK's most vocal political supporters, participating in numerous campaign events and repeatedly expressing his determination to see the injustice rectified.
Now, as Prime Minister, he has the opportunity to turn those words into meaningful action.
Jennifer Griffiths, Head of ExcludedUK, who personally co-hosted several events with Andy Burnham, said:
"Andy Burnham was one of our loudest and most passionate political champions. I co-hosted several events with him, and time and time again, he made commitments to support our fight for justice.
"He told us financial redress was fair, proportionate and doable. He spoke about the injustice being indefensible. He understood the devastation caused to people who had dutifully paid into the system, only to be abandoned when they needed help most.
"He pledged to pursue an apology. He spoke about putting things right. He told us that the passage of time did not change the injustice.
"Now he is Prime Minister, and we are still waiting.
"Not even the apology has materialised. An apology costs absolutely nothing, yet six years later, we are still waiting for that too.
"Andy, we believed you. Our members believed you. Your words gave people hope when many had absolutely none left.
"Those commitments were not whispered behind closed doors. They were made publicly, repeatedly, and we have them on video.
"Twenty promises and commitments. Twenty reminders of the hope you gave us. Twenty reasons why we are not going away.
"You told us this injustice could and should be rectified. Now you have the authority to help make that happen.
"Prime Minister, we are holding you to your word."
THE AUTUMN BUDGET: WHERE IS THE JUSTICE FOR EXCLUDED TAXPAYERS?
As Chancellor John Healey delivers the Government's Autumn Budget today, ExcludedUK is demanding answers about the continuing absence of a financial remedy for those excluded from the Covid-19 support schemes.
The Chancellor has promised a Budget focused on supporting British businesses, easing financial pressures and restoring hope.
ExcludedUK recognises the importance of helping households, businesses and the self-employed through today's economic challenges.
However, the campaign questions how the Government can speak of fairness and opportunity while the financial devastation experienced by excluded taxpayers remains unresolved.
During the pandemic, billions of pounds were distributed through Government financial support schemes, yet an estimated 3.8 million taxpayers found themselves falling through the gaps.
Many were self-employed workers, limited company directors, freelancers, new starters, people on maternity leave and small business owners.
They were taxpayers who had contributed to the country's finances, only to discover that the support available to others was inaccessible to them.
Dutifully paid in. Deliberately left out.
The consequences have been catastrophic.
Businesses have closed. Family homes have been lost. Relationships have broken down. People's physical and mental health has deteriorated.
Tragically, the campaign has also supported families bereaved by suicide and members who have survived suicide attempts.
For these people, the impact of exclusion did not end when lockdown restrictions were lifted.
Jennifer Griffiths continued:
"We hear politicians talk about supporting entrepreneurs, investing in small businesses and rewarding hardworking taxpayers.
"Yet what about those taxpayers who lost everything because they were excluded from the financial lifelines offered to others?
"How can we talk about rebuilding Britain's economy without acknowledging the businesses that were destroyed and the people whose financial security was shattered?
"You cannot build a fairer Britain by continuing to overlook those who were unfairly excluded.
"We are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for parity, accountability and justice.
"Every Budget that passes without addressing this injustice is another reminder of the promises that remain unfulfilled."
EXCLUDEDUK TAKES THE EVIDENCE DIRECTLY TO PARLIAMENT
Today, Wednesday 28 October 2026, ExcludedUK is taking its message directly to Westminster.
A digital video van is circulating Parliament Square between 9.00 am and 5.00 pm, displaying powerful testimonies from excluded taxpayers, the human consequences of exclusion and the political commitments made to the campaign.
The van is taking the voices of those who have been ignored for more than six years directly to the heart of Government.
The campaign is also drawing attention to footage of Andy Burnham's repeated commitments to ExcludedUK.
Watch the video of his promises here:
youtu.be/Yjm6ag4m1xI
WHAT EXCLUDEDUK IS DEMANDING
Our three demands remain unchanged:
1. An apology from Government so this injustice is recognised, together with an assurance that this will never happen again.
2. Parity of support.
3. Acknowledgement of loss of earnings/profit and consequential loss.
These demands are not new. They are the same fundamental principles of fairness and accountability that ExcludedUK has been fighting for since May 2020.
We dutifully paid in, but were deliberately left out.
Lives and livelihoods lost.
More than 40 lives have been lost to suicide among those affected by exclusion, according to ExcludedUK's records, while our dedicated mental health and welfare team has provided vital support to hundreds of people experiencing severe distress.
"PRIME MINISTER, WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN. HAVE YOU?"
Jennifer Griffiths concluded:
"Andy Burnham once told us that the passage of time did not change the injustice. He was right.
"Six years have passed, but those words are as relevant today as they were when he first spoke them.
"The difference is that he is no longer simply a politician offering support from the sidelines.
"He is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
"He has the opportunity to demonstrate that those promises were more than words.
"Twenty promises and commitments, all captured on video. Millions of taxpayers still waiting for justice.
"To those who have lost their businesses, their homes, their livelihoods and, in some tragic cases, their loved ones, this is about far more than politics.
"It is about accountability. It is about fairness. It is about restoring faith in the promises made by those who seek our trust.
"Prime Minister, we haven't forgotten. Have you?
"We Are Not Going Away. We Are Relentless."
ENDS
NOTES TO EDITORS
About ExcludedUK
ExcludedUK is a grassroots campaign representing the estimated 3.8 million UK taxpayers excluded from meaningful Government financial support during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The campaign seeks parity of financial support, official recognition, accountability and fair financial redress for those affected.
ExcludedUK works alongside the Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support All-Party Parliamentary Group to raise awareness of the long-term consequences of exclusion.
Video of Andy Burnham's commitments to ExcludedUK:
youtu.be/Yjm6ag4m1xI
Budget Day campaign activity:
ExcludedUK digital video van, Parliament Square, Westminster, Wednesday 28 October 2026, 9.30 am to 5.30 pm
Media enquiries:
Jennifer Griffiths
Head of ExcludedUK
[email protected]
Website: excludeduk.org
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
Like the #WASPI women the #excludeduk are finding out that Abu Dhabi Andy Burnham tells a good take to get their votes yet drops them when in power.
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Come on @andyburnham ... remember your promises to #ExcludedUK members and fulfil your promise to stand by the excluded!
youtu.be/Yjm6ag4m1xI
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💜 DONATE to help fund the campaign: buymeacoffee.com/excludeduk
🌐 VISIT our website to learn more about ExcludedUK excludeduk.org
🔗 FOLLOW & SHAREour Linktree to find all our social media channels and campaign links linktr.ee/excludedukofficial
📣 SHARE our posts and help keep #ExcludedUK visible
🏛️ CONTACT YOUR MPand ask them to support ExcludedUK and the Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support APPG.. even ask them to join by emailing [email protected]
Every signature, donation, share and voice helps.
@JohnHealey_MP @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 #Excluded #Covid19 #APPG #PMQs #FinancialRedress #BounceBackLoans #MentalHealth #justicefortheexcluded
Replying to @SkyNews @AliFortescue
As an avid voice for justice @johnmcdonnellMP, what 3.8 million people want to see at the #Budget is for @andyburnham to deliver on his #ExcludedUK promises. How many more lives must be lost to suicide till @UKLabour acts.
@ExcludedUK
@jeremycorbyn @EdwardJDavey
@aliciakearns
Victoria Alcock retweeted
You recognised the mental health crisis caused by Covid exclusion, @AndyBurnham.
Families have lost loved ones. Others still live with devastating trauma.
How much suffering before justice?
#ExcludedUK #Relentless
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @iqbalmohamedMP
You've hit the nail on the head Iqbal, and we need to look no further than the #ExcludedUK scandal. As highlighted on Budget Day, after years of pledges from @AndyBurnham, now he's cosy as @UKLabour PM the radio silence is deafening. Where's the promised restitution
@nazirafzal
Brilliant questioning by @TVNaga01 of Business Minister highlighting the plight of the self employed & the #ExcludedUK who have received nothing whilst not being able to work
Worse, the Minister fails to appreciate that
Victoria Alcock retweeted
You said our voices weren't being heard, @AndyBurnham.
Six years later, we're STILL shouting to be heard.
You once amplified our voices. Please don't let them fall silent now.
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @feli_campbell
Could explain why he isn’t answering emails or messages about his promises to @ExcludedUK.
Either that or he’s simply ignoring us & turning his backs on us, breaking those promises.
What say you @andyburnham ?
This is just one video, there are several.
You swore to do everything in your power to help with the debt & financial adversity many face due to being denied income replacement during covid lockdowns.
Many lost homes, life savings, retirement plans, and sadly as you know far too many took their life. The welfare team in ExcludedUK deal with preventing more on a daily basis.
But not shouldn’t fall to them to pick up pieces of failure in government duty of candour to citizens.
The Tories cost us so much. YOU gave us HOPE.
Are
You a liar??
@darrenpjones @labourpress @UKLabour @ExcludedFighter #ExcludedUK
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Now this is dedication!
One of our #ExcludedUK members chose to have their commitment to this campaign permanently tattooed on their body.
For them, and for thousands of others, this campaign is not a passing political issue. It represents six and a half years of fighting to be heard, acknowledged and treated fairly after 3.8 million UK taxpayers were excluded from meaningful Covid financial support.
@AndyBurnham has spoken powerfully about the injustice faced by the excluded. He has described the level of injustice as “indefensible”, promised to stand with us and said that the injustice must be rectified.
Now he is Prime Minister. He has the power to turn those words and promises into action.
We are not asking him to get a tattoo. We are asking him to demonstrate his dedication by meeting ExcludedUK, acknowledging the harm caused and delivering:
(1) A Government apology and assurance that this must never happen again
(2) Parity of support
(3) Acknowledgement of the loss of earnings suffered by the excluded
Our member has made their commitment permanent. Will Andy now show that his commitment was more than words?
#ExcludedUK #WeAreNotGoingAway #Relentless
@JohnHealey_MP @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 #Excluded #Covid19 #APPG #PMQs #FinancialRedress #BounceBackLoans #MentalHealth #justicefortheexcluded
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @Helen_Whately
After six and a half years of poverty, debt, despair, family homes, livelihoods, and lives still being lost, the #ExcludedUK in #Faversham #Kent ask: will you now challenge @andyburnham to deliver the parity of support he championed as Mayor?
#RemembranceDay
@Kent_Online @PA
🚨 ANDY BURNHAM, PLEASE REMEMBER THE PROMISES YOU MADE TO EXCLUDEDUK! 🚨
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:
🗣️ “The public see you and the public support you.”
🗣️ “The passage of time doesn’t change that.”
🗣️ “The level of injustice that you have faced is indefensible.”
🗣️ “We will work with you to make sure that the excluded is recognised as one of the injustices that this country needs to rectify.”
You also spoke about financial remedies that could be “fair, proportionate and doable.”
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:
✅ Deliver a full and frank public apology
✅ Meet with ExcludedUK, our APPG and representatives of the bereaved families and those who survived suicide attempts
✅ Work with us towards a fair, proportionate and achievable financial remedy
✅ 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.
🎥 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
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @EdwardJDavey
@EdwardJDavey @LibDems
The Tories and now Labour have abandoned us. Will you press @andyburnham to fulfil his promises to @ExcludedUK and save some lives and homes?
@LibDemsinBiz
@darrenpjones @labourpress
Replying to @EdwardJDavey
🕯️At @LibDems Conf, you committed to me to hold @andyburnham to his promise of restitution on a party level. Will you honour that commitment Ed? Our #ExcludedUK veterans and community cannot be left behind any longer.
#RemembranceDay
#Lestweforget
teapaw.org/ExcludedUK/status/2112…
Victoria Alcock retweeted
Replying to @PolitlcsUK
While politicians post warm words, too many now look away, leaving our #ExcludedUK veterans still abandoned.
@andyburnham's silence as PM speaks volumes. It's time for real action not words
#RemembranceDay
@DaveDooganSNP @EdwardJDavey
@johnmcdonnellMP
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