“THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN AGAIN”
(Baroness Heather Hallett, Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, 18/07/2024)
#ExcludedUK listened to the the Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Baroness Heather Hallett, present the findings of the first module, the investigation into the nation’s resilience and preparedness for the pandemic.
Baroness Hallett highlighted that the @Conservatives “government’s sole pandemic strategy from 2011 was outdated and lacked adaptability. It was never, in fact, properly tested. The UK government neither applied it, nor adapted it, and the doctrine that underpinned it was ultimately abandoned, as was the 2011 strategy itself”
Baroness Hallett went on to say “I have no hesitation in concluding that the processes, planning and policy of the Civil contingency structures across the United Kingdom, failed the citizens of all four nations”…. “This cannot be allowed to happen again”
Expert evidence suggests that another pandemic is likely in the near to medium future and it is therefore crucial that @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @UKLabour and the entire government, come together to ensure that every single person in the UK is supported. We just cannot have a repeat of the last pandemic where 3.8 million UK taxpayers are excluded from parity of pandemic support.
We dutifully paid in, but were deliberately left out!
Lives & livelihoods ruined!
37+ suicides and hundreds of attempted suicides!
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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.
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://bit.ly/3UunLTY
Thank you for doing this, ExcludedUK.
I really hope we’ll get our justice.
My life crumbled during Covid-19, and it would not have been the case if I had received the same support as everyone else. I was forced to take loans to save my house, and I barely cope with paying them off now. It feels like I lost my life four years ago, and I always wonder if our case has a chance in a class action.
Hi Mike – so sorry to hear your story and we wish we could say there were not thousands more like you. Sadly we know that there were 3.8 million UK Taxpayers impacted by these dreadful policy decisions. As for legal action, when ExcludedUK was formed in May 2020, we began looking into the possibilities of legal action and sought advice from a few different law firms as well as some other relevant sources, specifically regarding judicial review. We concluded that the potential cost involved together with the narrow scope of a potential judicial review did not make this a viable option to pursue, and something that, even if at all possible, would be a very lengthy process. Also, the deadline for seeking judicial review was 3 months from the announcement of the schemes ie. late July 2020. PART 54 – JUDICIAL REVIEW AND STATUTORY REVIEW – Civil Procedure Rules (justice.gov.uk)
With regards to arguing the case for discrimination, the advice we consistently received was that this would be extremely difficult and highly unlikely to firm basis for legal action.
We did follow very closely a couple of other legal actions that were being pursued for excluded related matters in case there may have been an opportunity to pursue legal action on the back of these, but sadly these were not successful and did not progress.
Legal action is therefore not an avenue we are pursuing. However, should any new information come to light such that this could become a potential route to pursue, we remain open to this possibility, but at this stage legal action does not form part of our campaign objectives.