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Simon Maxwell retweeted
Replying to @AndyBurnhamGM
@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
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Simon Maxwell retweeted
Replying to @AndyBurnhamGM
@AndyBurnhamGM since the pandemic I’ve lost all faith in all politicians. I’m now unable to even vote as I feel they are all the same. We were massively let down but the @Conservatives & @UKLabour have been as bad. You however have stood by us throughout. Don’t let us down now!
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Really hoping @AndyBurnhamGM can somehow become the PM. Along with @MayorofLondon and @MetroMayorSteve they were the man high profile @UKLabour figures to speak up for the 3.8million #Excluded I’d hope that he would put our money where his mouth is in @10DowningStreet
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Can’t believe this is the 6th year in a row where I have no one to vote for.And they wonder why democracy and the system and the country are in crisis.The #Excluded were the backbone of Britain and now not a single party loves Britain enough to value its most industrious workers
Not long till May elections, and unlike @RupertLowe10 saying that the gross #ExcludedUK Scandal needs to be put right, all of the @reformparty_uk politicians still horrifically refuse to hold @UKLabour to account! #EveryVoteMatters @ExcludedUK @LBC @GMB x.com/i/status/2023744487923…
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I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry. Do your thing internet. petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Simon Maxwell retweeted
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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An egocentric guy who 6yrs ago today, willingly signed off his Chancer's callous policy to exclude 3m small biz owners & freelancers from oxygen during an unprecedented event where their income dropped to zero. "F*** Business" indeed. @EdwardJDavey @TheNewWorldmag #ExcludedUK
Boris Johnson has gone from partygate shame to a series of lucrative paydays – with the latest coming in the heat of Miami ✏️ Nicky Woolf buff.ly/97F2Jyf
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One of the very few good things to come out of the discrimination of 3.8 million #Excluded UK taxpayers by the UK Government is meeting phenomenal people like Tim Pravda @ExcludedFighter the voice of those left for dead by Westminster. For 6 solid years Tim has been consistently fighting for redress for those who were left penniless and exhausted. #relentless @ExcludedUK #ExcludedUK
As one of the hardest hit industries throughout the pandemic, of whom we were forced to stop earning a living topcat, myself and another 350, 000 "PAYE" freelancers would very much like to know how we #ExcludedUK ourselves from a penny of support?? bectu.org.uk/news/ive-sent-o…
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“I have people calling me in tears everyday.” It is “impossible” to run a hospitality business with the oil crisis an additional “disaster” for business owners, says co-founder of LEON Restaurants John Vincent.
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we were deliberately #Excluded from the scheme. I faced the entire 2 years alone.I received not a penny of help despite Shielding alone with no income or support despite being classed as the most vulnerable.They didn't stand with me even though I overpaid my taxes @aliciakearns
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With you acknowledging that the @Conservatives made significant mistakes as a gov @KemiBadenoch, this is your time to shine bycalling on @Keir_Starmer to now act in the interests of 3.8 million #ExcludedUK @ConHome @spectator @GMB @GBNEWS @ThatAlexWoman x.com/i/status/2011921764712…
On behalf of #ExcludedUK taxpayers i thank the Chair of our @APPGGapsSupport @switherdenMP for your powerful speech today on trying to secure an apology from the last government, and with the promises of "change", financial redress from @jamesmurray_ldn's @UKLabour @GOVUK. @PA
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📽️ WHY are diesel prices rising so fast? Well, partly because this is the worst oil supply shock in modern history. And partly because of an obscure decision taken by politicians decades ago. My latest mega primer on the economic consequences of war in the Gulf👇
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"This is a party that knows who it stands for. For the small biz owner trying to keep things going. They are also the people who expect honesty & seriousness from those in office" @kevinhollinrake Stop u right there Kev ... it's a no from the 3m #ExcludedUK @andy4wm
From @kevinhollinrake: How we're taking on the hard but vital task of winning back trust conservativehome.com/2026/03…
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Kemi Badenoch is said to have 'raised an eyebrow' at Morgan McSweeney's phone with messages from Peter Mandelson being stolen, although her cynicism at politically sensitive WhatsApps going missing isn't totally unfounded
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Fulham 4-1 Juventus. 18th March 2010. One of the all-time great @EuropaLeague nights.
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Neither @UKLabour nor @Conservatives show any understanding or interest in the small biz sector. Even a global pandemic, the worst econ downturn since WWII, failed to change the mind of rookie Chancer @RishiSunak who ensured 3m were #ExcludedUK @LabourfutureUK @Prosper_UK_
Labour was elected on a promise to be a pro-business government. But, we have implemented policies that have increased costs, regulatory burdens and tax on family businesses. Do we need to think again and adopt more entrepreneurial policies? labourlist.org/2026/03/labou…
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Ditto @RishiSunak At the time of crisis for the small biz owner & freelancer, the rookie Chancer unfathomably decided to exclude 3,000,000 (@NAO) from C-19 support schemes. Put simply: the so-called 'backbone of the Econ' were abandoned. #ExcludedUK @spectator @Prosper_UK_
‘One of Reeves’s meetings described as a “round table with small businesses” included BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, HSBC and Google. As another City source observes: “Only the largest companies are factored into [Reeves’s] thinking.”’ Subscribe to read more.
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on. In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out. To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored. People's work is not the government's to give away. If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!
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Simon Maxwell retweeted
Replying to @JoStevensLabour
@JoStevensLabour nice chatting to you today outside Downing Street.I hope you did indeed have a nice day! My tourists from the USA were certainly amazed after I told them of the different cultures to also bump into @leicesterliz & @Ed_Miliband don't forget to support #ExcludedUK
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