Martin Lewis joins campaigners calling on Treasury to help 3m excluded from coronavirus support

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MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis today joined campaigners and cross-party MPs to present petitions to the Treasury on behalf of three million excluded from Government financial support during the coronavirus pandemic...

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bradders1983

🙄🙄🙄

lincroft1710

bradders1983 said:

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I bet a lot of people won't understand that

bradders1983

I like to be subtle.

dunstonh

Are they really still using this made up 3 million figure?

Grumpy_chap

Hey, the 3 million figure has gone up loads now.. we need to include all those (like me) that are not getting a saving in SDLT just because not buying a house now or in the near future.  It's outrageous that I was not refunded the tax I paid to buy my house when I did, especially in the light of the millennium bug going around then.  A bug is a bug, right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thrugelmir

Grumpy_chap said:

A bug is a bug, right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Majority of people rightly put more value on being alive than money which isn't much use if your dead. 

dunstonh

Thrugelmir said:

Grumpy_chap said:

A bug is a bug, right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Majority of people rightly put more value on being alive than money which isn't much use if your dead. 

Dont give them more ideas to add to their list.

A dead person would be excluded from all the things in the list.  So, they could add that dead person in 20 times.  They can soon claim 100 million people in the UK are excluded.

gary83

If you watched the questions and answers you can see that he along with the other 8 Protestors might as well have stayed in bed for all the good it did. Questions were asked repeatedly some quite forcibly and everytime met the same response he’s given for months, he’s couldn’t be much more clear. He said repeatedly he’s not going to change his mind, he won’t be changing the schemes and is Looking forward not backwards, seems he views the collateral damage as acceptable.

https://twitter.com/alisonthewliss/status/1283417032562741249?s=21

barker_maria

This forum is to support and help people @dunstonh and the other comedians on this thread if you have nothing supportive or helpful to stay then perhaps visit another thread. It is a valid and important issue. If it wasn't Martin wouldn't have got behind the #ExcludedUK campaign and joined the ExcludedUK All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) which is also represented by over 200 cross party MPs.

Grumpy_chap

It is not supportive or helpful to give people false hope, and in the majority of individuals who list their situation and state "no help", there is something that could or would be available but the individual, for whatever reason, has decided they don't want that help.  Having help available you don't want does not mean there is no help available.

Journalists are often putting weight behind this because it furthers their careers and helps sales - always good to be 'popular'.    Much the same for the back-bench and Opposition MPs.