Six Years On: Excluded Still Living the Damage and Treasury Minister Refuses to Meet
Nearly six years after the first Covid lockdowns, the fallout for the Excluded is not history it is daily life. Following the recent Backbench Business Debate on gaps in Covid-19 financial support, the Chair of the Gaps in Covid-19 Financial Support APPG wrote to the...
Who Decides When Rules No Longer Apply?
Not all states are equal, and listening to this speech makes that reality impossible to ignore. Delivered to the world from Davos, Mark Carney’s address cuts through decades of diplomatic comfort and polite fiction, bringing into sharp focus how power now operates,...
Excluded Taxpayers’ Discrimination Finally Heard in Westminster
Scotland’s Virtual Silence Speaks Volumes 15th January 2026, Westminster finally held a full 90-minute debate on the millions of people excluded from Covid-19 financial support. It should have been a moment of reckoning. Instead, for the Excluded Scotland community,...
Westminster Backbench Debate Scotland Is Watching
Watching Westminster From Scotland For the Excluded Scotland community, this dynamic is all too familiar. It was after all the Westminster Government, not the Scottish devolved administration, that excluded them from Covid-19 financial support. Attention is now...
Toeing The Party Line
The Phrase “Toeing the Party Line” is Heard a Lot in UK Politics… Most people have a sense that it means sticking to what the party says, but fewer talk about what that looks like in practice, or what it costs when it becomes the safest option rather than a...
Inferred Gagging Orders: The Quiet Silencing of Insight
Not all gagging orders are written, signed or legally enforceable Some exist only as implication, tone and whispered suggestion. These are inferred gagging orders, informal but powerful constraints that operate behind the scenes, particularly in politics, public...
Excluded, Indebted and Still Paying the Price
Poverty in Scotland 2025: An Excluded Perspective The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Poverty in Scotland 2025 report is one of the most comprehensive examinations of poverty published in recent years. It brings together national data, long-term trends and lived...
Covid Fraud and the Excluded Taxpayers Left Behind
How Billions Were Lost While Millions Were Locked Out Introduction The UK Government has finally put a number on the cost of Covid fraud and error. The Final Report of the Covid Counter-Fraud Commissioner titled Pursuing Recoveries and Preventing Reoccurrence;...
Why We Welcome the Urban Forestry Challenge Fund
Greener Neighbourhoods Are Beneficial For Healthier Minds At Excluded Scotland, we welcome the latest round of the Urban Forestry Challenge Fund as positive and timely news for communities across Scotland. While the environmental value of trees is widely recognised,...
Bounce Back Loans and the Excluded Sunak’s Covid 19 Inquiry Evidence on 16 December 2025
Introduction: When Support Was Replaced by Debt and Exclusion Became Policy Rishi Sunak’s second day of evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, given on 16 December 2025 as part of Module 9 on the Economic Response, provides further clarity on how the government...