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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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....
Bounce Back Loans and the Excluded Sunak’s Covid 19 Inquiry Evidence on 16 December 2025
Excluded from grants and left with debt. Sunak’s UK Covid 19 Inquiry evidence reveals how Bounce Back Loans replaced support for millions.
Rishi Sunak Evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Module 9 Economic Response 15 December 2025
Rishi Sunak's Evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 9 Economic Response 15 December 2025 Context from the Excluded community perspective From...
Assessment of Kate Forbes’ Performance, Advocacy for Scotland, and Implications for Excluded Taxpayers | UK Covid-19 Inquiry
Kate Forbes’ Evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Module 9 Economic Response 3 December 2025  Kate Forbes, appearing before the UK Covid-19 Inquiry...
What the TUC Told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry: “The Gaps Were Known and Too Many Were Left Behind”
On 24th November 2025;- When the UK Covid-19 Inquiry opened Module 9 examining the Economic Response to the pandemic one of the clearest and most...
What Geoffrey Mitchell KC Told the Inquiry About Scotland’s Economic Response to Covid-19
When the UK Covid-19 Inquiry opened its hearing yesterday, 24th November 2025, for Module 9 focusing on the pandemic’s Economic Response by the UK...
When Grassroots Becomes Gatekeeping: Why Self Awarded Titles Have No Place in Community Groups
In genuine grassroots community groups, everyone should stand on equal ground united by shared purpose, not separated by hierarchy. Yet...
Westminster Hall Debates – Allocation
While we wait for that FoI on debate allocation and 'backlog' we have done some digging of our own - in addition to the proposer a Minister is need...
Six Weeks – A Lifetime in Politics
As Harold Wilson once said, “A week is a long time in politics.” He wasn’t wrong and by that measure, six weeks is an eternity! Over the course of...
Could a Minimum Income Guarantee Work for Scotland and Should We Try It?
The concept of a Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) Â is a guaranteed level of income below which no one in society should fall and it has become a...
Hillsborough Law Statutory Duty of Candour | A Path Towards Justice for Those Excluded from Covid Support?
The Hillsborough Law represents a powerful tool: a legal architecture for candour, transparency, and accountability. For those excluded from Covid-19 financial support, it offers a possible means to demand truth and redress.
In Appreciation of the SNP’s Support for the Excluded -Tim Pravda Heads to Aberdeen
Taking Time to Chat Aberdeen SNP National Conference Those of you attending the SNP National Conference in Aberdeen this weekend: please pause for a...
When Westminster Says “We’ve Got Scotland Covered”
Dr Chris van Tulleken’s Disease X warns of the next pandemic. Excluded Scotland says Westminster must act now to ensure no taxpayer is left out again.
Jamie Stone MP Meeting With Excluded Scotland
Delighted to share news of the very productive, long over due, in person chat with Jamie Stone MP for Caithness, East Ross and Sutherland this...
Is Public Reticence Toward Campaigns Like Excluded Rooted in Unresolved UK Scandals?
In the UK's landscape of social justice, some wounds remain stubbornly unhealed. The Post Office Horizon scandal and the pension injustice faced by...
Support Tim Pravda Excluded Fighter to Attend Political Party Conferences
For more than five years, Tim Pravda has been the most consistent, relentless voice for the Excluded community – the millions of people left without...
Suicide Prevention
Let's Continue the Conversation... We have experienced time and time again at Excluded Scotland, over the past five years, conversations are not...
UK Government backed C19 Fraudsters Arrested
The Excluded Scotland community are delighted that having been labeled as fraud risks during the C19 pandemic and discriminated against by the UK...
Five years since the nation was put into a national lockdown
23rd March 2025 marks five years since the UK was put into lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the five years that have elapsed, there has...
MPs Back Compensation for WASPI
Members of Parliament at Westminster have voted in favour of providing compensation to WASPIs - Women Against State Pension Inequality, after a...
Update following the APPG
Following on from the APPG Inaugural Meeting held on 14th January 2025, we are delighted to learn from Tim Pravda, @ExcludedFighter down in England...
UK Government Excluded APPG
News on a proposed relaunch of the ExcludedUK APPG - All Party Parliamentary Group.This has been brought about by ExcludedUK's Tim Pravda, ably...
Great News from Bar Owners Mark and Rhian Philips in Wales
Fantastic news from Wales! We are thrilled to report that Mark and Rhian Philips, the co-owners of the Why Not Bar in Aberystwyth, have won an...
The SNP Agree WASPI Deserve Justice
On the 4th of July 2024, members of Excluded Scotland WASPI were pleased to hear the latest stance from the SNP on their campaign for justice. John...
WASPI Campaigners at Holyrood for the CPPG
Sadie-Michaela Harris, Excluded Scotland Community Manager, attended and spoke at the Holyrood Scottish Government CPPG for WASPI / 50s women today...
Night Time Industries Economy Report 2024
Our friends at the Night Time Industries Association have shared their latest report on the state of the Night-time Economy today. It reveals a...
Discussion with MSP Maree Todd and Lucy Beattie
HUGE thanks to Maree Todd MSP and Dr.Lucy Beattie for meeting with me today, 17th February 2024 to chat about the Excluded community. We spoke of...
Ian Blackford and Jamie Stone in Support of those Excluded
Huge thanks to Ian Blackford for speaking up today in respect of extending the furlough scheme in the UK during PMQ. Further thanks to Ian's...
Hospitality Businesses Including Nightclubs
Here are details about grants for hospitality businesses *including night clubs* that have lost bookings during December 2021 and January 2022 are...
First Minister 14th December 2021
First Minister's address to Holyrood 2.15pm today, Nicola announced - ÂŁ100M l available for businesses affected by new restrictions. Mainly...
SEISS Help Video Announced
HMRC are to launch webinar help self-employed apply for fifth grant later this month. Claims for the final Self-Employment Income Support Scheme...
Scotland Support to Build a Sustainable Economic Recovery
Support to build a sustainable economic recovery:- "...up to ÂŁ12 million of funding for businesses in Level 2 areas - including those in the...
NSE and MCC Grant Update 8th April 2021
Update on the NSE and MCC grants, following my meeting with Scot Gov today.People awarded grants just over 15,000 amount spent ÂŁ61.6...
NSE and MCC Grant Update 1st April 2021
Update on the NSE and MCCÂ #grantshambles following my meeting with Scot. Gov yesterday afternoon;- It didn't escape my notice that yesterday was...
NSE and MCC Grant Update 23rd March 2021
Update NSE & MCC - Scot Gov meeting 23 March 17.00Report from Scot Gov is being published 24th March - ie later todayRegarding the calls to the...
NSE and MCC grant update from Scot Gov on the Grant Shambles
Previously, Scottish Government insisted no one who had not been invited to reapply should do so - now they are saying if you have heard nothing in...
Scottish Government Grant Shambles for NSE and MCC Applications Processed by UMi
Huge thanks to these Super Troopers who have spoken out today via Zoom on behalf of the Excluded Scotland community that are going through the NSE...
NSE and MCC Grant Update 16th March 2021
Following the call yesterday to Scot. Gov. about the NSE and MCC grants which was cut short by Joe the new representative that our previous contact...
One-off Payment for Working Households Receiving Tax Credits
A ÂŁ500 one-off payment for working households receiving tax credits was announced as part of the UK Government Budget. Further guidance has now been...
SEISS 4 and 5
HMRC is writing to up to 100,000 self-employed traders asking them to confirm their identity and prove they have been trading before they can claim...
NSE and MCC Grant update 12th March 2021
The question keeps popping up on posts and threads in our Facebook group regarding reapply for the NSE or MCC grant WITHOUT being invited to do so...
NSE and MCC Grant Update 11th March 2021
Update following meeting with Scot. Gov iro. processing your NSE & MCC grant applications. * Requested application extension to 23rd March. *...
NSE and MCC Grant Update 8th March 2021
Sharing an update following my meeting today with Scot Gov, IRO the MCC and NSE grants.I spent an hour and 20 minutes going through the issues you...