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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · 3d

Our petition has almost hit 75000 signatures.

We believe Michelle Mone should not be allowed to influence decision making in the country.

Please consider signing if you support having her removed from the Lords.

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Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage

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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 5d

Our petition to have Michelle Mone removed from House of Lords is over 60k signatures!

Let’s make Parliament sit up & take notice.

Don’t be left out: please sign & share:

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 7d

Looks like Michelle Mone is going to have to sell that yacht

(from Feb 23)

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 A company linked to Michelle Mone supplied £122 million of faulty PPE while NHS staff risked their lives.

Our petition to strip her of her peerage has already passed 60,000 signatures in just over a day.

Sign and share 👇

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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · 6d

Given that this misuse of power and position came so readily to her, we assert that Michelle Mone should have no place in influencing policy and law and should be removed from the house of Lords.

Please sign our petition:

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Strip Michelle Mone of her peerage

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 7d

The High Court has ordered PPE Medpro to repay £122m over faulty PPE supplied under a VIP lane contract.

This ruling is just the tip of the iceberg.

Greed and corruption during the pandemic cost lives, and all responsible must be held to account.

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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 9d

Covid this autumn/winter:
‘Vaccines remain our best defence.’
BUT health & care staff not eligible for vaccine this year 😱

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@longcovidjustice.org
@longcovidadvoc.com

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 9d

Unwell and unsure if we have COVID-19?
Avoid contact with vulnerable people, stay home if possible. 
Wear a well-fitting face covering.
Avoid crowded places + anywhere enclosed or poorly ventilated.
Vaccines remain our best defence.
Checkout blog @ukhsa.bsky.social
ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/25/s...

Should we be worried about the current COVID-19 variants?

As we enter autumn, rates of respiratory illnesses start to rise and people ask how the most common current lineages - or groups of genetically similar viruses - compare to previous COVID-19 variants.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 9d

This morning, the Covid Inquiry began hearings on the impact of the pandemic on young people.

Our thousands of members include parents who lost children and children who lost parents.

But the Inquiry has chosen to silence those voices by denying us core participant status.

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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · 12d

Victim groups in other public inquiries have never been made to apply for core participant status module by module previously.

I am greatly concerned that there could be an ulterior motive for treating us in this way

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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · 12d

Module with a lot of nuance about the various ways that the pandemic affected people. I am extremely concerned that the refusal to grant us core participant status will mean that key details will be overlooked and that the module will be biased to look at a certain viewpoint.

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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · 12d

Participant status for this module and as a result, children that lost parents and other family members and parents that lost children will not be represented at the inquiry in the ways that we have endeavoured to represent people in previous modules.

This is a hugely important

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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · 12d

We are approaching the start of module 8 of the @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social dealing with the effects on children and young people.

I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the Inquiry Team and the Chair have chosen to deny COVID 19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK, core

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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · 21d

Action taken caused no criminal damage or concern and only contained freely available information about the Pumpkin President and his mate the paedophile.

Where are the arrests for the people distressing or intimidating minorities with malicious communications? Drop the charges.

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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · 21d

I've just been made aware that my friends @ledbydonkeys.org have been arrested on charges of "Malicious Communications" for their projection onto Windsor Castle.

It will be interesting to see which side of the line the usual crowd of "free speechers" stand on this one given threat the

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · Sep 6

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 This Saturday, our co-founder Matt is taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to raise money for our campaign.

We rely on small donations to continue the fight for truth and accountability.

Chip in if you can:

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Going up "Norf" to climb some mountains

COVID 19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK need to secure funding to guarantee that we remain effective during the inquiry and beyond.

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MattCBFFJUK @mattc19bffjuk.bsky.social · Jul 2

For Matt Hancock

When you are being asked about the lie regarding the "protective ring" resulting in the deaths of thousands of care home residents, it's not a good look to attack their bereaved families.

I look forward to you recanting the statement and issuing us all an apology

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · Jul 2

Matt Hancock has told the Inquiry that discharging untested NHS patients into Care Homes saved lives.

He says there was 'no alternative'.

We know, looking at how other countries dealt with the pandemic, that there was an alternative.

Lives could and should have been saved.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · May 30

"They had no relevant expertise and were urgently seeking answers to some basic questions"

The Inquiry heard evidence that the consultants being paid millions by the Government didn't have a basic understanding of how testing worked.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · May 28

Where is Rishi Sunak?

The @covidinquiryuk has repeatedly heard evidence that Rishi Sunak MP blocked financial support for people isolating.

That decision cost lives, yet bereaved families have been denied the chance to hear from the Covid Chancellor.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · May 28

Dido Harding has suggested to the Inquiry that spending £3 million per day on Test & Trace consultants represented value for money.

Many consultants were paid more than £6k a day.

The Public Accounts Committee found there was no evidence that Test & Trace cut Covid infections.

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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · May 27

Hard to hear for covid bereaved.

We must learn the lessons for future pandemics: ensure systems in place to support people to isolate & protect others.

This will
save lives AND reduce economic & social impact.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · May 27

Today, the Inquiry heard how it took the Government until September 2020 to agree on additional financial support for people self-isolating.

For 7 months, the Gov had forced many to choose between eating and isolating.

By Sep 2020, only 20% of people were following guidance.

A deadly delay.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · May 19

Heartbreaking evidence at the Covid Inquiry this morning.

The government delayed adding loss of smell & taste to list of symptoms because data 'came from an app'.

Prof. Timothy Spector says this 'undoubtedly' led to preventable transmission.

Criminal negligence in public office.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · May 16

"It no longer exists"

The Covid Inquiry heard evidence this week that the testing infrastructure built up in 2020 has been completely dismantled.

Prof. Alan McNally: "If Sars 3 happens in December, we will be exactly where we were in January 2020"

An insult to those we lost.

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