Captain Sir Tom Moore

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Comewhinewithme said:
Just jumping in to say.....I am the guy from the tesco ad....I didn't donate😳
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I'm also the guy from the Tesco advert, except I didn't even do a charity bake off.

What he did was great, and raised a great amount of money. But the daiughter and all the endorsements and things that have happened since scream money making, for her and the family, because no disrespect a 100 year old man probably isn't going to be around much longer to need a vast fortune.
 
openbook1 said:
It would be better if people were willing to pay more taxes towards it but they aren't. I am from the Uk and now live in Canada. We have universal healthcare here too and it shows how shoddy the NHS is. Except we pay higher taxes here.
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I'd rather pay higher taxes and have a good healthcare system.
The NHS isn't the best, as much as we're lucky to have it and it helps so many people it has huge problems that need fixing.
 
StephenTJackson said:
I'm also the guy from the Tesco advert, except I didn't even do a charity bake off.

What he did was great, and raised a great amount of money. But the daiughter and all the endorsements and things that have happened since scream money making, for her and the family, because no disrespect a 100 year old man probably isn't going to be around much longer to need a vast fortune.
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He did a good heart warming thing in lockdown , I genuinely think it started off as exercising and then raising some money. Then his daughter turned it and him into a cash cow. Selling his story wherever she could and getting her face everywhere, that’s not for the benefit of the NHS, it’s for her benefit as his manager. Shes lining her own pockets.
 
Can't tell you how glad I am to have found this thread because I have been questioning Sir Tom's daughter for a very long time. I thought ages ago he was being exploited and that she was far too front and centre of everything. I recall she had links to GoFundMe or something didn't she? For quite some time I've thought the management of Sir Tom's rise to fame was all too calculated and slick.

I can't get over him going to Barbados in a pandemic at his age, that is just crazy to me. It annoys me that nobody is really mentioning it elsewhere.
 
Chateau Marmont said:
Can't tell you how glad I am to have found this thread because I have been questioning Sir Tom's daughter for a very long time. I thought ages ago he was being exploited and that she was far too front and centre of everything. I recall she had links to GoFundMe or something didn't she? For quite some time I've thought the management of Sir Tom's rise to fame was all too calculated and slick.

I can't get over him going to Barbados in a pandemic at his age, that is just crazy to me. It annoys me that nobody is really mentioning it elsewhere.
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Why the duck was he in Barbados?? We are not meant to be doing non essential travel...
 
Chateau Marmont said:
I can't get over him going to Barbados in a pandemic at his age, that is just crazy to me. It annoys me that nobody is really mentioning it elsewhere.
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If anyone dared mentioned it I think people would flip out. Like, how dare anyone criticise him after everything he has done, then you'd get the comments of "He deserves it after the money he raised."

It is BS. No one made him raise that money, of course it is amazing he did, but that should not give him the right to then basically flout the rules as that is what he did when he went to Barbados.

openbook1 said:
Why the duck was he in Barbados?? We are not meant to be doing non essential travel...
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That angered me when I first heard he went. No non essential travel, but put him on a plane to Barbados for a little holiday. It is ridiculous.
 
The Asian man from East London who is 100 done the exact same thing, I think I saw him on the news twice? I guess he doesn’t have a media savvy daughter with ££££ signs in her eyes.

I imagine the daughter as some Mrs Hinch type creature. Soon enough she’ll be an influencer on Instagram and have the rest of the family in on it. The old man having done his job, forgotten
 
Anon_Miss said:
If anyone dared mentioned it I think people would flip out. Like, how dare anyone criticise him after everything he has done, then you'd get the comments of "He deserves it after the money he raised."
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I wonder if that's why the family took him to Barbados with them? As a sort of shield against potential criticism? A very cynical way of thinking for me but I honestly do feel like the poor chap is being used at this point.

shadyessex33 said:
The Asian man from East London who is 100 done the exact same thing, I think I saw him on the news twice? I guess he doesn’t have a media savvy daughter with ££££ signs in her eyes.
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I remember him. I think I saw him featured on TV once and very briefly in a tabloid or two and that was it.

It's all about the backstory with the media so maybe they didn't deem him worthy of the "human interest" angle enough...you get the same thing with missing people cases.
 
www.thesun.co.uk

PM wishes Captain Tom 'full recovery' as he battles Covid & pneumonia

BORIS Johnson has wished Captain Sir Tom Moore a “full recovery” after his family revealed that he was battling Covid-19 and pneumonia in hospital. The war veteran, who was awarded a kn…
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Get well soon Tom. His family putting him at risk all the time has come back to haunt them.
 
Renegadedancer said:
just reported on sky news
news.sky.com

Captain Sir Tom Moore in hospital with coronavirus after struggling with breathing

The centenarian, who had not been vaccinated because he was being treated for pneumonia, "needed additional help with breathing".
news.sky.com news.sky.com
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Now I don't mean this heartlessly at all, hes done a truly wonderful thing for the nhs and I really do hope that he gets better, but his family did decide to take a man who is incredibly high risk on a holiday to Barbados in December.
Yes he deserved some r&r, but who here would take their incredibly elderly grandad on a plane in a pandemic before anyone shoots me down..?
 
I disagree with the comments of people going “why are we donating to the NHS, we pay for it already!” Staff are working in terrible conditions currently and even just a locker that works is a small blessing. I work in ICU, and we are the lucky ones as we have air conditioning and kitchen, while the ward next door has temperatures up to 38 degrees in the summer and no male changing room.

My trust was allocated £80k from the fund. Sounds like a lot but when we are one of the biggest trusts in the country, it worked out at around £10 for each staff member. We were given strict instructions of what to do with the money - it had to be for staff and patients (a tricky one there) and it had to be used on mindfulness and wellbeing. So we couldn’t have a gift voucher as that didn’t benefit patients, and we couldn’t have badges as our uniform policy said we aren’t allowed badges from anywhere out of Trust.

The money is going towards a garden on one of the sites and we are a trust of 5.
 
Smallpotato said:
I disagree with the comments of people going “why are we donating to the NHS, we pay for it already!” Staff are working in terrible conditions currently and even just a locker that works is a small blessing. I work in ICU, and we are the lucky ones as we have air conditioning and kitchen, while the ward next door has temperatures up to 38 degrees in the summer and no male changing room.

My trust was allocated £80k from the fund. Sounds like a lot but when we are one of the biggest trusts in the country, it worked out at around £10 for each staff member. We were given strict instructions of what to do with the money - it had to be for staff and patients (a tricky one there) and it had to be used on mindfulness and wellbeing. So we couldn’t have a gift voucher as that didn’t benefit patients, and we couldn’t have badges as our uniform policy said we aren’t allowed badges from anywhere out of Trust.

The money is going towards a garden on one of the sites and we are a trust of 5.
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The thing is....the public should not have to be donating to the NHS. If it was well run and funded then there would be no need. That needs to be sorted. It's a disgrace the public had to raise money. And it isn't the Tories, is has been like this for decades.

I am from the Uk but am in Canada now where we also have universal healthcare. It is not in dire situation like the NHS as we pay higher taxes, and also pay higher fees for the dentist, optician, prescriptions, and some other things. In scotland those things are "free." Most people have insurance through their work that they pay a yearly fee for which covers those costs.

I don't think the NHS will ever improve as the public won't want higher taxes and more fees/insurance and that's part of the problem.

Gym&Tonic said:
Tom’s daughter had taken Tom along with her family to Barbados for Christmas. This was when the South East was in T4. I can’t help but wonder has he missed his jab because of this?
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Perhaps. That would not be good if so.
 
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