I’m sorry but I won’t be clapping at 6pm.
Not because I don’t like or respect Capt Tom but because I think it’s shameful how the poor chap has been hawked around and used, possibly with or without his full understanding and blessing... ultimately leading to his sad demise.
Ey?
Right, I can't get on board with this argument whatsoever, it's boring and just incorrect.
He decided to do a nice thing. Good on him. He wanted to try and help in his own way. It caught on in the middle of something we have never seen in our lifetime and likely will never see again. Not even Tom was here for the last pandemic.
People decided to donate, and that money went to the NHS Charities Trust. It did not 'fund the NHS', the government weren't ringing round old people's homes to get anybody who could still walk to do laps of the garden so they could buy some ventilators.
He was only 'hawked around' because back in March it was frankly one of the only good news stories there was. And it was a story. It was amazing what he did and how people decided to support him in their own way.
As for 'ultimately leading to his demise'. He was 100. I don't think him walking those laps in his garden finished him off.
Do I think clapping for the bloke at 6pm is gonna make a bit of difference? No I don't, but if people want to clap, let them clap.
The NHS wasn't going to run out of money if Captain Tom hadn't have walked in the garden. He didn't 'need' to do anything. He chose to do it, and there's a big difference.