Anyone else cheering on Captain Tom?

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He's a WWII veteran who turns 100 years old on 30th April and he decided to walk 100 laps of his garden to raise £1000 for the NHS. He aims to do 10 laps a day (at 25 metres each) and his online fundraiser has just smashed £6,000,000 (6 million!!). Piers Morgan has started a campaign to get him a knighthood.

You can do it Captain Tom!

Why isn't there more outrage about this? The nhs is not a charity, it shouldn't have had to come to this. I applaud him but its a discrace that it has come to this.

I am! I think it's incredible, £7.1 million now. He's doing more than just raising money.

Oh he's so lovely. I read about him earlier and it made me cry. Feeling a bit emotional anyway today (hormones) but that tipped me over.

I just hope he doesn't over do it!

I agree with @CatBatCat. It is a disgrace that the government can find £10K per MP to work from home but the NHS needs donations of PPE and money.

I mean it’s great for him but disgraceful he feels he has to do it.

The starvation of the NHS is a national scandal, I agree.

I've donated to the Captain's cause, but it jars that we have to do this when MPs' expenses and other wastages hit the headlines.

Our country has to hand out a begging bowl for the NHS, for ventilators, for PPE. It is a disgrace.

It's going to NHS charities same as Duke of Westminsters donation so still govt responsibility re PPE etc.

He's a fantastic chap, he's done incredibly. Go Tom!

Good for him. First, because it raises money and yet again reinforces Yorkshire's reputation. Second, because it highlights the Tories' underfunding. Four years, and we'll reduce them to a rump of impotent gammon frothers.

He's up to 9.9 million now!

He's hit 10million!

No, its stupidly feeding into the publicity overload from everyone who's so desperat to virtu signal their alligence to a failing health care system. This will only lead to the privatisation of the NHS which is what the conservative government despretly wants.

Amazing

£15 million now! And he broke Just Giving (who have also donated £100k themselves!) when he was doing his final laps this morning with a guard of honour ❤️