@Pessimistic
You say, in reference to T.E: "...so he’s been mocked saying he’s acting like a spoilt brat.."
Your sentence reminded me that famous quote. "If someone shows you who they really are, believe them."
People would have to have a heart of stone and head of bone not to be empathetic to the family of Alfie, and even more empathetic to Alfie himself. Despite this, T.E. is doing things that are not only unhelpful to Alfie's cause, they are potentially endangering others. There are many, many parents who are put in this almost unimaginable position every week of the year in the UK. They do not resort to veiled threats, which is what T.E has done twice now. Indeed, in his most recent statement, he says:
"...We will clear the way for the traffic to and from Alder Hey. Its staff shall continue to go about their normal business, and unless they attempt to harm Alfie, they have nothing to fear..."
One doesn't need a psychology degree to see the clear inference in his statement. The argument that he is desperate really only goes so far. What about all the other parents in Alderhey with dreadfully ill, or even terminally ill, children? Are we seeing implicit threats of violence by the mob, or worse, being invoked by these parents? I'm not trying to be inflammatory, but that's what T.E has done here. Many of us have been through awful, awful things in our lives. Many of us. It doesn't give us an entitlement to behave badly. Yes, people might be right when they say T.E is raging and desperate. But, as I said earlier in the paragraph, there are desperate parents up and down the land in hospitals going mad with distress over the fate of their child, but they realise that potentially endangering people on hospital property and smearing and defaming hospital staff isn't likely to yield much in the way of help or positive reaction.
I mentioned it in an earlier post, but someone wise and older than T.E really, really needs to take him to one side and really talk to him about some of the choices he's making right now. If things turned seriously ugly at Alderhey, it's clear to see who would be blamed. This is not to even begin talking about the horrible effect these protestors and disruption are having to the dedicated staff there and the other frazzled and heartbroken parents visiting and caring for children who have no dog in this fight.