Captain Tom

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To be super fed up of hearing about him?

It's not his fault but the media etc seem to be using him to distract us from more important things. He's featured on the news more times than I can count. He received over 125,000 birthday cards - he can't possibly read even a quarter of them, what a waste of money and paper. And poor Royal Mail having to get it all to him.

There's not one day we don't here about him and now he's getting a plane or something flown over his house. The 28million he's raised is stupid money too - yes great for these NHS 'charities' but goodness, they are all on full pay! What about the food banks and million other things we could've all supported.

We've gotten so used to hearing Rishi throw money around I think we've forgotten how much money that is.

Is it just me? I feel awful. I know he's a lovely old man who's served his country all his life and will probably die very happy and yes we all need some lighthearted news but ffs all he did was walk around the garden.

Yep, he's great, but I wish people were putting just a fraction of the money into smaller local charities where £28 makes a massive difference, let alone £28million.

This! A few iPads for the NHS could translate into the difference between survival and going under for many desperately needed charities.

Yanbu...he’s got a song now and everything. Enough now.

I actually get where op is coming from. She also made it clear it wasn't directed at him.

Quitely frankly this has all been enhk eered by his daughter. He was being interviewed with her the other day. She was rewired questions for him. She then directed her kids to come into the camera angle, completely to the surprise of the interviewers who then felt then need to ask the kids questions. The kids then gave some, obviously, over rehearsed answers that didn't really have relevance to the question asked. I find her quite pushy and she clearly has other motives

But she and him have raised money. Brought some joy to his life and to a lot of people.

I would interested to see where all this money goes to. But I am skeptical of most big charities.

If it wasn't for him and many more people like him you might not be here to be able to moan!

If it wasn't for him and many more people like him you might not be here to be able to moan!

Why?

sorry are you talking about the war or covid?

I don’t think he wanted any of this really, did he. He wanted to raise 1k, obviously did not expect he’d raise 28mil plus have Michael Ball phone up and ask to make a song. I’m sure he feels pretty overwhelmed by it all, especially the birthday cards.

He’s literally just an old WW2 veteran wanting to help out, you really can’t blame him for this.

I think he is marvellous however I wish the money could be distributed to a variety of deserving causes as I don’t think he realised where his money would actually go to

How patronising.

And maybe you need to research it.

And you, along with the OP, can go out and raise money for causes dear to your own hearts.

OP: What is the point in whinging about people’s responses to Captain Moore?

Why moan?

I’ve stopped watching the news now because there isn’t a single positive story on it.And yes, there are positives coming out of this, captain Tom being one of them.

I switched off that one world highlights thing about half an hour in because it was all filler with kids asking questions and the depression that surrounds us all with a bit of excruciating singing from a load of has-beens who seem to think they’ve still got it but haven’t. Ditto that charity thing the other night with the comic relief/CIN combination...

Reckon MN is next.

No-one is allowed to do anything positive without someone coming along and wanting to destroy it.

If people would rather give to smaller charities then nobody is stopping them.

IMO a huge proportion of the MH impact of this is the fact that people seem to feel the need to see the worst in everything.

Interestingly the media are now being criticised for the same - that everything is about having to highlight the worst things rather than pay any attention to anything good in the world,and yes, there is good in the world even if there are bad things as well.

Captain Tom is an amazing, he has raised so much money for the NHS and has offered a fine distraction from the misery. I absolutely love him, he is a great example of humanity at its best - and we wish him a happy birthday.

How many of those cards are infected with the virus?

Well, unless grandson etc are licking the letters or touching their faces, it’s not going to transmit

Bah humbug

I think it all started with his granddaughter/ daughter sending a tweet to Good Morning Britain. They then did an interview and it went viral from there. I don’t think the family expected for one minute that it would explode like it has.

What a nasty thread. Just no need. Tom & his family have done a truly lovely thing 🌷

My local trust has a charity for the children's hospital a charity for the main hospitals and, because it's a teaching hospital, the university raises money too. Yes there should be more tax payers money invested in the nhs, but unfortunately these charities are needed, especially right now.

The charity he's donating to distributes £1m per week on an ordinary day. I find that pretty heartwarming, we just go about quietly raising funds without the red-tops needing to climb on the bandwagon. Because this really has fuck all to do with Captain Tom, this is just the media self-aggrandizing.

His daughter hoped it would. The just giving account is in her company name.

One of the thing her company does is support businesses in business growth.

He is great. The best interview is the one where he spoke about what he did during the war.

But to claim his daughter didn't know or didn't try and use this, is a business move, is naive.

She has managed to combine something that has caught the nations attention, charity and getting her business name included. O had never heard of it before now.

Its a good business move. Not entirely altruistic. And I am sure the walking was actually her idea. I am sure she said it was in an interview. She is business savvy. She knew her elderly father, veteran father raising money, would attract attention.

I also think that we the British are a sucker for a sob story. And I don’t mean that unkindly.
We as a nation are kind people, and that to me is a good thing.

NHS charities together

www.nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/what-we-do/

Money goes to this. I do think some people think they’re donating to a central pot to buy PPE or something

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NHS charities

But the money is going to smaller charities. NHS Charity is an umbrella charity which supports over a hundred other charities, and they contribute one million a pounds a day.

He's probably getting a bit embarrassed by the attention now tbh.

Op what are you doing to raise money for food banks?

Sadly I don’t think anyone would have a hope in hell in raising a similar amount for a charities that run care homes

Kit, regarding care homes, some of these owners are rich entrepreneurs.They are privately run and can cost up to 1000k per week to live in. It’s a business to some people that own them.

I think what he's done is great, but I agree he is being used to distract people from the utter pig's ear the UK government has made of its Coronavirus response.