Will you be clapping for the Queen?

[Gingerkittykat]

This clapping has got out of hand now, why on earth should we clap for the Queen?

I do respect her and thought her two broadcasts were spot on but am going to save my clapping for key workers.

The clapping, singing, dancing etc was a nice idea to begin with but now it has become an expectation and if you don't do it you are almost vilified.

Did anyone see the crowds On Westminster bridge on Thursday? Where was the social distancing

Like fuck I will. I'll have a gin for her though

I'm not clapping, singing or doing anything. The whole think is ridiculous self indulgent crap and makes no difference to anyone.

I will be staying home washing my hands.

No

No, I won't be singing for a woman who owns numerous huge properties which are sitting empty while there are thousands of homeless people in the UK, unable to social-distance.

Ben Fogle is a decent TV presenter but he's lived a life of privilege - he needs to educate himself about what's really going on in the country before taking it upon himself to tell others to sing for the Queen.

Jeez, this lockdown is going to people's heads. Hell no!

Um …. No.

Nope, she hasn’t done anything. I’ll happily clap for Captain Tom Moore on his birthday but I don’t see the queen making the slightest difference right now!

9am? 9AM Much too early......

I refuse to go outside and clap for anyone. It's cringe and I don't want to bond with my neighbours. I have happily donated money to the NHS and think they are brilliant. I love the Queen but she can jog on if she thinks I'm standing outside singing for her. As for the whole street dancing at 11am, that was the worst idea ever. Sorry, am off on one now...

No- I hate all of this clapping stuff.

All of this clapping is cunningly designed to make people in lockdown with nothing to do feel as if they are contributing something and give themselves a warm and virtuous feeling. It's a sort of clapping therapy. We can value and appreciate our hard-pressed NHS in other ways.

I'm concerned that raising one group of workers to angelic status in the public mind will make it harder for them to negotiate decent pay rises later on. If you' re an angel or a superhero, you don't expect actual money for real-life human expenses, do you? Applause should satisfy you.

And if I want to wish HMQ a happy birthday, I can send a card. Ben Fogle is wet.

I haven’t been participating in any of this silly virtue signalling, social media driven nonsense. Partly because I’ve been ill with covid for over 3 weeks (hospitalised for part of it) and don’t want to stand on a cold doorstep, but mostly because, as a retired hospital doc, I can’t see how waking my neighbours’ babies helps my ex colleagues- who can’t even hear the clapping from my village.(Our nearest hospital is 10 miles away)
I prefer to support in more practical ways - donating to MSF for 3rd world healthcare, to fight the pandemic in slums, and sending gifts to the staff at my hospital for moral support.

@Bunnyfuller

lockdown for her is incomparable to lockdown for the populace.
Surely it is the same as most old people being in lockdown except she has a bigger house and garden?

Surely it is the same as most old people being in lockdown except she has a bigger house and garden?

Most older people I know don't sit on millions given by the taxpayer, don't even own a house with a garden, have no staff etc... this comparison is ridiculous.

Absolutely not.

He's changed the idea...

Still a hard pass from me.

I’d clap for Captain Tom anytime.

Aww poor little Ben Fogle... not getting enough airtime and attention. I cannot stomach him.

No, I won't be singing, I'm in Wales. My voice isn't that loud.

I wouldn't be doing it anyway. Who thinks up this complete and utter nonsense?

I think Captain Tom would rather that people just donate. Contrary to what people say, they do NOT do both and (free, zero-effort) clapping always seems to have the edge.

Perhaps what's needed is for the donating website to give an automatic - and loud - round of applause as soon as somebody's donation payment goes through... perhaps they could do a 'whoop, whoop' if donation person is also a tax payer in the UK so charity gets the extra money?

Now there's an idea!

NO

Will I fuck.

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe you do know people are struggling to put food on the table right now. Not everyone has money to donate. If clapping for the NHS (not the queen) makes them feel they are showing their appreciation then it doesn't do any harm.

Yes, I know that, Peppafrig. It goes without saying that putting your family first is the priority, why would anybody not do that?

I'm not telling people that they have to donate either, just pointing out that there are swathes of member of the public who talk a good game but when it comes to donating (which they could afford), they don't, yet they'll happily roll-call neighbours to see who is clapping. That's the objection.

Nobody would know here who donates and/or claps.