Captain Sir Tom Moore #4

[Dragon100]

My friend was a nurse at the hospital and said it was a circus...family swanning in and out when they wanted etc

Also on one ward across from CT, was my dying Grandfather. Also a war veteran. Were we allowed to visit? Were we bollox. I complained, got some generic BS back about how they'd had soooo much thanks for "looking after captain tom" but could "understand my upset". I had to just delete it before I said some things I regret.

we lost my husband's 103 year old granny to covid, we could not even attend her funeral due to restrictions and had to watch online due to the fact we lived too far away to travel under restrictions. She was in a nursing home and even close by family were not allowed in because she was shielded, even before CT was walking around his garden she was not allowed visitors!! She caught covid off a staff member in her care home and had been shut in her room with no visits for 10 months before she caught covid and died. We feel your pain, we put up with the rules because it was the right thing to do. You were also not able to visit your grandfather due to rules (and helping the NHS, doing the right thing etc). It's not right that the Ingram-moores could swan in and out at will, when every one else in the country, with dying relatives (covid or other causes) never got to say goodbye.

I am so sorry for your loss - it is bad enough in normal circumstances - but when you cant visit it's beyond shit!!!

How does she sleep at night?

good question.

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

Hannah and her hubby haven't tweeted in a few days

Just looking at Hannah's official website, she doesn't half know how to talk herself up. She describes herself as one of Britain's leading businesswomen at one point - I know she had an (apparently successful) career in PR, but sounds like a lofty clain

 

[PineappleQueen19]

It’s all coming out now.. Hannah was selling dead rose bushes

Imagine how much of this went on and people didn’t ask for a replacement, refund or put in a complaint because ‘it’s for charity’ and the general fervour around captain tom. I hope more speak out now.

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

Many of us have thought this for a long time. I don't think it was a coincidence that he died shortly after going abroad during a lockdown where he mingled with no mask or distancing looking frail in photos paraded around like a piece of meat.

Good tweet that from Cash Boyle. I must admit I had the same thought initally - we pay taxes for the NHS don't we? Sorry if I'm sounding like a Scrooge but I and others pay tax every month which is supposed to be funding health and social care? I have the same thought when some (usually well intentioned person) goes around at work with a clipboard fundraising for an NHS hospital. Am I being too cynical??? Maybe if we put more pressure on our politicians to fix and fund the NHS rather than going around with a begging bowl for charity, things would improve.

 

[bellinibobble]

They just keep on coming

 

[Tea Cosy]

A week on, there's still no new tweets, either from Hannah or the Foundation.

Before, Hannah had tweeted nearly daily from her account and the Captain Tom Foundation had done at least every three or four days.

Hannah is probably busy having discussions with her lawyer Schillings. A very carefully worded statement (deflecting all blame away from herself, claims of her innocence, how the backlash is effecting her mental health) is probably being drawn up as we speak. It'll probably say "my father would have been horrified at the treatment I'm receiving."

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

Are we convinced he was actually a nice man? Being old, a veteran and raising money for charity doesn't necessarily equate to "nice"

I outlined earlier that I thought it was distasteful to mention in his book that his first marriage ended due to lack of sex.

Other than that, I don't know.

 

[xLJ03x]

I don’t get this country’s obsession with putting certain people on pedestals…..like this man (and the old Chelsea Pensioner who won BGT that year but clearly wasn’t the most talented!)
okay, what he did was great and it was nice to have some positivity during that awful time but the knighthood, statues and memorabilia?! And don’t get me started on that God awful song that he murdered.
Although, he’s clearly being exploited and seen as a cash cow even now he’s dead. Poor old chap. He probably wanted to go inside for his cup of tea at 12 laps round!

 

[HaggisInMyBin]

As “a leader in every field” it’s surprising that we hadn’t heard of her before. Surely as a leader in every field she’d have been awarded a Nobel Prize for one of her many ‘leadings’ by now.

 

[PineappleQueen19]

Seeing tweets like this do numbers is heart warming. Excellent replies too

 

[Orphan_Black]

It needs to stop now. There doesn't need to be a legacy or foundation.

Tom was a zeitgeist moment during an awful period of history. Lets move on now. Hannah will keep it going as long as the grift profits, it's really shameful.

 

[emm]

I am just waiting for a netflix series about this whole scam

 

[WritersBlock]

The virtue signalling did piss me off, especially when The Met started lining up in convoy at Westminster Bridge with sirens blaring, not observing social distancing then having the brass neck to tell people to go away! I mean what the fuck were they thinking?

 

[Flowergirl14]

Hannah says in an interview " he became the world's grandfather".
Such shite.......

 

[lastdis]

I’m sure there must be people around that personally knew and could tell us a few home truths, not just about Hannah and her family but about Captain Tom himself.
I’m quite sure he isn’t the goody two shoes that the media made him out to be.
I suppose no one would speak out because of the flack they would have got for insulting a national treasure

I don’t think he was a sweet old man.

 

[MrsBsDayOff]

The Captain Tom Foundation twitter account hasn't tweeted since 4th Feb. Curtains..?

Well done to all here who trusted their gut feelings and didn't go with the groupthink and peer pressure on the Captain Tom story during the pandemic. You're being proven correct.

There was a strong whiff of jingoism off the whole thing as well, because he was a war veteran. Ffs plenty of others served in ww2 too, although I realise he was one of the last in the UK (presumably it must be in the low thousands or under a thousand) so he felt more tangible to people than say a soldier who died 20 years ago. The family/PR really played up the war veteran angle.

 

[HaggisInMyBin]

“Had he been alive today, he would have been thrilled about the Jubilee and we would of course have tried to have got him there.”

Why? Would he have been invited or was Hannah going to coerce the palace to invite him or was she just going to launch him over the fence?

 

[lastdis]

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We’re only a couple of years away from an itv drama about it where Tom’s daughter is using a cattle prod to force him to walk around the garden.
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we might laughbut I do think he was forced to do it. and Everything else by his bullying narcissistic daughter .

 

[Tea Cosy]

Just waiting for Hannah to release a statement regarding the Queen's Covid positive test announcement. "My father .......

 

[HollyGolightly]