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Cando 3 February 2021 4:52pm

As an aside, I also feel his fundraising was the perfect opportunity to highlight this government's shocking treatment of the NHS. Our National Health Service should never have needed charity like that in the first place, but I feel the media in general has failed to pick up on that .

He raised money for "NHS charities together" not the NHS. Two very different things

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Flux 3 February 2021 6:32pm

Cando posted:

Flux posted:

As an aside, I also feel his fundraising was the perfect opportunity to highlight this government's shocking treatment of the NHS. Our National Health Service should never have needed charity like that in the first place, but I feel the media in general has failed to pick up on that .

He raised money for "NHS charities together" not the NHS. Two very different things

Fair point. Maybe he wasn’t raising money directly for the NHS but ultimately it was still money being raised to benefit the NHS (From the “NHS Charities Together” website: “Collectively these charities give £1 million every day to the NHS so that people can stay well for longer and get better faster.”) so I think my point still stands, and it’s still a fair criticism of this government and the fact they’ve allowed the NHS to reach a point where it needs such charity.

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Jon 3 February 2021 6:39pm

I think even if Nurses and other NHS workers salaries were doubled overnight, people would still want to do more for them. Charities like ‘league of friends’ branded ones for hospitals have always existed regardless of who’s in power at the time and think people would always want to do a little bit more regardless of how well funded they are at any one given time.

So I think it’s not true to say Captain Tom was only raising money because the government were underfunding the NHS, as I’m sure he’d have done something whatever the situation was.

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chris 3 February 2021 6:52pm

Just to clarify my position, I was commenting on the GMB music, not the coverage. My post was purely TV presentation-based and I didn’t intend to spark this debate.

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Flux 3 February 2021 6:53pm

Jon posted:

I think even if Nurses and other NHS workers salaries were doubled overnight, people would still want to do more for them. Charities like ‘league of friends’ branded ones for hospitals have always existed regardless of who’s in power at the time and think people would always want to do a little bit more regardless of how well funded they are at any one given time.

So I think it’s not true to say Captain Tom was only raising money because the government were underfunding the NHS, as I’m sure he’d have done something whatever the situation was.

I don’t think anyone’s saying he was only raising money because the government are underfunding the NHS, but I think it’s a fair point that the need for charity reflects the fact that the government are underfunding the NHS and I think that’s an ongoing issue and discussion that needs to be had.

Probably not on this forum though

GJ

GeekyJames 3 February 2021 7:25pm

May be worth noting that NHS Charites together was originally founded back in 2000 when Labour were in power...

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jacob_27 9 February 2021 11:47am