Captain Sir Tom Moore RiP

[Mation]

What, Prince Phillip ran him over in a white Fiat Uno?

Phillip's currently 99, isn't he? Perhaps we might see him doing 100 laps of the grounds of Windsor Castle before his birthday. Make this a thing.

 

[MrSki]

 

[Aladdin]

Just covid deaths? Any other deaths get a tear?

Was that really necessary to ask?

 

[platinumsage]

Maybe its time to tear down a few of Victoria's statues and make room for someone who lived his 100th year raising funds to help frontline nurses and doctors.
A man with no hidden agenda. Just someone who wanted to help others.

Surely he is as deserving of
a statue as a pug faced mini monarch who pretty much detested most of her "subjects"..

Yes let's give him a statue. Then we can tear it down because he was a colonialist oppressor in Bangladesh or something. On that ITV documentary about his life, he said to the camera that Indians were crap at riding motorbikes because they were poor farmers. If that isn't racist I don't know what is.

 

[mauvais]

Poor farmers as in farmers without much money, or poor farmers as in bad at farming?

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Just covid deaths? Any other deaths get a tear?

Stupid thing to say.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

People on social media are losing their shit. There are now calls for an annual Sir Tom national holiday, and for a 2 minute silence.

 

[Steel Icarus]

They could call a national holiday The Set Fire to Hamsters in honour of Vlad the Impaler as long as I got to stay in bed longer.

 

[krtek a houby]

Was that really necessary to ask?

Misdirected anger. Apologies.

 

[Steel Icarus]

And I'm fine with Hand Mattcock's proposal of a statue to Capt. Tom as long as next to it there's a video installation showing a looped clip of when the Health Sec voted against protecting the NHS from private overseas interests

 

[Steel Icarus]

So how many times did the CEO of Serco walk round HIS garden?

 

[andysays]

Hope Sir Keir says the right thing or it'll be like Michael Foot's donkey jacket all over.

This comment seems particularly prescient this morning

 

[A380]

So how many times did the CEO of Serco walk round HIS garden?

To be fair, Gloucestershire is pretty big and they were busy counting their wages...

 

[andysays]

Since Christmas it's been very bad here and yes, I have been very down and I'm ashamed to say that I've cried every day since my aunt, cousin's wife, 7 elderly neighbours, and friend died.

No need to be ashamed.

Take care of yourself.

 

[Aladdin]

Misdirected anger. Apologies.

Apology accepted.

I'm still very raw and probably too sensitive to post here for a while yet.
Not doing well at the moment

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Apology accepted.

I'm still very raw and probably too sensitive to post here for a while yet.
Not doing well at the moment

So sorry to hear that x

 

[krtek a houby]

Apology accepted.

I'm still very raw and probably too sensitive to post here for a while yet.
Not doing well at the moment

Same here, mate.

 

[ska invita]

And I'm fine with Hand Mattcock's proposal of a statue to Capt. Tom

Has he proposed that really?

 

[ska invita]

This comment seems particularly prescient this morning

Why whats happened?

 

[Spymaster]

Why whats happened?

Here we go again.

 

[moomoo]

 

[Steel Icarus]

Has he proposed that really?

"Health Secretary Matt Hancock said his contribution will be formally marked.

Describing him as an “inspiration”, the minister told BBC Breakfast: “I will ensure we mark his contribution properly and appropriately at the right moment.”

Asked whether a statue might be built “in possibly his home town or where he was born or in London”, Mr Hancock told LBC: “Yes, I do think that we should find a way, at the right time, to honour the contribution that he made to the NHS and he was an inspiration to so many people.”

 

[platinumsage]

Our council are flying their flag at half mast, as are University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust according to their Facebook.

 

[Pickman's model]

Our council are flying their flag at half mast.

It's a measure of austerity that so few councils have flags any more

 

[platinumsage]

It's a measure of austerity that so few councils have flags any more

Perhaps they can dip into their special budgets for the Queen's demise and buy a flag for the occasion.

Maybe something along these lines:

 

[Wilf]

The Pope doesn't seem to have stepped up and appointed him as a Cardinal or owt yet. Disappointed.

Thank God for Piers Morgan I say.

 

[andysays]

Why whats happened?

See the discussion on the Starmer thread.

Maybe I've got the timing wrong, because I was catching up from last night, but I thought Wilf made the comment before the flags thing broke.

Apologies for confusion if not...

 

[ska invita]

See the discussion on the Starmer thread.

Maybe I've got the timing wrong, because I was catching up from last night, but I thought Wilf made the comment before the flags thing broke.

Apologies for confusion if not...

ah yes see what you mean, of course

 

[MrSki]

There is to be a minutes silence in the HoCs before PMQs.

 

[ska invita]

There is to be a minutes silence in the HoCs before PMQs.