My family and our immediate neighbours clapped alone tonight! Previously the whole street has been out. I have read the reason for not making the clap political, but we still value and appreciate the NHS efforts and i am sure many more people will be relying on them in the very near future. Is it really all over?
The lady who "started" it said it had run its course, so I read.
It stopped here in Spain weeks ago (was every evening).
Run its course.
Zero here this week, and it's been rapturous for the past 10 weeks.
Definitely run its course
Happy to support paying a bit more tax, happy to pay a bit more myself, to see a properly funded and equipped NHS.
Not sure clapping does that.
I gave up after like the second week.
Once was a fantastic idea. Doing it every week felt a bit like virtue signalling so I sacked it off. There were only like three houses doing it in visible range anyway.
completely forgot. I quite liked it - on our street about 7 consecutive houses all came out to clap and then stayed out for a bit of a chat. But I've forgotten for the last 2 or 3 weeks. Oops
It has been waning here for a while up until last week where it was really well supported for 'one last time'.
The street was quiet this evening.
How many of those who have been enthusiastic supporters would accept an income tax increase to better fund the NHS and care sector?
That better funding would include increase salaries for the 'key workers'.
How long before the key worker description is quietly dropped?
How many of those who have been enthusiastic supporters would accept an income tax increase to better fund the NHS and care sector?
in a heartbeat.
We clapped the first week, it seemed a bit forced and a bit of a pissing contest between neighbours there after.
Frankly the job reeked of Daily Mail.
Never did after the first time.
A couple of weeks back I forgot and cycled back into the village at bang on 8.00. Felt like I was in the TdF
The sentiment was there at the start and no doubt many frontline workers felt appreciated. But it's run its course now IMO and one imagines those same staff would much rather see their institution(s) undergo a fundamental shake up and receive the benefits of that rather than a weekly round of applause.
Nope, and I didn't do in previous weeks either. I've been quietly supporting the NHS by sticking to the rules unlike some of my neighbours who clapped every week but still partied on VE day and carried on going into work despite what they do being less than essential.
As for more tax, no thanks, the chance of it going to NHS is low and I'm not sure all the NHS problems would be solved with more cash. Changing social care and properly doing something about the appalling life styles of a lot of people would do a lot to help the NHS and improve people's quality of life.
Out on bike and usually stop. Last time outside the giant Heineken factory. Had to stop sometime.
No more clapping? How will the tory voters ease their conscience now?
Is it really all over?
Clapped out.
I didn't clap once. Of course I appreciate the NHS but I don't have a conscience to clear by clapping on the streets. It is political for me.
In a street of right-wing racists and the Mrs being a nurse we've not clapped once. They have.
I never did it, didn't sit right, potentially patronising, especially once the Tories started backing it.
I did hear it was appreciated tho.
I never clapped. Too busy trying to get my daughter back to sleep after the pan banging and fireworks. I’d gladly pay more tax to fund the NHS though and really appreciate what they do. The NHS saved my son’s life when he was only a couple of days old. Better pay and conditions is what are needed and funding will do that.
Why?
Does clapping help the NHS workers or just make the clappers feel better?
carried on going into work despite what they do being less than essential
Which was well within the rules in the uk.
Nothing round me tonight, has been very loud every Thursday prior. We do have a few NHS staff living here and they've been spreading the word before last week's that it was the last one.
How many of those who have been enthusiastic supporters would accept an income tax increase to better fund the NHS and care sector?
I would happily pay more if it was ring-fenced funds. Could be run like the Police portion of your Council Tax, that would get a lot of support. Sadly we all know they would up general taxation or NI contributions, put it in the general pot and it would disappear into the void.
That better funding would include increase salaries for the ‘key workers’.
Define key workers. That has been used as a label for nurses, doctors, delivery drivers, supermarket staff etc. I've even seen the local Domino's delivery driver with a 'Key Worker' sign in the window!
How long before the key worker description is quietly dropped?
The second we are 'out' of all of this and the new normal settles in. When it comes round to negotiating pay rises and budgets the phrase will be met with a confused expression like you'd just started speaking in Klingon.
Haven't done it apart from once when my kids scout group had to WhatsApp pictures of them all doing it, all my friends family on the NHS don't care about it.
one imagines those same staff would much rather see their institution(s) undergo a fundamental shake up
Thats the lst thing any of us want. too many shakeups wasting too much money. get rid of the market nonsense in England as we did in scotland and just get on with the job
Gawd knows how many "shakeups" Ihave seen in my career. Everyone wasting huge sums of money for little reward. the only one I welcomed was when scotland got rid of the internal market nonsense
No. Too many people near me are virtue signalling to support the NHS in one breath and then declaring support for the current administration. The same crowd will be up in arms at the mention of more tax to pay for the NHS. Clapping is easy and free.
We gladly did for a couple of weeks, until we started seeing social media posts from NGS staff saying "that's great, but can we have PPE to minimise the risk of us dying, please?" The realisation that many people clapping were the same happy to condemn the NHS to years of throttled budgeting left a bitter taste.
I suggest listening to former nurse Dame Elizabeth Anionwu on todays Desert Island Discs. (Iplayer) Properly uplifting, great tracks and hopefully it will make you think about the nursing profession a whole lot more than banging a frying pan.
How many of those who have been enthusiastic supporters would accept an income tax increase to better fund the NHS and care sector?
On the grounds you state? Any time.
Not tonight, Myself and loads did on our road over lockdown though a lass played You'll never walk alone on the trumpet every week which was nice. Though the whole thing did seem to turn into a big 'I'll out clap you' competition with the odd firework being set off ect. We're not bloody American theres no need for fireworks for EVERYTHING.
Not tonight but, I have started going out on Tuesdays and booing for Boris.
Didn't clap once, found it cringe-worthy and insulting.
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SubscriberHappy to support paying a bit more tax, happy to pay a bit more myself, to see a properly funded and equipped NHS.
Not sure clapping does that.
The clapping didn’t happen to make money, it was simply to say thank you. The two things are very much different things.
Whole clapping thing is bollocks. I am non frontline nhs.Ppe not claps
A couple of weeks back I forgot and cycled back into the village at bang on 8.00. Felt like I was in the TdF
Had the same out jogging a few weeks back when everybody was doing it - did a couple of Usain Bolts but God, I wish I could moonwalk 🙁
My wife and kids went out every week, I did most of them. We were led to believe last week, being the 10th was the last one and seems the street agreed as didn’t hear anything tonight.
I have refused to join my Tory voting NHS clapping neighbours Since this shite first started.
Big thing round our way, fireworks, saucepan orchestra, the lot. Nowt tonight.
I'd be happy to see it replaced by the pubclication of voting records, followed by the compulsory tattooing of the word 'Hypocrite' on the foreheads of anyone who clapped AND voted Tory.
Jonathan Pie nailed it for me.
'Don't clap the NHS. ****ing fund the NHS!'
I would of joined in if it was a neighbourhood ‘fists in the air’ Chant of ‘pay rise, pay rise, pay rise’
Dunno. The night of the first clap I was still in Teams calls putting GPS in contact with people 3d printing face masks. I also donated a significant amount of money into a couple of crowdfunding events towards providing PPE. My personal opinion is that most of the popular clap was virtue signalling. That'll probably make me quite unpopular. But I spent a lot of time putting people who needed equipment in contact with those who were making that equipment and my own financial contribution.
Last week was seriously loud around here, just about everyone was out, but I think that was possibly in the expectation that it was the last. Didn't hear a thing tonight.
TBH, I thought it was nice. It's not a choice between "clap, or adequately fund, or adequately protect staff". And I didn't really feel like it was up to the person who started it, to say it was over tbh.
Most of all it feels a bit like another false "back to normal" thing for me.
Clapped the first week, then on the second week I went out with my guitar and amp which just seemed to piss the neighbors off. Stopped after that
Never did, I put it in the same box as a candle lit vigil.
Family members work for the NHS.
