[Closed] Nah, don't think so

Yep, it feels a bit shit (did before imo).

Give us all some ppe and a pay rise thanks (or at least don't freeze our pay)

I enjoyed it the first time - it felt very real and nice to me. That was quite enough tho

I think that is what is known in political circles as ‘misreading the mood of the country’!

That

I'm hoping for a short video of BoJo stood alone, clapping his little chubby hands out, while the slow realisation that no one else is clapping dawn's....

I don’t watch the news much so the first time it happened it freaked me out. Felt like I was Frankenstein’s monster and the villagers were coming with the pitchforks. Had no idea what was happening. Like anything else it got out of hand (ha) when people started screaming, banging pans and letting off ****ing fireworks.

How about funds for the frontline instead?

I refused to partake first time round, just seemed like such a hollow gesture.

How about a slow clap for the governments handling of the virus ?. Followed by burning torches,pitchforks and lots of rope.

It was OK first time around. As an NHS worker, at that time going into patients houses without PPE, my wife joined in and felt appreciated. After a few weeks, it had died down as these things do.

It all feels pretty pointless now given the intermittent shambles.

The best idea was to go for a bike ride, finishing just as the clappers were out. #likeawinner

Got far too political for me last time round, and I don’t see it being any different this time so I’ll pass

How about we all go outside and instead of clapping we shout "fair pay and conditions" over and over again?

As a one-off event it was a lovely gesture. Every week that passed though, it felt increasingly about the clappers rather than the clappees. People smugly feeling they've "done their bit" and there were stories on STW of people shaming their neighbours for not joining in.

I might join in this week I suppose, but after that probably not. It's a bit like having Remembrance Sunday every week, it'd become a chore and lose its impact.

Firstly, I am incredibly thankful for all NHS staff....I know that there's a number on here. @tjagain @scotroutes @drac and others.....I really do admire the job that you folks do.

Secondly, I feel like I 'did my bit' for the NHS by voting Remain and voting Labour in 2019!! The clapping very much did seem to be all about the 'clappers' after the first time. It turned into a real cringeworthy spectacle around here.

Thirdly, I'm now a supermarket delivery driver at weekends so I guess I'm a key worker and thus potentially a very minor 'target' of said clapping this time around. Save it for someone else is all I can say! I feel zero 'pride' in it and don't want or need a round of applause at any point! NHS workers don't deserve it either, they deserve a salary at least double of any cabinet minister and a bumper pension.

How about we all go outside and instead of clapping we shout “fair pay and conditions” over and over again?

I think that could get some traction as an online campaign....

First time round I provided sexual gratification to an attractive local health worker, without giving her the clap or demanding my usual financial recompense!

This time round I'd prefer a 1984-esque Daily Hate with BloJo on big screens, as she has moved and I only know male health workers and I'm not ready for that.

Several of my neighbours got the pans and drums out, even started playing Vera Lynn on about week 3, every week they sat down together and got pissed, just to be good neighbours. ****wits.

If you want to help the NHS, care workers and teachers don't vote Conservative.

As an NHS employee, I insist you don’t partake in the new one.

Can we have a countrywide booing of the government instead?

My wife thinks it's brilliant, get the kids to bed about half seven and go for a 5k run and finish like its the end of the Boston marathon

The first thought that came into my head the first time round was "you'll clap for them, but you won't pay an extra 1% income tax to pay for them"

Massively empty, hypocritical gesture.

I think my girlfriend would dump me if I even thought about doing it.
(She’s a nurse)(She’s a nurse who smashed her rainbow badge with a hammer)

it felt increasingly about the clappers rather than the clappees.

Didn’t think it was ever anything else. Like, in my road, there are no nhs workers...

My wife and three kids are all nhs and would prefer the public just do the **** they are told. They are all tired and frustrated.

I got criticised for not clapping last time by an elderly neighbour. When I tried to explain, I think I caused some dissonance with her mental image of what 'a person who works in the NHS' looks like. I was just back off a 3hr post-war ride, hungry and knackered, so may not have left her with the best impression...

My staunchly Tory neighbours were out there clapping every time last time, I refrained from getting into an argument about how you can vote Tory but support the NHS.

I liked to ride down the middle of the street and imagine that they were clapping my amazing cycling feats. It happened by accident at first, but became quite addictive. 😉

I will have just got home after what is likely to be an extremely busy and stressful day, and there are no NHS workers anywhere near.
And with all due respect, I can’t be arsed.

Not this pish again. They're people not fairies, claps don't work.

A nurse said on FB that he liked it until politicians used it as a photo op.

It seems patronising to me, pay front line workers properly instead.

it felt increasingly about the clappers rather than the clappees

+1 began to feel a bit of a pariah last time, fingers crossed the cold will keep the neighbours indoors this time

It seems patronising to me, pay front line workers properly instead.

This, very much this.

Like many on here I loved* the NHS well before it became fashionable to clap.

I can't go for this though, too many bloody hypocrites up my road, I know id end up saying something. No doubt many of them will be voting Tory again in 4 years, sickens me.

Clapping just seems an insult at the moment. Staying the f*ck inside seems by far the most respectful thing to do.

* I really do, it brought me into the world, then my son and recently his son too... and saved my life in the 90's with neurosurgery. Its *the* defining factor as to whom I would vote for in an election. Basically never the Tories.

So, did anyone detect any clappers in their locality then? Not a sausage here.

Nothing here. Hopefully everyone is thinking of NHS workers and carers every day right now, and acting all time, in small ways, to try and help reduce the growing burden on them.

Nothing up my way, local FB group seemed to reflect the mood here.

Our street WhatsApp group were all up for it. Think in part because they feel they should clap for @p20. We just stayed inside. Lol.

Our terrace street is pretty good about maintaining distance etc. The street behind us, with the bigger houses, used to go out every week, with someone playing the sax, and then all pour into the garden behind ours to play on the climbing frame whilst the parents stood around drinking. Arghhhhh...do you not get the irony?!?